Legal narratives, therapeutic narratives: the invisibility and omnipresence of race and gender.(Symposium: Representing Race)

From: Michigan Law Review | Date: February 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Assisting clients in constructing their own narratives of the events that lead to their involvement in the legal system should be a component of practicing law, particularly in domestic abuse cases, and race and gender issues must be addressed to make such narratives meaningful. Lawyers often categorize cases to ensure a degree of emotional detachment, but abstraction denies clients access to the specific realities that they have experienced. The law and legal education should promote an understanding of race- and gender-conscious cultural histories.

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