Making All the Difference – American Law's Treatment of Race and Identities

Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School, delivers a talk titled "Making All the Difference – American Law's Treatment of Race and Identities" as part of Facing History's Day of Learning "Reimagining Self and Other." In this episode, Minow explains how the law can be used to reinforce social prejudices and create power imbalances, but can also be used as a resource to challenge those patterns. Minow uses examples of current and past court cases brought in countries around the world, such as Slovakia, to illustrate that the law can reflect legacies of inequality, but can also be a powerful tool in helping to fix these inequities.

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Making All the Difference – American Law's Treatment of Race and Identities is an episode from Facing History: Voices by Hedrick Ellis.

This episode is 16:29 long.

This episode was published on Jan 27, 2014.

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