| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Jennifer Lunsford, R. Zachary Sanzone |
Outing the New Jim Crow: Ending Segregation of Lgbtq Students by Creating Barriers to 501(c)(3) Tax-exemption Status |
23 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 435 (2015) |
I. LGBTQ Rights in Supreme Court Jurisprudence. 438 II. Private, Religious Schools and Their Constitutional Protection Against Providing Constitutional Protections. 441 A. First Amendment Limitations. 441 B. Hobby Lobby and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993. 443 C. The Legal History of Revenue Rule 71-447. 445 D. Funding the Problem: A... |
2015 |
| Kenneth Lawson |
Police Shootings of Black Men and Implicit Racial Bias: Can't We All Just Get along |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 339 (Spring, 2015) |
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes... |
2015 |
| Alison Hill |
Political Activism: Chicago Politicians' Silence When Black Lives Matter |
21 Public Interest Law Reporter 72 (Fall 2015) |
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has pressured Democratic politicians on the national stage to take a hard stance on police brutality, excessive force, and misconduct, yet the BLM network has not endorsed one candidate for president. The presidential campaign acts as an easy avenue for BLM to get their message to the masses by forcing a... |
2015 |
| Michael Pinard |
Poor, Black and "Wanted": Criminal Justice in Ferguson and Baltimore |
58 Howard Law Journal 857 (Spring, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 857 I. THE TELLING OF TWO CITIES--DEMOGRAPHICS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE. 862 II. STUCK IN THE SYSTEM: WARRANTS IN FERGUSON AND BALTIMORE. 867 III. POTENTIAL REFORMS--LESSONS FROM FERGUSON. 872 EPILOGUE. 877 |
2015 |
| Jack Glaser, Karin D. Martin, Kimberly B. Kahn, University of California, Berkeley, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and City University of New York, Portland State University |
Possibility of Death Sentence Has Divergent Effect on Verdicts for Black and White Defendants |
39 Law and Human Behavior 539 (December, 2015) |
When anticipating the imposition of the death penalty, jurors may be less inclined to convict defendants. On the other hand, minority defendants have been shown to be treated more punitively, particularly in capital cases. Given that the influence of anticipated sentence severity on verdicts may vary as a function of defendant race, the goal of... |
2015 |
| Philip C. Aka, Aref A. Hervani, Elizabeth Arnott-Hill |
Protection Against the Economic Fears of Old Age: Six Micro and Macro Steps for Bridging the Gap in Retirement Security Between Blacks and Whites |
40 Vermont Law Review 1 (Fall, 2015) |
Introduction and Purpose of Study. 2 I. Depicting the Shape of the Retirement Security Gap Between Blacks and Whites. 7 II. Historical Backdrop: Protection Against the Economic Fears of Old Age. 15 III. A Parade of Six Micro and Macro Steps for Closing the Gap in Retirement Security Between Blacks and Whites. 23 A. Micro Steps. 26 1. Social... |
2015 |
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Radtalks: What Could Be Possible If the Law Really Stood for Black Lives? |
19 CUNY Law Review 91 (Winter 2015) |
I. Introduction: Purvi Shah. 91 II. Colette Pichon Battle. 95 III. Vincent Warren. 103 IV. Alicia Garza. 107 V. Elle Hearns. 111 VI. Carl Williams. 113 VII. Norris Henderson. 117 VIII. Umi Selah. 121 IX. Maurice Moe Mitchell. 126 |
2015 |
| Paul Filippelli |
Reaction to "The Old Boss the Same as the New Boss?: Critiques and Plaudits of Michelle Alexander's New Jim Crow Metaphor" |
7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 199 (Spring, 2015) |
Jonathan Wood's note exploring the strengths and weaknesses in Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, offers much-needed insight into aspects that have not often been discussed in the debate on mass incarceration. Alexander's book has gained national attention by comparing incarceration of... |
2015 |
| Chuck Henson |
Reflections on Ferguson: What's Wrong with Black People? |
80 Missouri Law Review 1013 (Fall, 2015) |
After Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, it seemed as if it was the summer of 1967 again. The same series of events that happened in Newark and Detroit in 1967 happened in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. A white man shot and killed a black man. The predominantly black population protested, rioted, and looted. The... |
