Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-26-2015
Abstract
Professor Derrick Bell was one of the most influential constitutional scholars of the last fifty years His insights spurred civil rights scholars as well as thinkers in other fields One of his most important legacies is the interestconvergence thesis which asserts that historically African Americans gained social justice primarily when their interests converged with the interests of the white majority In a recently published article Rethinking the InterestConvergence Thesis Professor Justin Driver calls this legacy into question This Essay defends the interestconvergence thesis from Driver's attack It argues that the analytical flaws he identifies only exist by dint of his fundamental misreading of the interestconvergence thesis
Recommended Citation
Feldman, Stephen Matthew, "Do the Right Thing: Understanding the Interest-Convergence Thesis" (2015). Faculty Articles. 126.
https://scholarship.law.uwyo.edu/faculty_articles/126
First Page
248