Ariela Gross is the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History at USC Gould School of Law. She is writing a book that will look at the way the history and memory of slavery reverberate through law, culture, and politics in debates about reparations, affirmative action, and other forms of redress for a past that lives on in the present. Join her as she discusses her research.

Gross is the author of numerous books, most recently “Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana.” Her book “What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America” was a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and won the Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; the J. Willard Hurst Book Prize from the Law and Society Association; and the Lillian Smith Book Award.