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Cheryl Harris

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Through Civil and political rights

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

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

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.

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