Open AccessExcerpt of Law and Anti-Blackness
Author(s) -
Michele Goodwin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
michigan journal of race and law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2688-5492
pISSN - 1095-2721
DOI - 10.36643/mjrl.26.sp.law
Subject(s) - caste , conversation , publishing , law , sociology , racism , political science , communication
Professor Michele Goodwin’s essay here (and the article from which it came, to be published in full in our Winter issue) explicitly identifies the development of American law as a project of cementing racial caste. This piece is a call for conversation and asks us all to consider: “How has the failure to acknowledge and address the carnage and prurience of America’s racial origin story impacted life today?” For 26 volumes, we have attempted to answer that question. In publishing this story in this issue, we are excited to be joined by our peers in that effort.