2015 |
| Kim Diane Loewen |
Reframing Hate Crimes: Identifying and Combatting the Systems of Violent Oppression That Converge upon Queer Black Women |
36 Women's Rights Law Reporter 137 (Winter 2015) |
This article aims to deconstruct and problematize the common notion that a single strain of personal animus can be blamed every time a hate crime is perpetrated against a queer person. Instead, in the United States, there are complicated and intertwined systems of violent oppression that propel these ongoing violent acts against individuals which... |
2015 |
| Hannibal Travis |
Reparations for Mass Atrocities as a Path to Peace: after Kiobel V. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Can Victims Seek Relief at the International Criminal Court? |
40 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 547 (2015) |
Introduction. 548 I. Legal Responses to Transnational Dangers in the Vision of the American Founders. 556 A. The Quest for Original Understandings. 556 B. The Original Understanding of the Judicial Power Over the Law of Nations. 559 C. The Development of Institutions for Responding to Transnational Dangers. 565 II. The Trend Toward Impunity for... |
2015 |
| Nickolas Kaplan |
Reparations Now!: Municipal Reparations, International Tribunals, and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials Campaign |
20 Public Interest Law Reporter 116 (Spring, 2015) |
Chicago is an epicenter of systemic anti-black state violence. The murder of Fred Hampton, the torture ring of Chicago Police Department Commander Jon Burge, and the domestic equivalent of CIA black site at Homan Square are just the tip of the iceberg. Almost 500 people have been killed by U.S. law enforcement in 2015 as of June 1, with the... |
2015 |
| Katrin B. Anacker |
Saving While Black: from the Freedman's Savings Bank, to Public Policy Missing in Action, to a New Downpayment Savings Product and Policy |
34 No. 12 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report 11 (December, 2015) |
In an article published in The Atlantic in June 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates argued for the case of reparations. Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole. Reparations would... |
2015 |
| Reginald Leamon Robinson |
Seen but Not Recognized: Black Caregivers, Childhood Cruelties, and Social Dislocations in an Increasingly Colored America |
117 West Virginia Law Review 1273 (Spring, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 1274 II. A Child's Basic Need for Recognition: Does Childhood Cruelty Correlate with or Cause Social Dislocations (or Self-Perpetuating Pathologies)?. 1284 A. Miller, Perry, and van der Kolk: A Conceptual Framework. 1284 B. Our Nation's Most Preventable Cruelty. 1290 C. The Brain's Response to Present, Immediate Threat of Childhood... |
2015 |
| Patrick A. Dawson |
Slaves, the Law, and the Banality of Horror |
23 Journal of Southern Legal History 161 (2015) |
Horror comes in many forms. Several are readily evident in the recent movie 12 Years A Slave. With slavery, the slave-holding states peculiar institution, there is horror in fading ink, yellowed paper, and dusty books. Having always loved the law and law books, I often enjoy looking through the pages of old Georgia Reports. There are interesting... |
2015 |
| DeLeith Duke Gossett |
Take off the [Color] Blinders: How Ignoring the Hague Convention's Subsidiarity Principle Furthers Structural Racism Against Black American Children |
55 Santa Clara Law Review 261 (2015) |
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. ~ Robert Frost Introduction. 262 I. Race and Colorblindness in America. 266 A. Colorblindness as an Aspirational Goal. 268 B. Co-opting Colorblindness to Keep the Status Quo. 272 1. Restrictive v. Structural Racism. 272 2. Bell's Interest Convergence... |
2015 |
| Samuel E. McCargo |
Taney's Negroes Can the Court Un-ring the Bell? |
94-MAY Michigan Bar Journal 42 (May, 2015) |
They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect .. This opinion was at that time fixed and universal in the civilized portion of... |
2015 |
| Ayesha Bell Hardaway |
The Breach of the Common Law Trust Relationship Between the United States and African Americans: a Substantive Right to Reparations |
39 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 525 (2015) |
