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Law prof & sociologist @YaleLawSch . Poverty, race, policing, qualitative methods, justice policy, empirical poems. In Carolina in my mind. 🌈

Brooklyn, NY

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Monica Bell

5 months

When I wrote this essay about Elijah McClain and the policing of Black nonconformity, I thought about how much my nephew and I love to sing to ourselves and dance down the street, lost in our inner worlds. I love being a weirdo. I want the world to let my nephew stay weird too.

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In the United States, there's a tendency to embrace nonconformity in principle—but not so for Black men, whose personal quirks can spark fear, policing, punishment, or worse, writes @monicacbell .

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4 years

We need more country people in academia. We need more people who grew up struggling in academia. 1/

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6 years

Told my mom about the book I'm writing on transformation of American criminal justice. Her reaction: “That’s good! The world needs that -- well, the world really needs Jesus, but that’s a decent first step.” Ok, I'll take that

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4 years

Imagine how much more grounded and nuanced our ideas would be if more of us were accountable not just to other traditional scholars looking for iconoclastic ideas, but also to loved ones more concerned with truth and usefulness. 3/

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Monica Bell

10 months

Let this be a reminder that these institutions never love us back

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5 years

In a series of unbelievable events, my most recent article was published in the American Journal of Sociology last week. It examines how institutions--particularly police--shape parents' ways of thinking about communities and their residential preferences.

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6 years

I teach constitutional law to 1Ls. I try to convince them that law has meaning, that legal institutions have stature beyond patriarchy, racism, power & politics. It's useful fiction. I don't know how to keep up that charade after what transpired today. #kavanaugh

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Monica Bell

4 years

One thing I suppose we can be grateful for during this time of pandemic is that Zoom sometimes captures these moments. We need to have more real conversations about manifestations of racism in higher education. TW: blatant anti-Blackness 1/

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Monica Bell

4 years

My new article in @nyulawreview describes how policing perpetuates racial housing segregation. It helps address one conundrum in the current debate: What to do about the routine police violence Black people experience outside central cities?

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4 years

Imagine how much richer our theories would be if more country people were in academia. 2/

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4 years

I wish we saw graduation from an elite law school as a sign, not of wisdom or morality, but of privilege, luck, and *maybe* book smarts. These institutions can do more -- and I'm in that fight. But we should also stop conflating elite academic credentials w/ personal credentials.

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Monica Bell

4 years

Imagine hearing someone give a talk in a country accent and thinking, "Yes, how exciting that this person is bringing in ideas from a context that's not usually present here" and not, "Gee, this person could never fit in"/"This person lacks 'soft skills'." 5/

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Monica Bell

3 years

Internal debates at my institution, Yale Law School, are in the news again. Esp. as an untenured person, I've avoided commenting on any aspect of the school. Unfortunately, this one cuts too close to home, and I can't remain silent. A 🧵:

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4 years

Imagine how much better we would serve our students if more country people were in academia -- both students who need role models and students with their own biases about what intelligence looks like and where it comes from. 6/

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4 years

Imagine how much better academic norms would be if more country people were in academia. 4/

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6 years

Humbled and overwhelmed to receive a 2019 Yale Law Women Faculty Excellence Award today. Two of my students gave embarrassingly generous comments that I'll try very hard to earn in the future. My constitutional law students had made t-shirts & gave me one.

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Monica Bell

3 years

I am relieved that #DerekChauvin was convicted today for murdering George Floyd. I breathe in this rare moment when the public recognized the value of a Black man's life and held an officer accountable for taking it. I am, as always, hopeful. And yet...

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Monica Bell

4 years

My latest, in which I, a sociologist, discuss how social science can perpetuate myths about the role of policing in securing Black communities, so-called common wisdom that policymakers should examine with a more critical eye. 🧐 #RacingNationalSecurity

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Black Security and the Conundrum of Policing

The complex reality that many Black people distrust police but still want more and better policing presents a conundrum for policymakers.

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Monica Bell

4 years

The most transcendent moment of Harvard’s graduation in 2018—yes, even more than getting my diploma—was encountering this breathtaking musical tribute to @repjohnlewis live and up close. I hope a song this beautiful and powerful ushered him onto the other side.

