Document Type

Conference Presentations

Publication Date

Spring 2010

Keywords

Racial literacy

Disciplines

Law and Race

Abstract

Professor Torres explores the idea of "racial literacy " by working through a series of examples where being able to "read" race mattered. Reading race correctly helped policy makers and advocates understand the real problem and helped craft solutions that were generally beneficial by addressing structural defects not just individual bad actors.

Comments

Second Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture, January 20, 2009.

This article predates the author's affiliation with Cornell Law School.

Publication Citation

Published in: Lewis & Clark Law Review, vol. 14, no. 1 (Spring 2010).

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