Cheryl Harris Explained

Spouse:	Keorapetse Kgositsile (separated)
Children:	Earl Sweatshirt
Website:	UCLA faculty profile

Cheryl I. Harris is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist. She is a professor of civil rights and civil liberties at the UCLA School of Law.^{[1] [2]}

Harris is widely known for "Whiteness as Property", published in the June 1993 edition of the Harvard Law Review.^{[3] [4]} In the paper, Harris describes the white racial identity and the value it confers in a slave society.^[5]

Harris is also the mother of American rapper, songwriter and record producer Earl Sweatshirt.^[6]

Education

Harris received her first degree from Wellesley College in 1973 and her J.D. degree from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 1978.

References

1. Web site: Harris, Cheryl UCLA Law . 2023-05-16 . law.ucla.edu . en.
2. Web site: 2 June 2020. UCLA protests LAPD using Jackie Robinson stadium for protest arrest processing. Gale. Holland. 30 June 2020. The Los Angeles Times.
3. Web site: Warren. James. WHITENESS AS PROPERTY. 5 September 1993. 3 June 2020. The Chicago Tribune.
4. Harris. Cheryl I.. 1993. Whiteness as Property. Harvard Law Review. 106. 8. 1707–1791. 10.2307/1341787. 1341787. 0017-811X.
5. News: Bouie. Jamelle. 8 May 2020. The Anti-Lockdown Protesters Have a Twisted Conception of Liberty. The New York Times. 30 June 2020. 0362-4331. subscription.
6. 8 December 2019. 5 Things We Learned From Earl Sweatshirt's Talk With His Mother at MOCA in L.A.. 3 June 2020. Billboard.