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Joshuah Campbell '16 and Harvard friends beautifully perform “Sing Out, March On”—a powerful tribute to @repjohnlewis , our featured speaker at #Harvard18 Commencement

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Monica Bell

4 years

My heart is broken for Breonna Taylor’s family. There are many people intellectualizing their pain and loss, and I don’t want to lose sight of the people at the center of what happened yesterday. Her sister’s Instagram post brought me to tears. I, too, am so sorry. #BreonnaTaylor

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4 years

Recognize that if you are seeing Black students at "the bottom" of your classes from year to year: It's probably your fault. Again: The problem isn't (meager) diversity efforts. It's you. 15/end

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4 years

Some students/alums @GeorgetownLaw are calling for various interventions, but one thing I wish were also on their list is a set of pedagogical trainings for all faculty about how bias may be affecting their teaching, interactions with, and perspectives on students. 2/

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Monica Bell

5 years

I woke up today thinking about cultural capital in elite educational settings. I'm always inspired by @tony_jack 's work, but today I was thinking about grad school/law school context. If you're 1st-gen, chances of branding as dumb, lazy, or "gunner" are high. #FirstGen 1/11

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Monica Bell

3 years

Grateful to share that my article, "Located Institutions," has received the 2021 Distinguished Article Award from @SocLawSection & the Jane Addams Award from @ComUrbASA of American Sociological Ass'n. While we don't work for awards, they are appreciated!

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Monica Bell

4 years

When we say something smart, it's a pleasant surprise. 🙄 If we get something wrong, it's because we're Black and don't belong there. It's not because we're human beings, like everyone else, who occasionally make mistakes. 5/

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Monica Bell

4 years

Plus, teaching is part of my job. If a student says something jumbled in response to something I've said or assigned, I've communicated in an unclear way. There is also pedagogical value in a jumbled comment. If one of my students is confused, so are others. 8/

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Monica Bell

2 years

I'm honored to have been the faculty commencement speaker for the Yale Law School Classes of 2020 and 2021 a few weeks ago. Here's a link to the ceremony: I start a little more than 6 minutes in. General theme is friendship through trying times.

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3 years

In this new paper in Journal of Economic Perspectives, I make three arguments about the future of public safety research. Research has often been limited in scope and outmoded in its assumptions. TLDR: 🧵

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Monica Bell

1 year

@AnthonyMKreis As a Black gay with loan debt, after the last two days, it’s like, “please no one ever talk to me again”

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Monica Bell

4 years

If one stops using race as a lens to interpret a challenging comment, then one can perhaps see the insight the comment offers. Maybe professors with this problem just aren't smart enough or good enough listeners to recognize a comment that is actually helpful. 10/

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Monica Bell

4 years

Finally, as someone who has made a *lot* of anxiety-fueled jumbled comments in my day: I tend to slip into saying things that are unclear when my spirit is aware that the listener expects me, as part of my group, to say something wrong or unintelligent. 11/

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Monica Bell

4 years

It's hard for students to keep engaging at 100% and trying to prove themselves when they can already sense that the dynamic is infected with bias. If we want Black students to perform well, we have to *believe in them.* And there's no non-racist reason not to. 13/

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Monica Bell

4 years

So, to all the professors who hold similar views to Sandra Sellers but who haven't yet been caught on Zoom: Please interrogate how you interact with Black students. Please reflect upon the expectations you hold about Black presence in intellectual space. 14/

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Monica Bell

2 years

Just realized that I got tenure @YaleLawSch exactly 1 year and a half-day ago. It's my tenure-versary 😯 I was supposed to tweet about it back then, but it was too overwhelming to list all the people I wanted to individually thank. Easily hundreds! 1/10

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Monica Bell

5 years

Awesome things happened today. My colleagues voted to let me keep my job for a few more years! My @square1justice article on frameworks for community in criminal transformation went live in Du Bois Review (link below)! But @elizabhinton 's official news might be most exciting 😻

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Elizabeth Hinton

5 years

So, yeah, this is my big professional news. I’m thrilled to be joining the @Yale and the @YaleLawSch faculty at this critical historical moment. Onward!

