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A distinguished legal scholar and civil rights activist employs a series of dramatic fables and dialogues to probe the foundations of America's racial attitudes and raise disturbing questions about th
List of contents
* Introduction The Legal Hurdles To Racial Justice * Prologue to Part I * The Real Status of Blacks Today * The Benefits to Whites of Civil Rights Litigation * The Racial Limitation on Black Voting Power * Neither Separate Schools Nor Mixed Schools * The Racial Barrier to Reparations * The Unspoken Limit on Affirmative Action * The Declining Importance of the Equal-Protection Clause The Social Affliction Of Racism * Prologue to Part II * The Race-Charged Relationship of Black Men and Black Women * The Right to Decolonize Black Minds Divining A Nations Salvation * Prologue to Part III * Salvation for All: The Ultimate Civil Rights Strategy
About the author
Derrick Bell (1930-2011) was a civil rights attorney, pioneering legal scholar, professor, and political activist. A full-time visiting professor at New York University Law School for over two decades, he was previously the first tenured African American professor on the faculty of Harvard Law School and the first African American dean of the University of Oregon School of Law. He is also the author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well and several other books.
Summary
The author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well and “the man behind critical race theory” (New Yorker) offers an imaginative investigation of American race relations and the difficult struggle for racial justice.
In And We Are Not Saved, legal scholar and civil rights activist Derrick Bell calls for a deeper understanding of how white supremacy functions in the United States. Bell challenges the idea that significant social, political, and economic progress was achieved by the civil rights movement in the wake of the 1954 Brown v. Board decision. Through a series of fables and dramatic dialogues modeled on the grim fairytales of the eighteenth century, Bell explains the true pervasiveness of racial oppression within the American legal system. Racial inequality, he argues, is an integral part of American law and society, and it cannot be easily reversed through legislation.
Hailed as “fascinating” (New York Times Book Review) and “daring” (Washington Post), this is a landmark work in the study of race in America.
