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I hope educators at every level are attracted to this book as a teaching tool. —Derrick Bell, from the forewordGloria Browne-Marshalls Race, Law, and American Society builds on the great vision of the late great Barbara Jordan: How will America become as great as its promise? Black courageous citizens have been at the forefront of this movement. This book is a gem. —Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton UniversityBrilliantly researched, Gloria Browne-Marshalls history of Race, Law, and American Society is bold and challenging; dramatic, comprehensive, and galvanizing. Everyone concerned about justice and dignity, civility, the law and human survival will want to read, and assig (more…)

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“Hirschfeld’s book represents cognitive sceince at its best … insightful, provocative, and very relevant.” – Douglas Medin, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University

“Hirschfeld’s book represents cognitive sceince at its best … insightful, provocative, and very relevant.” – Douglas Medin, Professor of Psychology, Northwestern University Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of (more…)