Lani Guinier (1950–2022)
Author of Tyranny of the Majority : Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy
About the Author
In 1998, Lani Guinier became the first woman of color appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School. She has published many hooks, including The Tyranny of the Majority, Becoming Gentlemen, and Lift Every Voice, and she coauthored The Miner's Canary with Gerald Tones.
Image credit: "Lani Guinier at the 30th anniversary of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C." by Wikipedia user Smalagodi.
Works by Lani Guinier
Tyranny of the Majority : Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy (1994) 143 copies, 1 review
The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy (2002) 114 copies, 2 reviews
The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America (2015) 73 copies, 18 reviews
Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback Into a New Vision of Social Justice (1998) 68 copies, 1 review
Associated Works
Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas (1997) — Contributor — 437 copies, 5 reviews
Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement (1995) — Contributor — 385 copies, 1 review
I Still Believe Anita Hill: Three Generations Discuss the Legacies of Speaking Truth to Power (2012) — Contributor — 22 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Guinier, Lani
- Legal name
- Guinier, Carol Lani
- Birthdate
- 1950-04-19
- Date of death
- 2022-01-07
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Cause of death
- complications of Alzheimer's
- Places of residence
- Queens, New York, USA
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Washington, D.C., USA - Education
- Yale University Law School (JD|1974)
Radcliffe College (BA|1971) - Occupations
- lawyer
legal scholar
professor (Law)
memoirist - Relationships
- Bowie, Nolan (spouse)
Bowie, Nikolas (son) - Organizations
- Harvard University Law School
University of Pennsylvania Law School
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
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Statistics
- Works
- 6
- Also by
- 7
- Members
- 442
- Popularity
- #55,392
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 22
- ISBNs
- 15