RACE, MULTICULTURALISM, AND THE JURISPRUDENCE OF TRANSFORMATION - FOREWORD

Liberal individualist theory has vitally shaped the legal consideration of race and racial discrimination. Yet Professor Lawrence argues that this theory's exclusive focus on individual harms jeopardizes the future of group-based remedies such as affirmative action. He contends that a substantive approach, rather than a procedural one, can better address racial issues. What Professor Lawrence labels a ''transformative approach'' would focus not on remedying individual indignities but on correcting group-level injustices, and the author maintains that it offers the only effective means for subordinated groups to combat omnipresent white supremacy.