@article{1479108,
      recid = {1479108},
      author = {Mack, Kenneth W., },
      title = {Representing the Race : The Creation of the Civil Rights  Lawyer /},
      pages = {1 online resource (352 p.) :},
      abstract = {Representing the Race tells the story of an enduring  paradox of American race relations, through the prism of a  collective biography of African American lawyers who worked  in the era of segregation. Practicing the law and seeking  justice for diverse clients, they confronted a tension  between their racial identity as black men and women and  their professional identity as lawyers. Both blacks and  whites demanded that these attorneys stand apart from their  racial community as members of the legal fraternity. Yet,  at the same time, they were expected to be "authentic"-that  is, in sympathy with the black masses. This conundrum, as  Kenneth W. Mack shows, continues to reverberate through  American politics today.Mack reorients what we thought we  knew about famous figures such as Thurgood Marshall, who  rose to prominence by convincing local blacks and prominent  whites that he was-as nearly as possible-one of them. But  he also introduces a little-known cast of characters to the  American racial narrative. These include Loren Miller, the  biracial Los Angeles lawyer who, after learning in college  that he was black, became a Marxist critic of his fellow  black attorneys and ultimately a leading civil rights  advocate; and Pauli Murray, a black woman who seemed  neither black nor white, neither man nor woman, who helped  invent sex discrimination as a category of law. The stories  of these lawyers pose the unsettling question: what,  ultimately, does it mean to "represent" a minority group in  the give-and-take of American law and politics?},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479108},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674065307},
}