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Looking and Seeing, Meanwhile

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Carol J. Greenhouse
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Laura Gómez's meditation on race invites us to think again about where we have been and where we are headed—as a professional association, as an intellectual community, and as individual scholars. Reading these pages brings back the exhilaration of the event: the sense of hearing said something that needed saying, that was possible to say without misunderstanding. The implicit “now” in that understanding reminds us how short the history of that possibility is. The personal and analytical generosity of President Gómez's address is integral to the force of its rendering visible a constitutive “we”—inclusive and yet still partially concealed to itself by virtue of the unintended consequences of standard disciplinary practices.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 259 - 263
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© 2012 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

My thanks to Laura Gómez for that wonderful hour in San Francisco, and to the editors for inviting my response.

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