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John A. Powell | |
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Born | 1947 Detroit, Michigan, USA |
Citizenship | United States of America |
Occupation | Law professor |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of California,Berkeley School of Law |
John A. Powell (born 1947) is an African-American law professor. He leads the UC Berkeley Othering &Belonging Institute [1] (formerly known as Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society [2] ) and holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion,Professor of Law and Professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California,Berkeley School of Law. [3] [4] Powell spells his name in lowercase based on the idea that we should be "part of the universe,not over it,as capitals signify". [5]
Powell was born on May 27,1947 [6] in Detroit,Michigan. He was raised by his mother and father,both sharecroppers from the South. His father was a Christian minister. [7]
Powell was previously the executive director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University. [8] He also taught civil rights law,property law and jurisprudence and held the Earl R. Larson Chair of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law at the University of Minnesota Law School.
He was the founder and former executive director of the Institute on Race and Poverty (IRP),which is located at the University of Minnesota Law School. [9] He has taught at Columbia University School of Law,Harvard Law School,University of Miami School of Law,American University and the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Powell earned a J.D. from the University of California,Berkeley School of Law and a B.A. from Stanford University. He then became an attorney with the Seattle Public Defender's Office. In 1977,Powell received an International Human Rights Fellowship from the University of Minnesota to work in Africa,where he served as a consultant to the government of Mozambique. Between 1987 and 1993,he worked as a national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union.
He is a co-founder of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) and serves on the boards of several national organizations including Tides.
Powell has proposed that white identity was forged in the 17th century in order to police social hierarchy in the Thirteen Colonies of pre-independence America. [10]
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)17th Century, and the creation of white identity as we know it today actually has gone through several iterations, but whites were not at the top of the food chain. Whites were the middle stratum. Who was at the top of the food chain? The elites and they did not consider themselves white. Whiteness was about creating an identity and the role of whiteness was to police those at the bottom.