Derrick Bell

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• 8/7/2022
  

  Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?

  by Wallace Hettle

  An introduction to the core ideas of the Critical Race Theory movement and its founding thinkers suggests the right today isn't mad about ideas, but wants a new and scary-sounding term to justify their ongoing opposition to racial equality. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/13/2021
  

  Jelani Cobb on Derrick Bell: The Man Behind Critical Race Theory

  Derrick Bell's frustrations with the limits of liberal individualism in civil rights jurisprudence pushed him to develop the important critique of institiutional racism in the law.