Isabel Wilkerson Instagram – Stunned, floored and honored beyond belief that Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson chose to cite The Warmth of Other Suns in her brilliant and seminal dissent to the earth-shattering decision to end affirmative action.
In building her case for how African-Americans were legally excluded from every sphere of American life during the quarter-millennium of slavery and the near-century of Jim Crow, Justice Jackson turned to the work of scholars W.E.B. Dubois, Eric Foner, Richard Rothstein, Ira Katznelson, Mehrsa Baradaran and yours truly to document the continuing harm to a people who were enslaved for far longer than they have been free and were only legally permitted into the mainstream a few generations ago, within the lifetime of millions of people alive today.
Humbling and awe-inspiring to see this work entered for all time into the history of the Supreme Court and into the record of American jurisprudence.
Eternally grateful.
#supremecourt #thewarmthofothersuns #affirmativeaction | Posted on 07/Jul/2023 20:40:18
