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4 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 33 (1994-1995)
Foreword: Toward a Race-Conscious Pedagogy in Legal Education

handle is hein.journals/scws4 and id is 45 raw text is: FOREWORD: TOWARD A RACE- CONSCIOUS PEDAGOGY IN LEGAL EDUCATION* KIMBERLt WILLIAMS CRENSHAW** It is both an honor and a pleasure to write the Foreword for this issue of the NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL. This project represents the culmination of a joint effort involving the NBLJ, Dean Susan Westerberg Prager and me. The project grew out of discussions that began in the Spring of 1987 in which we explored various ways that the law school could support the production of publishable student material for the Journal. I initially considered sponsoring interested students in independent research projects; however, a high level of student interest, an obvious overlap between proposed student topics, and my own interest in developing alternative pedagogical strategies combined to make a seminar the most attractive option. After receiving suggested themes for the proposed issue from Journal members, I attempted to develop a seminar that would reflect our substantive interests and that would also be responsive to some of the problems that I believe confront minority students in traditional classrooms. The seminar that resulted-Minority Voting Rights and Majoritarian Domination-reflected an effort to further three inter- related objectives: 1) to explore the successes and failures of the legal strategies developed to address political disenfranchisement on the * The editors of the Soutrmu-I CALIFORNIA REVIEW OF LAW AND WOMEN's STUDIES thank both Professor Crenshaw and the editors of the NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL for their generous permission to reprint this Foreward as part of the publication of the AALS Symposium, Bringing Values and Perspectives Back into the Law School Classroom: Practical Ideas for Teachers. The Foreward is reprinted unaltered from its original form. See 11 NAT'L BLAcK LJ. 1 (1989). ** Acting Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles. B.A., Cornell Univer- sity, 1981; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1984; LL.M., University of Wisconsin, 1985. I am grateful to several friends and colleagues who offered helpful comments on earlier drafts of this Foreword. I would like especially to thank Richard Yarborough, Duncan Kennedy, Neil Gotanda and the Editors of the NATIONAL BLACK LAw JOURNAL all of whom have been most generous in providing me with their time, insights, patience, and support.

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