| Martin Summers |
Manhood Rights in the Age of Jim Crow: Evaluating "End-of-men" Claims in the Context of African American History |
93 Boston University Law Review 745 (May, 2013) |
American history has seen its share of episodic crises of American masculinity. Or, to be more precise, American history has seen its share of periods during which American men experienced a heightened, collective anxiety that they were in danger of losing not only their privileged status in society, but the very foundational ideals by which... |
2013 |
| Carol L. Zeiner |
Marching Across the Putative Black/white Race Line: a Convergence of Narratology, History, and Theory |
33 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 249 (Spring, 2013) |
Abstract: This Article introduces a category of women who, until now, have been omitted from the scholarly literature on the civil rights movement: northern white women who lived in the South and became active in the civil rights movement, while intending to continue to live in the South on a permanent basis following their activism. Prior to their... |
2013 |
| Brett DeGroff |
Michelle Alexander, the New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New York: the New Press, 2010. 290 Pp. |
70 National Lawyers Guild Review 10 (Spring, 2013) |
The policies of mass incarceration have failed as badly as any embarked on in this country. Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow details those failures from the historic roots of the policies through their misguided modern manifestations. The book shows the perverse financial incentives for law enforcement agencies to incarcerate massive numbers... |
2013 |
| Christie Stancil Matthews |
Missing Faith in Batson: Continued Discrimination Against African Americans Through Religion-based Peremptory Challenges |
23 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 45 (Fall 2013) |
African Americans continue to be routinely and disproportionately excluded from juries over a quarter of a century after the United States Supreme Court, in Batson v. Kentucky, set forth a framework for flushing out racial discrimination in the exercise of peremptory challenges. Since that decision, the weaknesses of the Batson framework and its... |
2013 |
| Kristin Tennyson Graham, Marian J. Borg, Bryan Lee Miller |
Mobilizing Law in Latin America: an Evaluation of Black's Theory in Brazil |
38 Law and Social Inquiry 322 (Spring, 2013) |
This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociological theories proposed to explain legal behavior in Western societies applicable to non-Western contexts? And second, to what degree is Black's theory of law generalizable, as he contends, across time and space? Our research merges these questions by... |
2013 |
| Alexandra Muolo |
Not So Black and White: the Third Circuit Upholds Race-conscious Redistricting in Doe ex Rel. Doe V. Lower Merion School District |
58 Villanova Law Review 797 (2013) |
This Nation has a moral and ethical obligation to fulfill its historic commitment to creating an integrated society that ensures equal opportunity for all of its children. Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark decision, symbolizing the end of legalized racial discrimination. The commitment of Brown was to provide equal educational... |
2013 |
| Robin Walker Sterling |
On Surviving Legal De-education: an Allegory for a Renaissance in Legal Education |
91 Denver University Law Review 211 (2013) |
They had done it. After three long years, three of the members of the graduating class of 2035 of Denver Law sat together over burgers at Crimson & Gold, the local student hangout that had sustained them through countless hours of studying, memorizing, outlining, and learning. Geneva Johnson could not believe that she had just graduated from law... |
2013 |
| Nekima Levy-Pounds |
Par for the Course?: Exploring the Impacts of Incarceration and Marginalization on Poor Black Men in the U.s. |
14 Journal of Law in Society 29 (Winter, 2013) |
I. Introduction. 29 II. The War on Drugs as a War on the Black Family?. 36 A. Children of Incarcerated Parents. 42 B. Impacts on Poor Black Men. 45 C. The Connection between the Thirteenth Amendment and the Criminal Justice System. 50 III. Race, Poverty & Incarceration in Detroit. 55 IV. Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions. 60 V.... |
2013 |
| Irving Joyner |
Pimping Brown V. Board of Education: the Destruction of African-american Schools and the Mis-education of African-american Students |
35 North Carolina Central Law Review 160 (2013) |
Etched in the annals of civil rights and education law is the landmark United States Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (Brown I). This decision was monumental as it boldly overruled the separate but equal mandate the Supreme Court previously announced in Plessy v. Ferguson. The decision in Plessy was relied upon by many states... |
2013 |
| Kindaka Jamal Sanders |
Re-assembling Osiris: Rule 23, the Black Farmers Case, and Reparations |
118 Penn State Law Review 339 (Fall 2013) |
