Cheryl Harris

Cheryl I. Harris is an American legal scholar and critical race theorist, best known for her seminal 1993 Harvard Law Review article 'Whiteness as Property,' which examines how whiteness functions as a form of property through legal privileges and exclusion.[1][2] A graduate of Wellesley College and Northwestern School of Law, she began her career as a litigator in Chicago, contributing to civil rights initiatives including anti-apartheid efforts, before joining UCLA Law faculty in 1998 where she holds the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and co-founded the Critical Race Studies Program.[3][2]