Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2013
Abstract
In this year of civil rights anniversaries, the narrative of racial progress has been tempered by the Supreme Court’s game-changing decisions this past summer. The notion that “we’ve come a long way and we have much more work to do” sounds ever more like wishful thinking in the face of a Supreme Court that is no longer an active contributor to the cause. Having abandoned its unprecedented insistence that white supremacy be upended root and branch, the current Court’s boldness is measured by its audacious efforts to reverse engineer the transformative mechanisms these anniversaries celebrate.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Law and Race
Recommended Citation
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw,
The Court's Denial of Racial Societal Debt,
40(1)
Hum. Rts.
12
(2013).
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