This Article examines why the Black Farmers case, a series of legal events involving claims of racial discrimination by African-American farmers against the federal government, may technically qualify as a slavery reparations case. This Article also explores how the case became a viable slavery reparations case in a legal and political environment... |
2013 |
| Richael Faithful |
Response to Brett Degroff's Book Review of the New Jim Crow Michelle Alexander, the New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New York: the New Mress, 2010. 290 Pp. |
70 National Lawyers Guild Review 122 (Summer, 2013) |
Professor Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is one of the most influential political books of the new century. It delivers two appeals. First, she urges that the current mass incarceration crisis, taking form over three decades of bi-partisan tough on crime political rhetoric, demands immediate... |
2013 |
| Christopher Watts |
Road to the Poll: How the Wisconsin Voter Id Law of 2011 Is Disenfranchising its Poor, Minority, and Elderly Citizens |
3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 119 (2013) |
The right to vote has been irrefutably established as one of the most treasured and fundamental rights guaranteed to citizens by the United States Constitution, and Wisconsin's Act 23 (Act 23) violates this standard. In May 2011, the Wisconsin legislature passed this act, which mandated that any person attempting to vote in person or via absentee... |
2013 |
| Ariela Gross , Alejandro de la Fuente |
Slaves, Free Blacks, and Race in the Legal Regimes of Cuba, Louisiana, and Virginia: a Comparison |
91 North Carolina Law Review 1699 (June, 2013) |
This Article analyzes the legal regimes regulating slavery and race at the ground level as they evolved in three different locations in the Americas (Virginia, Cuba, and Louisiana), showing how they shaped, and were shaped in turn, by the actions of people of color. The Article attempts to compare law from the bottom up: regulatory efforts by... |
2013 |
| Herbert Fain , Kimberly Fain |
Socio-economic Status and Legal Factors Affecting African American Fathers |
21 Buffalo Journal of Gender, Law & Social Policy Pol'y 1 (2012-2013) |
Class, ethnicity, education, employment status, and the law are all factors that impact a father's involvement in his children's lives. Scholars like W.E.B. Dubois had argued all along, however, that African American female-headed families were the outcome, rather than the cause, of racial oppression and poverty. According to the 2000 U.S.... |
2013 |
| Mena Ghaly |
The Fair Sentencing Act of 2010 and Federal Cocaine Sentencing Policy-- How Congress Continues to Allow Implicit Racial Animus Towards African Americans to Permeate Federal Cocaine Sentencing |
14 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 135 (2013) |
On November 4, 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected President of the United States in a landslide victory over his opponent, becoming the first African American President. Commentators and journalists alike heralded President Obama's victory a [t]ransformation of America and the beginning of a post-racial society. The host of a popular news... |
2013 |
| Marcia C. Arceneaux, J.D., Ph.D. |
The Impact of the Special Education System on the Black-white Achievement Gap: Signs of Hope for a Unified System of Education |
59 Loyola Law Review 381 (Summer 2013) |
In this installment, the Loyola Law Review is proud to publish the personal and legal insights of Dr. Marcia Arceneaux, gathered from over forty years in the special education field. In this Article Dr. Arceneaux first examines, from an eyewitness point of view, past models in special education and their subsequent exacerbation of related civil... |
2013 |
| Dana E. Prescott |
The Modern "World" of Families Sure Is Flat and Noisy: a Book Review: Ann Laquer Estin, International Family Law Desk Book |
26 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 209 (2013) |
Professor Ann Laquer Estin has written an excellent book for practitioners that combines comprehensive scholarship, clear writing, and useful citations. As a decades-long consumer of law books designed and marketed as desk books, I have developed a mental checklist (or bias) by which I assess value: (1) Does the table of contents and index allow me... |
2013 |
| Patricia M. Muhammad |
The Trans-atlantic Slave Trade: a Legacy Establishing a Case for International Reparations |
3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 147 (2013) |
This Article examines the legal principle of restitution (reparations) as applied to crimes against humanity that were committed as a result of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade, as enumerated in international conventions and statutes. The Trans-Atlantic Slave trade's peculiar attractiveness to Western nation-states that implemented the institution... |
2013 |
| Jasmine A. Williams |
Unemployed (And Black) Need Not Apply: a Discussion of Unemployment Discrimination, its Disparate Impact on the Black Community, and Proposed Legal Remedies |
