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Cheryl Harris

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Cheryl Harris
Born
Cheryl I. Harris
EducationWellesley College Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Occupations
  • Legal scholar
  • Critical race theorist
  • Law professor
ChildrenEarl Sweatshirt
WebsiteUCLA faculty profile

Cheryl I. Harris is a critical race theorist and professor of civil rights and civil liberties at the UCLA School of Law.[1]

She is widely known for publishing, "Whiteness as Property," in the June 1993 edition of the Harvard Law Review.[2][3] In it, Harris describes the white racial identity and the value it confers in a slave society.[4]

Harris is also the mother of American rapper, songwriter and record producer, Earl Sweatshirt.[5]

Early life

Harris received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1973 and her law degree from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1978.[2]

References

  1. ^ "UCLA protests LAPD using Jackie Robinson stadium for protest arrest processing". Los Angeles Times. 2020-06-03. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  2. ^ a b Warren, James. "WHITENESS AS PROPERTY". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  3. ^ Harris, Cheryl I. (1993). "Whiteness as Property". Harvard Law Review. 106 (8): 1707–1791. doi:10.2307/1341787. ISSN 0017-811X. JSTOR 1341787.
  4. ^ Bouie, Jamelle (2020-05-08). "Opinion | The Anti-Lockdown Protesters Have a Twisted Conception of Liberty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  5. ^ "Earl Sweatshirt's Talk With His Mother at MOCA in L.A.: 5 Things We Learned". Billboard. 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2020-06-03.