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Author: Derrick A. Bell, Jr

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    -WIKIPEDIA: Derrick Bell
    -AUTHOR SITE: Derrick Bell Official Site
    -COLLECTION: Guide to the Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Papers MC.138 (NYU Libraries)
    -ENTRY: Derrick A. Bell, Jr. ( 1930 – 2011 ) Lawyer; Scholar; Advocate (civil rights) (American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
    -ENTRY: Derrick Bell (Good Reads)
    -ENTRY: Derrick Bell (African American Literature Book Club)
    -ENTRY: Derrick Bell: Critical Race Theory Scholar and Law Professor (MasterClass, Sep 6, 2022)
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    -WIKIPEDIA: Critical race theory
    -ENTRY: Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick A. Bell (Good Reads)
    -INDEX: Derrick A Bell Jr (Harvard Law Review)
    -INDEX: Derrick Bell (New York Review of Books)
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    -OBIT: Derrick Bell, Law Professor and Rights Advocate, Dies at 80 (Fred A. Bernstein, Oct. 6, 2011, NY Times)
    -OBIT: Derrick Bell (1930-2011) (Harvard Law News, 10/06/2011)
    -OBIT: Derrick Bell Obituary ((AP, 10/07/11)
    -OBIT: Derrick A. Bell, legal scholar who developed theories on race, dies at 80 (Washington Post, October 8, 2011)
    -OBIT: Derrick Bell: Former Oregon Law Dean, Influential Lawyer and Civil Rights Scholar (University of Oregon School of Law)
    -OBIT: In Memoriam: Derrick Bell, 1930 - 2011 (NYU School of Law, 10/06/11)
    -OBIT: R.I.P. Derrick Bell, Pioneer of Critical Race Theory (Lisa A. Mazzie, October 7, 2011, Marquette University School of Law)
    -OBIT: 'Stand Up, Speak Out,' Derrick Bell Told Law Students (NPR, October 7, 2011, Fresh Air)
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    -TRIBUTE: IN MEMORY OF PROFESSOR DERRICK BELL (Foreword Janet Dewart Bell, Seattle University Law Review)
    -TRIBUTE: Derrick Albert Bell Jr. (1930-2011) (Olga Bourlin, 11/15/13, Black Past)
    -TRIBUTE: Derrick Bell: Godfather Provocateur (andré douglas pond cummings University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law)
    -TRIBUTE: The Legacy of Derrick Bell (Courtney Bowie & Inimai Chettiar, ACLU)
    -TRIBUTE: Derrick Bell was a radical, thankfully: The late Harvard Law professor, recently derided by US conservatives, helped pioneer critical race theory. (Paul Rosenberg, 16 Mar 2012, Al Jazeera)
    -TRIBUTE: Professor Derrick Bell, 1930–2011: Selfless, wise and welcoming, Bell was a mentor to legions of law school students without privilege, ultimately changing the way law schools work. (Patricia J. Williams, October 11, 2011, The Nation)
    -ETEXT: The Derrick Bell Reader (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic)
    -EXCERRPT: from Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (Derrick Bell)[pdf]
    -ESSAY: The Unintended Lessons in Brown v. Board of Education (Derrick A. Bell Jr., January 2005, New York Law School Review)
    -ESSAY: Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma (Derrick A. Bell Jr., Harvard Law Review)
    -ESSAY: Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation (Derrick A. Bell, Jr., March 1976, The Yale Law Journal)
    -ESSAY: Bakke, Minority Admissions, and the Usual Price of Racial Remedies (Derrick A. Bell, Jr., January 1979, California Law Review)
    -ESSAY: Law as a Religion (Derrick Bell, 2018, Case W. Rsrv. L. Rev)
    -ESSAY: The Strange Career of Randall Kennedy (Derrick Bell, Summer 1998, New Politics)
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    -VIDEO: Afrolantica Legacies: Mr. Bell discussed his book, Afrolantica Legacies. He took questions from the audience. Mr. Madhubuti introduced him. He addresses issues of race. (C-SPAN, June 2, 1998)
    -VIDEO: Gospel Choirs: Author/Professor Derrick Bell read from his new book, "Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home." It focuses on how African-Americans expressed their sorrow and joy through gospel songs. In between passages, a gospel choir sang. (C-SPAN, June 30, 1996)
