Thursday, October 6, 2011

Derrick Bell, Pioneering Harvard Law Professor, Dies at 80 - NYTimes.com

Confronting Authority book jacket
Derrick Bell, a legal scholar who saw persistent racism in America and sought to expose it through books, articles and provocative career moves — he gave up a Harvard Law School professorship to protest the school’s hiring practices — died on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Derrick Bell, Pioneering Harvard Law Professor, Dies at 80 - NYTimes.com, Oct. 6, 2011.

Check out some of Bell's work:

  • The Derrick Bell Reader (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds.) KF4755 .B45 2005 at Classified Stacks
  • And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice, E185.615 .B39 1987 at Classified Stacks
  • Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, KF4155 .B38 2004 at Good Reads
  • Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester, KF292.H325 B35 1994 at Classified Stacks
  • Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism, E185.615 .B395 1992 at Classified Stacks
  • And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice, E185.615 .B39 1987 at Classified Stacks
  • Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth (2002) (available from Summit libraries)

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