And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
Title | And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice |
Year for Search | 1987 |
Authors | Bell, Derrick [Albert] [Jr.](1930-2011) |
Date Published | 1987 |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | African American author, Male author |
Annotation | The “Prologue to Part I” introduces the fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw (13-25) who then time travels to ten key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. Other stories using Geneva Crenshaw can be found throughout his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992 and in Afrolantica Legacies. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1998. See also 1991 Bell. |
Info Notes | The author’s papers are held at New York University |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | The author (1930-2011) was the first African American Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he regularly protested the lack of faculty diversity; he then became a Visiting Professor of Law at New York University. |
Full Text | 1987 Bell, Derrick [Albert], [Jr.] (1930-2011). And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice. New York: Basic Books. The author’s papers are held at New York University. PSt The “Prologue to Part I” introduces the fictional African American legal scholar Geneva Crenshaw (13-25) who then time travels to ten key points in U.S. history when decisions were made regarding racial justice where she argues for a different approach and then discusses the resulting situation with Bell. Other stories using Geneva Crenshaw can be found throughout his Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992 and in Afrolantica Legacies. Chicago, IL: Third World Press, 1998. See also 1991 Bell. The author was the first African American Professor of Law at Harvard University, where he regularly protested the lack of faculty diversity; he then became a Visiting Professor of Law at New York University. |