You don't simply say I'm sorry to the man you've robbed. You return what you stole or your apology takes on a hollow ring. Introduction. 526 I. An Overview of African American Reparations Claims. 529 A. Waivers of Sovereign Immunity. 531 1. The Federal Tort Claims Act. 533 2. The Tucker Act. 533 B. Notable African American Reparations Claims.... |
2015 |
| Jennifer M. Smith |
The Color of Pain: Blacks and the U.s. Health Care System-can the Affordable Care Act Help to Heal a History of Injustice? Part I |
72 National Lawyers Guild Review 238 (Winter 2015) |
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. --The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1940, when Moses A. Robinson was only 13 years old, he wanted to go to a movie in his hometown of Franklin, Louisiana. Because of the segregation and overt racism of the time, his mother preferred that he not go alone,... |
2015 |
| Jessica Williams |
The Consequences of Florida's Discretionary Direct File Law and its Particular Impact on Young African American Males |
9 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 57 (Spring 2015) |
In July of 2014, eighteen-year-old Ivins Rosier was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison for a burglary he committed in 2012 when he was only sixteen. During the burglary, Rosier and two other juveniles broke into the home of a Florida Highway Patrol Trooper and fatally shot the Trooper's retired police dog. Charged as an adult, Rosier's... |
2015 |
| Jeffrey M. Schmitt |
The Federal Right to Recover Fugitive Slaves: an Absolute but Self-defeating Property Right |
2 Savannah Law Review 21 (2015) |
Modern property scholarship recognizes that the key to understanding property law is recognizing that [p]roperty rights are limited by and exist in conjunction with the rights of others. In the antebellum era, slave owners' property rights in fugitive slaves who had escaped into the North existed in tension with the rights of free blacks who... |
2015 |
| Charles R. Lawrence III |
The Fire this Time: Black Lives Matter, Abolitionist Pedagogy and the Law |
65 Journal of Legal Education 381 (November, 2015) |
It seems as if I have been teaching Ferguson all of my adult life. In the fall of 1964 I applied to Yale Law School, and the admissions office encouraged me to supplement my written application with an interview. As I rode a Greyhound bus to New Haven I read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, a paperback copy purchased for seventy-five cents... |
2015 |
| Nick J. Sciullo |
The Ghosts of White Supremacy: Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and the Specters of Black Criminality |
117 West Virginia Law Review 1397 (Spring, 2015) |
I. Introduction. 1397 II. A Hauntology of the Criminal. 1400 III. Black Letter Law's Photographic Negative. 1405 IV. Hope, Not Pessimism, and Surely Not Optimism. 1406 V. Conclusion. 1407 |
2015 |
| Bonnie Urciuoli |
The Metaculture of Law School Admissions: a Commentary on Lazarus-black and Globokar |
22 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 113 (2015) |
What does it mean for law school applicants to become, as Mindie Lazarus-Black and Julie Globokar put it, what the ranking[s] count[]? What does it mean for foreign applicants to develop responses to the application process by writing essays in certain ways, to project themselves (again as Lazarus-Black and Globokar put it) as commodified... |
2015 |
| Lisa Chaiet, J.D., 2016 (U.C. Berkeley) |
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander. The New Press, 2011. 296 Pages. |
36 Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law 261 (2015) |
In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander argues that the current American criminal justice system--from first-time traffic stops to post-incarceration felony laws--is a system of legalized racial control, analogous in many ways to southern Jim Crow laws. She aims to show that if mass incarceration is... |
2015 |
| Jonathan Wood |
The Old Boss the Same as the New Boss?: Critiques and Plaudits of Michelle Alexander's New Jim Crow Metaphor |
7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 175 (Spring, 2015) |
New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses. Michelle Alexander is the most well-known of the numerous critics who have recently decried America's policy of mass incarceration. It is unquestionably true that crime enforcement has had a devastating impact on the African-American community and has created... |
2015 |
| Hon. Terrance A. Keith |
Theme Introduction |
