Racism in America: The History of Racism in America

About Duchess Harris

Professor Harris is the chair of the American Studies Department at Macalester College. The author and coauthor of four books (Hidden Human Computers: The Black Women of NASA and Black Lives Matter with Sue Bradford Edwards Racially Writing the Republic: Racists Race Rebels and Transformations of American Identity with Bruce Baum and Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton/Obama) she has been an associate editor for Litigation News the American Bar Association Sections quarterly flagship publication and was the first editor-in-chief of Law Raza Journal an interactive online race and the law journal for William Mitchell College of Law. She has earned a PhD in American Studies from the University of Minnesota and a Juris Doctorate from William Mitchell College of Law.