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Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell's Racial Realism (SUNY Series in African American Studies)
African American legal theorist Derrick Bell argued that American anti-Black racism is permanent but that we are nevertheless morally obligated to resist it. Bell an extraordinary legal scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose academic and political work included his employment as a young attorney with the NAACP and his pivotal role in the founding of Critical Race Theory in the 1970s, work he pursued until he died in 2011 termed this thesis "racial realism." Read more