Cheryl I. Harris

Dense and sometimes difficult to someone only slightly familiar with academic legal writing, but rigorous, infuriating, and excellent. Reframing the concept of property as fundamentally one of "expectations power" (I am being a little reductive) was super useful, as was the concluding discussion of distributive vs. corrective justice and the ways American affirmative action discourse tends to get waylaid by concepts of sin and the guilty vs. the innocent (sadly still as relevant now as when it was published). Trying to do more actual reading of theory as opposed to just yelling abt it on the internet this year lol.… (meer)