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Developing A Culturally Competent Legal Research Curriculum, Shamika Dalton, Clanitra Nejdl
Developing A Culturally Competent Legal Research Curriculum, Shamika Dalton, Clanitra Nejdl
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Death In The Shadows, Lucille Jewel, Mary Campbell
Death In The Shadows, Lucille Jewel, Mary Campbell
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This paper is about the law and visual culture. Its centerpiece is Parson Weems’ Fable (1939), a painting by the American artist Grant Wood (1891-1942) that depicts the apocryphal story of George Washington and the cherry tree. At first glance, Wood’s image appears to celebrate an enduring myth of American virtue, namely Washington’s precocious inability to tell a lie. Studying the picture more closely, however, one finds a pair of black figures, presumably two of the Washingtons’ slaves. Stationed beneath dark storm clouds and harvesting cherries from a second tree, these slaves invoke yet another national myth, that of the …