"These guys run the gamut from political opportunists to out-and-out hustlers," said Derrick Bell, a liberal black professor at the Harvard University Law School.

By Derrick Bell.

"Many people feel what Derrick Bell is doing is dangerous," said Clark Byse, a professor emeritus at the law school who still teaches a course.

"In terms of academic freedom, this certainly is a blow," said Derrick Bell, a black law professor at Harvard who writes about civil rights.

There is much Derrick Bell in the text, and little William Julius Wilson.

FOR an angry man, Derrick Bell is surprisingly good company.

He added: "I know for a fact some people said, 'We're not going to hire anybody now, because it will look like Derrick Bell pressured us.'

This is how 61-year-old Derrick Bell has survived in a world that makes him angry all the time.

A group agitating for greater faculty diversity occupied the dean's office and sued the school for discrimination; Derrick Bell, a black law professor, resigned over the issue.

The Space Traders is a science fiction short story by Derrick Bell.