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Listening for Stories in All the Right Places: Narrative and Racial Formation Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

Charles Lawrence III
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“I will tell you something about stories, … they are all we have … to fight off illness and death.”

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Law & Society Review , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 247 - 258
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© 2012 Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

I am grateful to Mari Matsuda and Jon Goldberg Hiller who read early drafts of this essay and shared their insights with me. I am also indebted to Christina Gergis who provided me with able and timely research assistance.

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