56 Howard Law Journal 629 (Winter, 2013) |
INTRODUCTION. 630 I. NATURE OF THE PROBLEM AND ITS EFFECT ON THE BLACK COMMUNITY. 635 II. THE PROPOSED PRIVATE CAUSE OF ACTION. 637 A. Proposed Cause of Action for Hiring Discrimination Based on Employment Status. 637 B. History and Development of Title VII. 638 C. Disparate Treatment Cause of Action Under Title VII. 639 1. Explanation of the Law.... |
2013 |
| Gregory S. Parks, , Shayne E. Jones, , Matthew W. Hughey |
Victimology, Personality, and Hazing: a Study of Black Greek-letter Organizations |
36 North Carolina Central Law Review 16 (2013) |
Robert Champion died on 19 November 2011. A twenty-six year old clarinet player and drum major in Florida A&M University's (FAMU) Marching 100 band, collapsed on a charter bus parked outside an Orlando Hotel following a Marching 100 performance at the Florida Classic football game, played between rivals FAMU and Bethune-Cookman. Champion, a... |
2013 |
| Frank Rudy Cooper |
We Are Always Already Imprisoned: Hyper-incarceration and Black Male Identity Performance |
93 Boston University Law Review 1185 (May, 2013) |
Introduction. 1185 I. The Circuit of Identities. 1188 II. Naturalization of the Hyper-Incarceration of Black Men. 1189 A. How the Drug War Naturalized the Image of Black Men as Criminals. 1190 B. The Naturalization of Lack of Empathy for Black Men. 1194 1. The End of Men as Naturalizing Black Men's Imprisonment. 1194 2. Strip Search Doctrine as... |
2013 |
| Brando Simeo Starkey |
You're an Uncle Tom!: the Behavioral Regulation of Blacks on the Right Side of the Criminal Justice System |
15 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 37 (2013) |
You're an Uncle Tom! From within the black community harsher words are seldom exclaimed. Indeed, Uncle Tom is the most injurious pejorative blacks can sling at one another. No one is impervious. Many famous blacks, in fact, have stomached the heavy blow of this potent slur. Booker T. Washington, for instance, was censured because the most... |
2013 |
| Angela Mae Kupenda |
(Re)complexioning a Simple Tale: Race, Speech, and Colored Leadership |
48 California Western Law Review 399 (Spring 2012) |
In the initial plenary session of LatCrit XVI, several speakers discussed the borderlands and the desolation in these areas. The borderlands have expanded as negative reactions to the increasing number of people of color seeking access to both the geographical spaces of what is America and the power spaces of who is America. Increases of colored... |
2012 |
| Gloria J. Browne-Marshall |
A Cautionary Tale: Black Women, Criminal Justice, and Hiv |
19 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 407 (Spring 2012) |
For two decades, the face of HIV/AIDS was a White gay male. Now, in its third decade, the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic is African-American. AIDS was first recognized by the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) in June of 1981. HIV is the virus by which AIDS is transmitted. Although Black men are disproportionately infected with HIV, the infection rate... |
2012 |
| Benjamin Zimmer |
A Deregulatory Framework for Alleviating Concentrated African-american Poverty |
9 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 555 (Summer 2012) |
In 1967, Norman Rockwell released the painting New Kids in the Neighborhood, which depicts an African-American family moving to a white suburb. The painting focuses on the interaction of the family's children with three white children in the driveway of their new home. The children eye each other with trepidation, but their faces convey more... |
2012 |
| Sara Gronningsater |
A Patient's Right to Choose Is Not Always Black and White: Long Term Care Facility Discrimination and the Color of Care |
26 Journal of Civil Rights & Economic Development 329 (Winter 2012) |
In recent years, employers in the medical field have been confronted with patients' requests to have a care provider of a specific race. Such requests have put these care providers in a legal and ethical bind, balancing the need to adhere to patient preferences while also protecting care providers' rights under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of... |
2012 |
| Kathleen J. England , Prof. Rachel J. Anderson |
About this Special Black History Month Issue |
20-FEB Nevada Lawyer 6 (February, 2012) |
Black History Month is devoted to honoring and celebrating the achievements and contributions of African Americans as well as recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. Black History Month is the successor to Negro History Week, which was started in 1926 by Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950). Dr. Woodson was a historian, the... |
2012 |
| Calvin L. Lewis, Texas Tech University |
Adriane Lentz-smith. Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I. Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2009. 336 Pp. $35.00 (Cloth) |
52 American Journal of Legal History 256 (April, 2012) |
