And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice

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TitleAnd We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
Year for Search1987
AuthorsBell, Derrick [Albert] [Jr.](1930-2011)
Date Published1987
PublisherBasic Books
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsAfrican 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
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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.