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For centuries, private attorneys have molded and adapted these legal modules to a changing roster of assets and have thereby enhanced their clients’ wealth. And states have supported the coding of capital by offering their coercive law powers to enforce the legal rights that have been bestowed on capital.
Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
As ambassadors of aloha, Hawaiian women have been susceptible to the eroticization of their bodies and the insistent commodification of their aloha.
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. And the one condition, it turns out, is money. If you have a lot of it, the legal road you get to travel is well lit and beautifully maintained. If you don’t, it’s a dark alley a
... See moreMatt Taibbi • The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
Her investment of her time and energy in, and even the leveraging of her white privilege toward, the common good is what I call relational reparations.
Kelley Nikondeha • Defiant: What the Women of Exodus Teach Us about Freedom
Even the most inventive, aggressive, and original legal argument is constructed upon that which came before—prior court cases, constitutions, and existing statutes and regulations.
Vibeke Norgaard Martin • 101 Things I Learned® in Law School
who has access to and control over the legal code and its masters: