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David Theo Goldberg is Director of the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. He has authored many books, including Are We All Postracial Yet? (2015) and Dread: Facing Futureless Futures (2021).
The highly orchestrated right-wing attacks cast a body of scholarship about race in the law as a great threat to American society.
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