Tag: Anne D Gordon

Anne D Gordon, “Cleaning up Our Own Houses: Creating Anti-Racist Clinical Programs”

May 19, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Bias – Racism, Bias – Unconscious, Clinical Legal Education – United States, Feedback, Format – Article, Mentorship, Pedagogy – Modelling, Power Dynamics, Supervision – Quality of Supervision -Effective

This article seeks to guide legal clinics to self-evaluate regarding how clinics perpetuate racism unconsciously. This article offers concrete suggestions for implementing change. Law schools are homes to white supremacist culture. Beliefs, values, norms, and standards support the widespread ideology that whiteness holds value. Characteristics of this culture include: perfectionism, either/or thinking, quantity over quality,…