94-MAY Michigan Bar Journal 21 (May, 2015) |
The June 1985 Blacks in the Law edition of the Michigan Bar Journal brought attention to some of the many contributions of black lawyers in the pursuit of equal opportunity and equal justice under law. At the time, I had just been admitted to the bar and was so taken with the articles that I looked forward to being among the impressive array of... |
2015 |
| Vinay Harpalani |
To Be White, Black, or Brown? South Asian Americans and the Race-color Distinction |
14 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 609 (2015) |
People often use race and color terminology interchangeably in common parlance. When the renowned African American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois stated that the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, he was referring to rampant and overt racism faced by African Americans and non-European peoples all over the world. Within the... |
2015 |
| Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Catherine O'Rourke, Aisling Swaine |
Transforming Reparations for Conflict-related Sexual Violence: Principles and Practice |
28 Harvard Human Rights Journal 97 (Spring 2015) |
The United Nations Secretary-General's adoption of a Guidance Note on Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence (2014) marks an important supplement to recent normative developments in the area of gender-sensitive reparations. Despite these progressive normative advances, there remain conceptual gaps in the legal and policy framework for... |
2015 |
| Martha E. Lang, Ph.D., Chloe E. Bird, Ph.D. |
Understanding and Addressing the Common Roots of Racial Health Disparities: the Case of Cardiovascular Disease & Hiv/aids in African Americans |
25 Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine 109 (2015) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 110 I. Health Disparities, Constrained Choice, and Intersectionality. 112 A. Morbidity & Mortality Disparities. 112 B. Constrained Choice. 115 C. Intersectionality. 118 II. Guiding Propositions of an Intersectional Constrained Choice Approach to Health Disparities. 119 A. Neighborhood Effects. 119 B. The Role of... |
2015 |
| Sherri Lee Keene |
Victim or Thug? Examining the Relevance of Stories in Cases Involving Shootings of Unarmed Black Males |
58 Howard Law Journal 845 (Spring, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 845 I. DIVERSE PERSPECTIVES ABOUT THE ROLE OF RACE IN THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM. 847 II. THE ROLE OF STORIES IN JURY DECISION-MAKING. 849 III. STORIES ABOUT UNARMED AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES SHOT BY POLICE. 851 IV. ADDRESSING RACE IN THE COURTROOM. 854 |
2015 |
| John G. Browning , Chief Justice Carolyn Wright |
We Stood on Their Shoulders: the First African American Attorneys in Texas |
59 Howard Law Journal 55 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 56 I. ALLEN W. WILDER--THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWYER IN TEXAS?. 59 II. W.A. PRICE. 63 III. JOHN N. JOHNSON, AUSTIN CRUSADER. 68 IV. GEORGE FREMONT--FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN MEMBER OF THE SAN ANTONIO BAR. 70 V. J.H. WILLIAMS AND THE TRAILBLAZERS IN DALLAS. 73 VI. OTHER EARLY AFRICAN AMERICAN ATTORNEYS ACROSS THE STATE. 79 A. After... |
2015 |
| Gregory S. Parks , Shayne E. Jones , Rashawn Ray , Matthew W. Hughey , Jonathan M. Cox |
White Boys Drink, Black Girls Yell . . .: a Racialized and Gendered Analysis of Violent Hazing and the Law |
18 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 93 (Winter 2015) |
I. Introduction:. 94 A. The Cultural Roots of Hazing. 97 1. Rites of Passage and the Anthropological Foundations of Hazing. 97 2. The History and Evolution of Hazing in Higher Education. 100 a. Hazing in New World Universities. 104 b. Hazing in American Fraternities and Sororities. 105 c. Hazing Opposition. 108 II. Hazing and the Law. 109 A.... |
2015 |
| Richard Delgado |
Why Obama? An Interest Convergence Explanation of the Nation's First Black President |
33 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 345 (Summer, 2015) |
This Essay continues a trilogy of efforts devoted to extending Derrick Bell's intellectual legacy. Earlier, I identified strands in Bell's scholarship in the period immediately preceding his death. These clues show that Bell was intrigued by law's violence and was approaching a broad synthesis explaining how and why law sometimes reinforces... |
