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Cheryl I. Harris is a critical race theorist and professor of civil rights and civil liberties at the UCLA School of Law. Harris is widely known for "Whiteness as Property", published in the June 1993 edition of the Harvard Law Review. In the paper, Harris describes the white racial identity and the value it confers in a slave society.
Cheryl I. Harris is a leading scholar in Critical Race Theory and the author of "Whiteness as Property". She teaches at UCLA School of Law and has been involved in civil rights and human rights projects in the US and abroad.
Aug 18, 2020 · — Cheryl Harris, Whiteness as Property. Racial sovereignty formed through practices of slavery, indentureship, colonial land theft, internment, and displacement determine the boundaries of the proper citizen subject, indeed, the proper subject of humanity.
Cheryl Harris is a professor of civil liberties and civil rights at UCLA Law, and a leading expert in critical race theory and international human rights. She has written influential works on whiteness, property, gender, and constitutional law, and has been involved in the development of South Africa's democratic constitution.
Aug 23, 2023 · Cheryl I. Harris is a professor of law and African American studies at UCLA, where she teaches and writes on topics such as racial theory, civil rights, and discrimination. She is known for her influential article "Whiteness as Property" and her role in the development of South Africa's democratic constitution.
Feb 24, 2006 · Cheryl Harris, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the UCLA School of Law, discusses how she came to the law and the...
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Jun 10, 1993 · Professor Harris concludes by arguing that distortions in affirmative action doctrine can only be addressed by confronting and exposing the property interest in whiteness and by acknowledging the distributive justification and function of affirmative action as central to that task.
