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Law School Rankings And The Impossibility Of Anti-Racism, Rory D. Bahadur
Law School Rankings And The Impossibility Of Anti-Racism, Rory D. Bahadur
St. Mary's Law Journal
This Article uses the U.S. News law school rankings to illustrate how powerful, invisible, and stubborn systemic racism is. This Article does not level allegations of intentionally blameworthy conduct at U.S. News, or any person or entity. More broadly, this Article does not address conscious and deliberate racism, or the examples of this type of racism with which America’s history is replete. Nor is this Article attempting to undervalue the significant impact of deliberately racist actions in American history on the economic disparity between white people and people of color.
Instead, I make an untrue assumption: All Americans of every …