2015 |
| Christopher J. Bryant |
Without Representation, No Taxation: Free Blacks, Taxes, and Tax Exemptions Between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars |
21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 91 (Fall, 2015) |
This Essay is the first general survey of the taxation of free Blacks in free and slave states between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. A few states treated all equally for tax purposes, but most states enacted taxation systems that subjected free Blacks to different requirements. Both free and slave states viewed free Blacks as an undesirable... |
2015 |
| Angela Irvine, Ph.D. |
You Can't Run from the Police!: Developing a Feminist Criminology That Incorporates Black Transgender Women |
44 Southwestern Law Review 553 (2015) |
BreakOUT! Members and Staff BreakOUT! is a community-based organization in New Orleans that fights the criminalization of queer and transgender youth of color. Here is an excerpt from their report, We Deserve Better: Lee-Lee is a young Black transgender woman who moved here for college and is a Sophomore at a local university. She is also a... |
2015 |
| Thomas M. Antkowiak |
A Dark Side of Virtue: the Inter-american Court and Reparations for Indigenous Peoples |
25 Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law L. 1 (Fall 2014) |
INTRODUCTION. 2 I. REMEDIES IN INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. 5 A. Overview. 5 B. Remedies for Indigenous Peoples in International Law. 10 II. THE INTER-AMERICAN COURT'S CASE LAW: REPARATIONS FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES. 17 A. Introduction. 17 1. Definition and Case Selection. 17 2. The Court's General Criteria for Monetary and... |
2014 |
| Jennifer Sumi Kim |
A Father's Race to Custody: an Argument for Multidimensional Masculinities for Black Men |
16 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 32 (2014) |
This Article applies masculinities theory to custody proceedings in family court and, in particular, applies the theory of bipolar black masculinity to black fathers. This Article explores the two extreme images of black men: 1) the default image of the excessively masculine Bad Black Man, who is seen as animalistic, inherently criminal, and... |
2014 |
| Jenny Bourne |
A Stone of Hope: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its Impact on the Economic Status of Black Americans |
74 Louisiana Law Review 1195 (Summer, 2014) |
Fifty years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (CRA) carved American law anew. In particular, Title VII forbade employers, employment agencies, and labor organizations larger than a certain size from discriminating against individuals due to their race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Some have viewed Title VII as mostly symbolic because... |
2014 |
| Daniel P. Tokaji Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law |
Alabama Democratic Conference |
42 No. 2 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 74 (11/3/2014) |
The Alabama Legislative Black Caucus and Alabama Democratic Conference challenge the Alabama 2012 state legislative districting plans on the ground that they impermissibly classify voters on the basis of race in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. Plaintiffs rely on the line of racial gerrymandering beginning with Shaw v. Reno, 509 U.S. 630... |
2014 |
| Hope Lewis |
Appendix |
32 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 363 (Summer, 2014) |
Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), a Pan-Africanist and Back-to-Africa Movement. Born in Jamaica, moved to the United States, eventually deported. Orator, political activist, actor, singer, athlete, international human rights advocate. African-American born in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founder and General... |
2014 |
| Tamar W. Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology |
Brian Purnell, Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: the Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013, Pp. 353. $40 Cloth (Isbn 978-0-8131-4182-4) |
32 Law and History Review 444 (May, 2014) |
Brian Purnell's important Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings chronicles the Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1960 to 1964. In these years, Brooklyn CORE's interracial membership launched creative, nonviolent, direct action campaigns that sought to make visible and to eliminate racial discrimination in housing, employment,... |
