The black perspective was systematically excised from the legal record

Evidence

In it, Jerome argued that law professors, particularly black law professors, should engage in what he called “black legal scholarship” and examine which legal issues are specific to black America. He noted the ways in which the black perspective has been systemically eliminated from the legal record throughout American history, starting with the removal of a condemnation of slavery from the Declaration of Independence. And near the end, he posed a question: … “To what extent have our tax laws been distorted now and historically by the question of slavery and continuing racism?” — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 30

Categorization

• QUESTION: The central research question the whole book answers — worth revisiting to frame the reader’s four-provision argument.
• XREF: Echoes the reader’s prior note that ‘the black perspective has been systemically eliminated,’ and connects to the structural-racism-as-mechanism framing across this library.