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4 years

It's important to name that because *so many faculty*--of many racial groups and political persuasions--buy into this view. And it poisons the way they interact with Black folks in intellectual spaces. 4/

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Monica Bell

4 years

If anyone is looking for social science research relevant to race, policing, and violence, @UChicagoPress has made several articles, including papers by @jdawncarlson , @jlegewie , @Laurence_Ralph , myself & several others available with *open access* here:

University of Chicago Press Journals: Social justice

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Monica Bell

4 years

The unspoken "justification" for the racist view Sandra Sellers espouses here is, of course, affirmative action -- coupled with Richard Sanders' discredited "mismatch hypothesis." The basic idea is that Black students don't do well because they don't deserve to be admitted. 3/

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Monica Bell

3 years

That's it for now. I have no interest in speaking further about internal school matters. But I am also exhausted by an uninformed chattering class having a conversation solely among themselves.

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3 years

#DerekChauvin 's conviction is only about those visibly brutal 9 minutes and 29 seconds. Most police violence against Black people is neither that visible nor so obviously, aesthetically brutal.

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4 years

In my own collected 10+ years teaching in these types of settings, I've never had a Black student who I perceived to be on the "bottom" of my class. Never. Not once. 6/

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4 years

Also: Teasing through "jumbled comments" has produced some of the most exciting mutual insights I've experienced as a teacher. 9/

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4 years

I don't keep track of student comments by their racial group. 🤦🏿‍♀️ But if I counted the number of jumbled comments that I needed to reason through as a professor, I am pretty sure that most of those comments weren't made by Black students. 7/

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4 years

@LRCaldwell6 Here, “country” means someone who bears the complex cultural traits or identifies heavily as non-urban, often but not necessarily poor, generally (in US context) Southern/Midwestern.

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Monica Bell

5 years

Official announcement is out: Grateful to @RussellSageFdn for this amazing opportunity! Looking fwd to building community with these exciting scholars and working on various projects. Thankful to @YaleLawSch , and thrilled to be in NYC full time next year!

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3 years

Consider the similar term, "ghetto." I use it academically and many Black folks use it in daily speech. But if someone threw a "ghetto" party where they served fried chicken, the racially pejorative meaning would be exceedingly clear.

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Monica Bell

4 years

This is *not* the right direction to take 🤦🏿‍♀️

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The New York Times

4 years

Breaking News: Amy Cooper, the white woman in Central Park who called the police on a Black bird watcher, will be charged with filing a false report

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3 years

These commentators are in the odd position of dictating to Black students what they should find offensive. (Sometimes they reinforce their assessment by having a tokenistic conversation with a Black friend, probably someone of an older generation.)

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Monica Bell

6 years

When a blind reviewer tells you that your failure to cite your own work means you are “ignoring the literature” and “making unfounded assumptions”... 😬 or 😂 or 👊🏿? #CiteBlackWomen

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Monica Bell

4 years

Proud to be one of 150+ profs thus far who have signed a ltr committing to collective accountability for law's support of police violence, anti-Blackness, and white supremacy. We express solidarity with movements for defund & abolition. Letter is here:

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Sign on Letter to Fellow Law + Scholars

Date TBD, 2020 A Time for Solidarity: an Open Letter to Our Colleagues Across the nation, we are witnessing sustained protest on a scale unseen since the civil rights movement. The police killings of...

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Monica Bell

4 years

Atlanta 🖤 Philadelphia 🖤 Detroit 🖤

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Monica Bell

3 years

Much debate in the media thus far has focused on whether the underlying speech was racially insensitive. Bizarrely, almost no Black people are involved in this conversation. It is a one-sided confab among a largely white set of commentators.

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Monica Bell

4 years

True, I guess - but to prospective law profs out there: Let's say you can't transfer to one of the lawprof schools or you already have your JD. Your grades aren't good. You don't know any of your professors. All of that is fixable. The only thing that can't be fixed is no ideas.

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William Baude

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What To Do in Law School If You Want to be a Law Professor One Day

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Monica Bell

3 years

That the context of language matters to its interpretation should be obvious to lawyers and writers. Yet, the mainstream media and right wing are committed to a recycled take that Black students and university admins are doing "cancel culture." So, they ignore inconvenient facts.

