Intractable Racism Explained

Daria Roithmayr is no stranger to the seemingly intractable reconstituting, shape-shifting, nature of racism

Law Professor Daria Roithmayr spent her career trying to understand and explain the unyielding persistence of racism in the United States. As a child of the 1960s

who was raised in small-town Mississippi, Roithmayr was no stranger to the seemingly intractable, reconstituting, shape-shifting nature of racism. As a high school teacher in Mississippi, she witnessed firsthand the impact of that oppressive force on her mostly black students and community.

While Daria left teaching in Mississippi to study law and ultimately became a law professor teaching Constitutional Law and Critical Race Theory, her experiences in Mississippi and her own roots as a Latina left an indelible mark and an unanswered question: how is it that long after the successes of the civil rights movement, black, Latino, and Indigenous people still possess only five cents of wealth for every dollar that whites have?

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