Derrick Bell

7.1k citations
77 papers · 3.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 19

Impact in

  • Education top 0.2%
    • Higher Education Research Studies
    • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
    • Education Discipline and Inequality
    • School Choice and Performance
    • Critical Race Theory in Education
    • Race, History, and American Society
    • Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy
    • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

Papers in

Derrick Bell

63 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform 2005 · 279 citations
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Peers

Derrick Bell
Comparison fields: 5 of 95
  • Education 2.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 2.8k
  • Gender Studies 345
  • Safety Research 196
  • Public Administration 79
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All Works

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#Work
1
The value and importance of geography
200513
2
The Derrick Bell reader
200529
3
Critical race feminism : a reader
2003135
4
Brief for Respondents
20033
5
Affirmative Action: Another Instance of Racial Workings in the United States
20005
6
Epilogue. Affirmative Action: Another Instance of Racial Workings in the United States.
20002
7
Getting Beyond a Property in Race
19993
8
Diversity and Academic Freedom.
19932
9
Learning the Three I's of America's Slave Heritage - Symposium on the Law of Slavery: Theories of Democracy and the Law of Slavery
19931
10
Political Reality Testing: 1993
19932
11 19893
12
Minority Law Professors' Lives: The Bell-Delgado Survey
198915
13
The Dilemma of the Responsible Law Reform Lawyer in the Post-Free Enterprise Era
19861
14
The Remedy in "Brown" Is Effective Schooling for Black Children.
19841
15
Preferential Affirmative Action.
19821
16
Humanity in Legal Education.
19800
17
Learning from the "Brown" Experience.
19791
18
Introduction: Awakening after Bakke.
19791
19
The Age of segregation : race relations in the South, 1890-1945 : essays
19781
20
Racial Remediation: An Historical Perspective on Current Conditions
197610

About Derrick Bell

Derrick Bell is a scholar working on Law, Political Science and International Relations, Education, Public Administration and Accounting, having authored 77 papers that have together received 3.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (10 papers), Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (7 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 papers), Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 papers), Race, History, and American Society (5 papers), School Choice and Performance (5 papers), Legal Issues in Education (5 papers) and Law, Rights, and Freedoms (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Education (2.1k citations), Sociology and Political Science (2.8k citations), Gender Studies (345 citations), Safety Research (196 citations) and Public Administration (79 citations). Derrick Bell has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Genna Rae McNeil, Mark Tushnet, Jon Saari, Richard Delgado, Adrien K. Wing, A. Leon Higginbotham, Robert Glennon, Robert M. Cover, Jean Stefancic and Peyton McCrary. Their work appears in journals such as The Journal of Negro Education, California Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review and Michigan Law Review.

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