Derrick Bell's scientific contributions

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... Racism is "a system of dominance, power, and privilege based on racial-group designations, rooted in the historical oppression of a group defined or perceived by dominantgroup members as inferior, deviant, or undesirable" (Harrell, 2000, p. 43). According to critical race theory (Bell, 1987;Crenshaw, 1991), racism and discrimination are embedded in the fabrics of society, and it is a lens through which to scrutinize how the intersections of power, race, and other social identities influence injustices. For example, systemic racism and ethnic-racial outgroup discrimination can be seen in inequities throughout various sectors of society such as income inequalities (Manduca, 2018), exclusion from housing (Ross & Turner, 2005), disparate treatment in healthcare (Hall et al., 2021), biases in the criminal justice system (King & Johnson, 2016), and police harassment and surveillance (Fisher et al., 2000;Greene et al., 2006). ...