Document Type
Article
Publication Title
City University of New York Law Review
Abstract
This article is one of six written for CUNY Law Review’s inaugural cross-textual dialogue. The author was invited to write a short piece in response to the following quotation: “When you say racism, they say: it could have been something else. Sometimes you just know when it is racism. It is as tangible as hitting a wall, that the problem is you; that part of you that makes you the person they do not want or expect, the part of you than makes you stand out from the sea of whiteness. Sometimes you are not sure. And you begin to feel paranoid. That is what racism does: it makes you question everything, the whole world, the world to which you exist in relation. Heterosexism and sexism are like that too: are they looking at me like that because of that? Is that why they are passing us over, two women at the table? You are not sure.” Sara Ahmed, Evidence, FEMINISTKILLJOYS (July 12, 2016, 2:00 PM), https:// feministkilljoys.com/2016/07/12/evidence/ [https://perma.cc/T39A-28S3]
First Page
513
Volume
20
Publication Date
2017
Recommended Citation
Erika K. Wilson,
The Great American Dilemma: Law and the Intransigence of Racism,
20
City University of New York Law Review
513
(2017).
Available at:
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-articles/1280