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4 years

Claude Steele labelled it more than two decades ago -- "stereotype threat." 12/

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Racism, bias, and discrimination

Racism is a form of prejudice that generally includes negative emotional reactions, acceptance of negative stereotypes, and discrimination against individuals. Discrimination involves negative,...

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Monica Bell

5 years

One of the unspoken rules of elite graduate education is that you're supposed to work very hard, but never appear to be working hard. That is how you establish a reputation as "naturally brilliant." 2/11

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Monica Bell

3 years

One of many things I love about Yaseen is his commitment to positive change through dialogue, education, and mentorship. In the recording, he assured the student that no one wanted to be "carceral" toward him--even as he wasn't extended similar kindness or respect.

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Monica Bell

3 years

One problem here is that many members of the chattering class have no idea what trap means, how it originated, or its racial connotations. As a Black woman who grew up in the South as trap music gained prominence, the association with my community of origin is obvious.

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Monica Bell

2 years

Proud of ⁦ @YaleLawSch ⁩ and our dean ⁦ @GerkenHeather ⁩ today As I’ve written re: public safety, metrics reflect values and create incentives. US News metrics chill investment in expanded access to legal education and public service.

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Monica Bell

4 years

As someone who's spent a lifetime coping with stressful events by intellectualizing them, this workshop on my new police transformation project was healing today. I couldn't respond to all of the insightful points raised, but they will definitely be reflected in future drafts.

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4 years

Today, at the @CardozoLaw Summer Crim Workshop, we will discuss early work by @monicacbell . Her work approaches the criminal legal system with tremendous thoughtfulness and sociological insight. We are so lucky to be in conversation with her.

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Monica Bell

1 year

So honored and grateful to have been elected Chair-Elect (and 2024-25 Chair) of the American Sociological Association @SocLawSection , as well as a member of the 2023-24 Nominating Committee for the ASA!

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Elections | American Sociological Association

2024 ASA Election Results

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Monica Bell

3 years

Important perspective from an actual Black Yale Law School student, as opposed to commentators relying on stereotypes about them We’re Not ‘Cripplingly Sensitive,’ Black Students at Yale Law Just Want to Talk by @SajaSpearman

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We’re Not “Cripplingly Sensitive,” Black Students at Yale Law Just Want to Talk

My classmate at Yale Law School is wrongly conflating criticism of the content of his speech with an attempt to suppress his right to…

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Monica Bell

3 years

@sheabutterfemme This is a really smart thread - thank you. I’m not an organizer, but I see this in related settings. And it frustrates me to no end that the stupid “cancel culture” trope makes it harder to have a conversation about how to be more just in our relationships to each other

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4 years

This news abt @ForrestDStuart and others makes my day! 🎉🎉🎉 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners for 2020: The Full List

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MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant Winners for 2020: The Full List (Published 2020)

The MacArthur fellowships are awarded for “extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits.” Below are this year’s fellows.

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Monica Bell

3 years

So, I'm relieved and sending love to George Floyd's family and to all affected. But I'm not naïve. And people who have been laboring against police violence and for racial justice for years aren't either. As the old song says, "keep [our] eyes on the prize."

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Monica Bell

3 years

Really honored and excited to join the @just_security Board of Editors! Looking forward to helping build and contribute to conversation around racial justice, state violence, the criminal system, law and sociology, and more.

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Just Security

3 years

We are thrilled to announce three new members of the Just Security editorial board. @monicacbell ( @Yale @YaleLawSch ) @bechamilton ( @American ) @JoyceWhiteVance ( @UALawSchool ) Please join us in welcoming them!

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Monica Bell

4 years

Here's my blog post on structural & symbolic police violence for LPE. "Police reform" has to take a much broader approach that touches other broken and racially unjust institutions for any chance of real, sustainable change. Neither use of force policy nor defunding is enough.

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LPE Blog

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Monica Bell makes her LPE debut by pointing out that police brutality is only one emanation of the multiple overlapping forms of structural violence that policing inflicts on Black people and communities.

