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And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice
And We Are Not Saved The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice Author:Derrick Bell In And We Are Not Saved, legal scholar and civil rights activist Derrick Bell, Harvard's first black tenured professor of law, combines fiction with fact to dramatize continuing racial injustices in the United States. Bell calls for a deeper understanding of how white supremacy functions in the United States. He... more »l 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. « less