Author: Jill Elaine Hasday

Jill Elaine Hasday is a distinguished McKnight university professor and the centennial professor of law at the University of Minnesota Law School. She teaches and writes about anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, family law and legal history. We the Men is Hasday’s third book.

Trump’s $20 Problem: What Harriet Tubman’s Absence Tells Us About Power and Prejudice

An excerpt from Jill Elaine Hasday’s latest book, We the Men:

“From the start, women mobilizing for equality have endeavored to enrich and expand America’s dominant stories about itself. But attempts to focus public memory on women have repeatedly faced determined and protracted opposition, for generations and to the present day. 

“Consider the opposition to placing Harriet Tubman’s image on the $20 bill.”