Derrick Bell (1930 -2011) was a legal scholar and a civil rights leader. He is considered by many to be the founder of critical race theory. The article "Racial Realism" is the text of a speech Bell gave at The University of Connecticut School of Law in 1991.
Bell begins by describing the legal realism movement of the early twentieth century in the US, which argued that precedence, property rights and objectivity were principles that serve a covert purpose. He goes on to discuss the episodic nature of black progress and then argues for the abandonment of racial equality as a goal and its replacement with racial realism.
Here is a link to the text: blog.richmond.edu/criticalrac...
Philosophers, Explained covers major philosophers and texts, especially the great classics. In each episode, Professor Hicks discusses an important work, doing a close reading that lasts 40 minutes to an hour.
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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