Unpacking 1619 - A Heights Libraries Podcast

Episode 59 – Judges and White Supremacy with Vida Johnson


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Vida Johnson, professor at law at Georgetown law, discusses her article “White Supremacy and the Bench.” In which she describes how judges maintain and enforce structural racism. Judges benefit from a cultural cache of authority, prestige and as unbiased arbiters of fairness, but they often sustain and amplify racism through jokes, decisions, and rulings that […]
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