Witnessing an Absent Presence: Bringing Black Feminist Theory to Traditional Legal Archives.

The article explores what it would look like to approach traditional legal archives with a Black feminist epistemology. It offers examples of how ways of seeing and knowing articulated by Black feminist theorists can offer insights into both the way that the law changes overtime and how the law docu...

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Publicado en:Black Scholar Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 64 - 76
Autor principal: Farr, Brittany
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct2022
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Sumario:The article explores what it would look like to approach traditional legal archives with a Black feminist epistemology. It offers examples of how ways of seeing and knowing articulated by Black feminist theorists can offer insights into both the way that the law changes overtime and how the law documents it own development. It also examines how the law and its archives obscure the racial violence within them.