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Marissa Jackson Sow

Spring 2023 Syllabus — State Power

In 2022, the (very awesome) then-Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Richmond School of Law asked me if I would…

10 min readSep 21, 2023

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Spring 2023 Syllabus — State Power

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Marissa Jackson Sow

Fall 2023 Syllabus — Contemporary Black Feminist Thought in the Law

This Fall, I have the honor and opportunity to debut a new reading group at the University of Richmond School of Law — Contemporary Black…

6 min readSep 16, 2023

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Fall 2023 Syllabus — Contemporary Black Feminist Thought in the Law

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Marissa Jackson Sow
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Laws & Orders

(excerpt from) The Shopping Cart

I noticed the stares before I considered what they meant, of folks trying, and failing, to make sense of what they were seeing. As was…

6 min readFeb 17, 2021

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(excerpt from) The Shopping Cart

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Laws & Orders

Clean up in Aisle 5

This morning, I was wheeling my shopping cart past a magazine stand in Whole Foods Market and caught a glimpse of a magazine cover…

2 min readJan 23, 2021

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Clean up in Aisle 5

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Laws & Orders

The Patently Racial Politics of Bridgerton’s Racial Utopia

Like tens of millions of viewers around the world, I treated myself to Season One of Shondaland’s adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton…

11 min readJan 16, 2021

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Queen Charlotte in Bridgerton, played by Golda Rosheuvel. Credit: Netflix

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Laws & Orders

I See You

The power of seeing and being seen

4 min readSep 27, 2020

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A young girl in a market stares upward into the camera.

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Marissa Jackson Sow

The Art of a Bad Deal

On Black Voters’ Limited Negotiating Power

4 min readMay 5, 2020

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The Art of a Bad Deal

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ZORA

Finding My Home in Motown’s Margins

Detroit may be changing but it is still full of Black culture and history

9 min readNov 8, 2019

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A photo of two Black youths walking down a street in Detroit.

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Marissa Jackson Sow

A Response to Eugene Robinson/When Equality and Innocence Are Not Enuf

On Monday, October 14, 2019, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson published a brilliant, passionate opinion essay in the Post titled…

5 min readOct 16, 2019

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Marissa Jackson Sow

On What Goes Up

Empire is durable, yet thoroughly unsustainable.

1 min readAug 30, 2019

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Marissa Jackson Sow

Marissa Jackson Sow

Human rights evangelist and legal scholar tracking legal personhood, race, gender, and political and socio-cultural movements. Twitter/ IG @MarissaEsque

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