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Calavita's Law & Society: (En)racing Law and Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Jeannine Bell
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Abstract

One of the sharpest critiques of law and society scholarship in recent years has come from scholars who maintain that law and society scholarship fails to address the issue of race appropriately. This essay considers several critiques of law and society scholars' engagement with issues of race and uses them to evaluate Kitty Calavita's exploration of race in Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law (2010). The essay advocates the use of “race as process” as a mode of analysis that will allow for greater explanatory power to law and society scholarship when it touches on racial issues.

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Review Essay
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , Winter 2014 , pp. 209 - 216
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2014 

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