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On Telling Stories In School: A Reply To Farber And Sherry, Richard Delgado
On Telling Stories In School: A Reply To Farber And Sherry, Richard Delgado
Vanderbilt Law Review
It is difficult to evaluate someone who at the same time is evaluating you-putting you under the glass, dissecting your culture, laws, profession, and norms of political fairness.' The outsider's task is formidable enough: first seeing, then addressing, defects in the culture in which all of us, including the outsider, are immersed. But when one sets out, as Daniel Farber and Suzanna Sherry do in a recent article, to come to terms with outsider scholarship fairly and sympathetically, the task's difficulty increases by an order of magnitude.'
Empowered groups long ago established a host of stories, narratives, conventions, and understandings …