    -VIDEO: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: Professor Derrick Bell talked about his book, "Faces at the Bottom of the Well, the Permanence of Racism." He addressed discrimination against minorities, the civil rights movement in America, and the inevitability of racism in society. (Booknotes, September 24, 1992, C-SPAN)
    -INTERVIEW: "Derrick Bell and Racial Realism": A conversation with Timothy Golden: This conversation originally appeared in What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living by Anthony Morgan (ed.) (Timothy Golden, The Philosopher)
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    -ESSAY: The Man Behind Critical Race Theory: As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought. (Jelani Cobb, September 13, 2021, The New Yorker)
    -ARTICLE: Bell criticizes effects of Brown v. Board ruling (Kira Lesley, October 31, 2004, Brown Daily Herald)
    -ESSAY: Derrick Bell’s Interest Convergence and the Permanence of Racism: A Reflection on Resistance (Alexis Hoag, August 2020, Harvard Law Review)
    -ESSAY: Discerning Critical Moments: Lessons from the Life of Derrick Bell Title Challenging Authority: A Symposium Honoring Derrick Bell (Jean Stefancic, 2013, Pitt Law Review)
    -ESSAY: On Derrick Bell as Pioneer and Teacher: Teaching Us How to Have the Nerve (Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Spring 2013, Seattle University School of Law)
    -ESSAY: How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory: To Christopher Rufo, a term for a school of legal scholarship looked like “the perfect weapon.” (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, 6/18/21, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Many Americans embrace falsehoods about critical race theory (Chris Kahn, July 15, 2021, Reuters)
    -ESSAY: Explainer: What 'critical race theory' means and why it's igniting debate (Gabriella Borter, September 22, 2021, Reuters)
    -ESSAY: A Lead To Follow (Nick Gianficaro, Millersville University)
    -ESSAY: “It Just Means Telling the Truth”: Professor Derrick Bell’s Critical Race Theory (Vinay Harpalani, 11/10/2017, University of Pittsburgh Center for Civil Rights and Justice)
    -ESSAY: Derrick Bell on Class and Class-based Discrimination Against Whites (Mixed Meditations)
    -ESSAY: Derrick Bell and Critical Race Theory (Crystal Hernandez, Freedom & Virtue Institute)
    -ESSAY: Derrick Bell in 1994: ‘Jewish Neoconservative Racists’ (John Podhoretz, 3/09/12, Commentary)
    -ESSAY: Veritas? (New Criterion, June 1990)
    -ESSAY: The Strange Career of Antisubordination (Justin Driver, Chicago Law Review)
    -ESSAY: A Critique of Professor Derrick A. Bell's Thesis of the Permanence of Racism and His Strategy of Confrontation of Racism and His Strategy of Confrontation (Leroy D. Clark, January 1995, Denver Law Review)
    -ESSAY: Obama, Critical Race Theory, and Harvard Law School: (David French, March 8, 2012, National Review)
    -ESSAY: Racial-Quota Fallout (Thomas Sowell, March 15, 2012, National Review)
    -ESSAY: Staring Down Fanaticism (Rachel Lu, 12/13/21, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Purging Whiteness to Purge Capitalism: Critical Theory, and now Critical Race Theory, are fully-loaded howitzers aimed at all the pillars of the system. (Mike Gonzalez & Jonathan Butcher, 5/04/21, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: What Is Critical Race Theory, and Why Is It Under Attack? (Stephen Sawchuk, May 18, 2021, Education Week)

Critical race theory is an academic concept that is more than 40 years old. The core idea is that race is a social construct, and that racism is not merely the product of individual bias or prejudice, but also something embedded in legal systems and policies.

The basic tenets of critical race theory, or CRT, emerged out of a framework for legal analysis in the late 1970s and early 1980s created by legal scholars Derrick Bell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, and Richard Delgado, among others.

A good example is when, in the 1930s, government officials literally drew lines around areas deemed poor financial risks, often explicitly due to the racial composition of inhabitants. Banks subsequently refused to offer mortgages to Black people in those areas.

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) - Derrick Bell, Jr (11/06/1930 -10/05/2011) (Grade:B+)