Cheryl Harris

Biography

Cheryl Irene Harris is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist. She is a professor of civil rights and civil liberties and the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. Harris gained national recognition with her paper, "Whiteness as Property", published in the June 1993 edition of the Harvard Law Review, which argues that "the law has come to embody and legitimize benefits that accrue to citizens just because they’re white" and examines how white racial identity operates as a legally protected form of value.

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