2014 |
| Matthew Fowler |
Building Social Capital Through Place-based Lawmaking: Case Studies of Two Afro-caribbean Communities in Miami--the West Grove and Little Haiti |
45 University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 425 (Spring 2014) |
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other's lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among... |
2014 |
| Susan D. Carle |
Conceptions of Agency in Social Movement Scholarship: Mack on African American Civil Rights Lawyers |
39 Law and Social Inquiry 522 (Spring, 2014) |
Mack, Kenneth w. 2012. Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pp. 330. $35.00 cloth. This essay examines the theory of individual agency that propels the central thesis in Kenneth Mack's Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (2012)--namely, that an important... |
2014 |
| Jonathan Stahler |
Creating an Equitable Playing Field: Vital Protections for Male Athletes in Revenue-generating Sports Who Are Predominantly African-american |
3 Arizona State Sports & Entertainment Law Journal 422 (Spring, 2014) |
Cardale Jones recently declared on the online social networking service, Twitter, Why should we have to go to class if we came here to play FOOTBALL, we ain't come to play SCHOOL classes are POINTLESS. In that statement, Cardale Jones, a freshman at Ohio State University, who is also the third-string quarterback for the Buckeyes football team,... |
2014 |
| Marissa Jackson |
Crossing the Bridge: African-americans and the Necessity of a 21st Century Human Rights Movement |
5 Human Rights & Globalization Law Review 56 (Fall, 2013-Spring, 2014) |
We have injected ourselves into the civil rights struggle, and we intend to expand it from the level of civil rights to the level of human rights. As long as you're fighting on the level of civil rights, you're under Uncle Sam's jurisdiction. You're going to his court expecting him to correct the problem. He created the problem. He's the criminal.... |
2014 |
| Elizabeth Brown, Department of Criminal Justice Studies, San Francisco State University |
Disposable Heroes: the Betrayal of African American Veterans. By Benjamin Fleury-steiner. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012. 200 Pp. $36.00 |
48 Law and Society Review 481 (June, 2014) |
It is not often that one reads an academic book and is transported into another world, where the words of research subjects dominate, and the stories are left bare to expose the raw, entangled webs that make up people's lives. Benjamin Fleury-Steiner's Disposable Heroes accomplishes this task in an eminently readable and engaging book that details... |
2014 |
| Eteena J. Tadjiogueu |
Fifty Shades of Black: Challenging the Monolithic Treatment of "Black or African American" Candidates on Law School Admissions Applications |
44 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 133 (2014) |
Law school applicants who identify as Black or African American are afforded little opportunity to identify more specifically their ancestral or cultural heritage, if it is known, on law school admissions applications. Seemingly, some law schools have not found it necessary to allow certain groups, such as Haitian Americans, Black Britons,... |
2014 |
| Hope Lewis |
Globalization's People: Black Identities in U.s.-caribbean Encounters |
32 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 349 (Summer, 2014) |
Transnationalism has a significant, yet often under-recognized, impact on the complex racial identities of both Black migrant and native-born African-American communities throughout their colonial, independence, and post-colonial histories. This commentary discusses how the U.S. legal, political, economic, and cultural discourse on race is... |
2014 |
| Michael Phillips, Collin College |
Gordon K. Mantler, Power to the Poor: Black-brown Coalition & the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Pp. 362. $34.95 Cloth (Isbn 978-0-8078-3851-8). Pete Daniel, Dispossession: Discrimination Agai |
32 Law and History Review 441 (May, 2014) |
Two recent books released by the University of North Carolina Press imaginatively and provocatively reveal underexplored chapters of twentieth century African American civil rights history. In Power to the Poor: Black-Brown Coalition & the Fight for Economic Justice, 1960-1974, Gordon Mantler turns conventional wisdom on its head. He argues that... |
2014 |