Ep. 50: Moving Beyond Civil Rights & Anti-Discrimination w/ Richard T. Ford

Dead Pundits Society

English - May 29, 2018 21:20 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB - ★★★★ - 239 ratings
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Joining us this week is Richard Thompson Ford, a legal scholar at Stanford Law and author of many books on race and discrimination. Building on the themes of our Anti-Essentialism Series, we discuss the limitations of anti-discrimination law and the flawed tendency to naturalize race as “culture.” We talk about the Dolezal effect, cultural appropriation, the nature of law, and much more.

You can find most of Richard’s work linked on his personal website: http://richardtford.law.stanford.edu/  

-Many key themes are distilled in Ford’s New York Times Op-Ed from 2011: “Moving Beyond Civil Rights,” https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/28/opinion/moving-beyond-civil-rights.html?_r=1&ref=opinion  

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