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18 Berkeley J. Afr.-Am. L. & Pol'y 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/afamlpol18 and id is 1 raw text is: Requiem for a Rock: Teaching Race for the Last Time David Dante Troutt* IN T R O D U C T IO N .................................................................................................... 1 I.TEACHING RACE THROUGH REGIONAL EQUITY ............................................ 6 A. Regional Equity: Law as Butler and Bouncer .............................. 6 B. Teaching Race through Six Core Assumptions about A m erican O pportunity ................................................................ 10 It.TEACHING DIARY: A DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS ............................................ 14 A . The W arm Beginning ................................................................ 14 B. Progressive Mutuality (Confronting Localism) ......................... 16 C . The Intrusion of R eality .............................................................. 18 D . B lam ing R ace ............................................................................. 20 C O N CLU SIO N .............................................................................................. . . 23 INTRODUCTION Teaching race within the law school curriculum has always been absurd. After 20 years of trying, I liken the exercise to the Myth of Sisyphus. In a lovely little essay by that name, Albert Camus wrote of the relevant self- torture-the face screwed up, the cheek tight against the stone, the shoulder bracing the clay-covered mass, the foot wedging it, the fresh start with arms DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15779/Z382P1Q * Professor of Law, Justice John J. Francis Scholar, Director, Center on Law in Metropolitan Equity, Rutgers School of Law-Newark. There are too many colleagues and mentors of race, regional equity, and law teaching to thank individually for their contributions to these insights, but I am grateful. I have been fortunate to teach the students referred to here as well as a full generation who have challenged and molded me as a professor. Everlasting gratitude goes to my wife Shawn and our daughters for keeping me going in this pursuit as in all things.

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