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Monica Bell

4 years

Several days ago, I expressed disagreement with the Manhattan DA's decision to run Amy Cooper through the NY misdemeanor system. A few people asked about other ways of responding to these incidents. Here's one of my ideas, in @theappeal :

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The Case For Racism Response Funds – A Collective Response To Racist Acts

Through this mechanism, communities can accept accountability for the racism they allow to flourish by failing to disrupt it.

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Monica Bell

3 years

I am concerned about the political naïvete in some of the public commentary about the #DerekChauvinTrial . Some well-meaning and excited folks are saying things like, "This sends a message to police departments that they have to respect Black lives." But... does it?

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4 years

The amazing @DorothyABrown basically created the field of critical race tax scholarship, and now she's published an accessible book that upends ideas about the race-neutrality of the U.S. Tax Code. Check out her phenomenal story -- and buy the book!

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A Tax Code Optimized for White Wealth Leaves Black Americans Behind

Dorothy Brown has spent her career as a law professor documenting racism in a tax system that’s supposedly colorblind.

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Monica Bell

3 years

Think about how extreme #DerekChauvin 's actions had to be to elicit this outcome. Observe that the prosecutor made clear that the case was *only* about the 9 minutes and 29 seconds that Chauvin knelt on George Floyd's neck.

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Monica Bell

3 years

As generations progress--especially on matters of racial justice--what rightfully causes outrage evolves. We might be at a later stage of that conversation, and people like those commentators, or even myself, might not be the right ones to sit from on high and drive it.

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Monica Bell

5 years

Feels messy to post here, but my estranged father died from #COVID19 on April 1st. My hometown paper just published this piece on racial disparity in #coronavirus deaths in South Carolina that features his story. I don't have a unique hot take on this 😑

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'The Maestro' of Anderson is among black people dying disproportionately of the coronavirus

Another man who had COVID-19 had a body temperature of 109 degrees after he died, according to the Anderson County coroner.

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3 years

#DerekChauvin 's conviction was not about the extreme and harsh police response over $20.

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Monica Bell

3 years

Teaching this group of kind, brilliant, and inspiring people is one of the best things that has happened in my career thus far. I am *so* proud to know each of them (inc. the 3 who aren’t pictured)! Congrats on all you’ve done—and thanks in advance for all you will do 🙏🏿

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Professor @monicacbell and a group of newly graduated members of the Yale Law School Class of 2021! #YaleLaw2021

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3 years

Yaseen explained to the student that if he did nothing, there might be lingering effects on the student's reputation. While some may have perceived this as a "threat," it was actually good advice.

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Monica Bell

5 years

We can all agree that this year has been epically bad. But one of its brightest spots for me has been equally collaborating with @stephgarlock and @xandernn to write "Toward a Demosprudence of Poverty," now out in the symposium issue of @DukeLawJournal .

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Monica Bell

3 years

The legal community *is* small. As one example--as so many commentators have noted, 8/9 Supreme Court justices went to the same two law schools, one of which is YLS. (I do not celebrate that, but it is true.) Two justices went to high school together.

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3 years

This morning, I read the most recent version of @mathuclair 's forthcoming article, "Criminalized Subjectivity: Du Boisian Sociology and Visions for Legal Change," and .... folks, he's a genius 🤯

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Monica Bell

5 years

New essay in @HarvardCRCL : Safety, friendship, and dreams should be central to 21st c. racial justice agenda; begins with "empirical poetry" drawing from interview participants' narratives. Eager for feedback...

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Monica Bell

3 years

Yaseen conveyed to the student multiple connotations of "trap house." Yaseen expressed an assumption of good intentions, implying that the student simply didn't understand how the term could be perceived as racially offensive.

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Monica Bell

10 months

So grateful for the opportunities I had in college. I wouldn’t typically repost a write-up about myself, but it was fun to revisit 18-yo me and reflect on the quirky trajectory. Thank you, @FurmanU ! 🙏🏿

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Professor @monicacbell talks to her alma mater, @FurmanU , about her life, research, and the power of poetry to bring change.

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6 years

@Kica333 At 30, I had all 5. At 33, I tossed most of the cords. At 35, I recycled the bags bc mice used them to make nests. Now at 37, I just use the Tupperware lidless it’s great

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Monica Bell

4 years

I'd be happy to say or write more at another time - but back to work. This topic is very important to me. If you want to be a legal academic but didn't do things "right" in law school, please reach out. You still have a chance. We can think together re: how to realize your goals.

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Yes, I hope police departments take away from #DerekChauvin 's conviction that officers cannot assault people with impunity. But without sustained movement action alongside federal legislation, the likely lasting impact is more of the same. The pressure has to continue.

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Monica Bell

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It is obvious that what happens today can have a long-term impact on our students' reputations. It is our duty within an educational institution to advise our students in light of this fact.

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Monica Bell

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Now as a prof, I fight this. Some of the world's most brilliant minds--often (but not only) those who arrived here without trust funds and family dinners discussing Hegel or Habermas--tell me they feel "dumb" or "confused" regularly. It enrages me. 6/11

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Monica Bell

5 years

Reform on 1st-gen access often tackles issues like finances or academic preparedness or so-called "soft skills." But there are other big obstacles: Toxic elite cultural scripts about merit that even the most "progressive" people espouse. We must build new scripts. 10/11

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Monica Bell

3 years

There is a separate question of whether administrators should have been involved in this incident at all. University administrators are not mere disciplinarians. They have educational, advising, and community support duties, and those are the roles admins were playing here.

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Monica Bell

4 years

I support defund, and backlash is also something I worry about to some degree. But what you’ve offered isn’t a critique of defund but a critique of the politics of policymaking about policing. 1/9

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Monica Bell

3 years

#DerekChauvin 's conviction was not about the gun that the initial responding officer pulled on George Floyd when he was still inside his vehicle, terrifying him.

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Monica Bell

5 years

We can stop rewarding only the students who seem most "naturally brilliant"--those who are most verbally fluent in class, those who never ask for help, those who usually seem happy with us. None of those traits are criteria for intellect or academic value. 8/11

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Monica Bell

3 years

#DerekChauvin 's conviction was not about the officers' utter disregard for George Floyd's safety and mental health when he was having an anxiety reaction as they tried to force him into the police vehicle.

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Monica Bell

3 years

When I listened to the recording of the conversation the "trap house" student had with administrators, I was impressed. Indeed, I wish my own tough conversations had such a thoughtful, careful, and blame-free tone.

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Monica Bell

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First-gens often react in 3 ways. (1) Work hard anyway, visibly, and gain the stigmatized rep of "gunner" or braggart. (2) Decide they aren't so smart and re-channel their energy into goals they see as requiring competence, not brilliance. (3) Check out completely. 4/11

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Monica Bell

3 years

This necessary accountability of #DerekChauvin should not distract from the deeper and *more* necessary project of institutional change and societal transformation.

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Monica Bell

3 years

I respectfully disagree with @conor64 's take, which contains inaccurate information. Let's start with the fact that Yale Law School does not have an "Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"... 1/

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Conor Friedersdorf

3 years

The behavior of Yale Law’s Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion was unethical, discreditable, and clearly incompatible with key values that the elite law school purports to uphold. Here are five specific transgressions:

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Monica Bell

3 years

If we’ve talked much in the last year, I’ve probably rambled about my amazing experience in Tulsa just before the pandemic and my admiration for many of the people I met. This essay is one bit of a larger project on democratic reparation after state-sanctioned racial violence.

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Just Security

3 years

Leading scholar — @monicacbell ( @yale ) — outlines five "features of what a capacious commitment to democratic repair in the wake of state violence might mean" in response to #TulsaRaceMassacre . Part of our new series on #Tulsa100 . #BlackWallStreet

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Monica Bell

6 years

@JudsonCarmicha1 @carmenmmachado @selina3sticks #notallqueers

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Monica Bell

6 years

Recently learned that our paper, "Relationship Repertoires, the Price of Parenthood & the ‘Costs’ of Contraception," was a finalist for the 2019 Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for best article published in Social Service Review. Surprised; honored. @KathrynEdin @girlziplocked

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Monica Bell

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Most of the incidents that foster legal estrangement in Black communities are akin to the injustices that *preceded* that particular harrowing moment.

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