If you could only read one book that evaluates the African-American experience during World War I, it should be Freedom Struggles. It is a brilliant and forceful commentary on the role of World War I in the evolution of freedom and civil rights for African-Americans. It analyzes the war's impact on different African-American soldiers and how it... |
2012 |
| Charles W. McKinney, Jr., Rhodes College |
Anders Walker. The Ghost of Jim Crow: How Southern Moderates Used Brown V. Board of Education to Stall Civil Rights. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 256 Pp. $34.95 (Cloth) |
52 American Journal of Legal History 565 (October, 2012) |
Over the course of the last two decades, scholars of the civil rights movement have revisited the systematic opposition to the black struggle for equality. For far too long, the theory of massive resistance dominated the historical landscape. According to this theory, federal ambivalence in the wake of the Brown decision enabled the rapid growth... |
2012 |
| Helen Paillé |
Black Female Inmates' Reproductive Rights: Cutting the Chains of Colorblind Constitutionalism |
3 William Mitchell Law Raza Journal 1 (Spring 2012) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 3 II. CHAINS OF SLAVERY 4 A. DENIAL OF BODILY AUTONOMY 5 B. DENIAL OF REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL 6 III. CHAINS OF STEEL 8 A. SHAWANNA NELSON'S STORY 8 B. CONSEQUENCES OF SHACKLING: MEDICAL & SOCIAL 11 1. Medical Consequences 11 2. Social Consequences 12 C. QUESTIONABLE JUSFICATIONS 12 D. LEGALITY 13 1. A Widespread... |
2012 |
| Gwen Hoerr Jordan, University of Illinois-Springfield |
Cheryl D. Hicks, Talk with You like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935, Chapel Hill: the University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. 372. $65 Cloth, $24.95 Paper (Isbn 978-0-8078-7162-1) |
30 Law and History Review 285 (February, 2012) |
White and black women reformers living in the United States urban North during the era of Jim Crow predominately sought to instill standards of respectability in working-class immigrant and black migrant women in their communities. Black women reformers, who were working to establish their own place of respectability in the social order, employed... |
2012 |
| Kunal M. Parker, University of Miami |
Christian G. Samito. Becoming American under Fire: Irish Americans, African Americans, and the Politics of Citizenship During the Civil War Era. Ithaca, Ny: Cornell University Press, 2009. 305 Pp. $39.95 (Cloth) |
52 American Journal of Legal History 553 (October, 2012) |
In Becoming American Under Fire, Christian Samito offers us a finely grained portrait of how African-American and Irish-American participation in the Civil War changed the meanings of U.S. citizenship, not only for both groups, but for Americans generally and in ways that continue to affect us. In the decade preceding the Civil War, the U.S.... |
2012 |
| Perry L. Moriearty , William Carson |
Cognitive Warfare and Young Black Males in America |
15 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 281 (Spring 2012) |
During the 1990s, deep into America's Wars on Crime and Drugs, an incursion commenced against a target that had, to that point, remained largely outside the crosshairs. Prompted by rising crime rates and a handful of high-profile incidents, politicians, the media, and much of the public became consumed by what they characterized as a looming... |
2012 |
| Cynthia Hawkins DeBose |
Colonial White Mater Privilege: an Above-ground Railroad to Freedom and Land Reclamation |
55 Howard Law Journal 455 (Winter 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 457 I. Anti-Miscegenation Statutes. 459 II. Thesis--Colonial White Mater Privilege. 463 III. Colonial Maryland: A Mixing of the Races. 464 IV. The Tayles of the Whyte Matriarchs. 467 A. The Shorter Family. 467 B. The Hawkins Family. 468 V. Petitions for Freedom & Land Reclamation Cases: Testing the Theory in Maryland. 469 A. William &... |
2012 |
| Gary S. Katzmann |
Count Them One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote. By Gordon A. Martin, Jr. 2010 |
47 New England Law Review 351 (Winter 2012) |
Epic struggles give rise to great books. The struggle for civil rights in this country evidences this truth. Appropriately, books have documented the sweep of the civil rights movement : the challenges of leadership, the courage of those who sought justice, the role of government lawyers, the work of the public interest bar in advocating for civil... |
2012 |
| Reginald Leamon Robinson |
Dark Secrets: Obedience Training, Rigid Physical Violence, Black Parenting, and Reassessing the Origins of Instability in the Black Family Through a Re-reading of Fox Butterfield's All God's Children |
55 Howard Law Journal 393 (Winter 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 394 I. BAD NIGGERS AND THE EVIL IMPULSIVENESS GENE: MISREADING THE ETIOLOGY OF WILLIE JAMES BOSKET'S RAGE AND RESENTMENT. 403 II. BLINDED SCHOLARS AND BLACK FAMILY INSTABILITY: ANALYSES THAT MUST NEVER FAULT WELL-MEANING PARENTS. 425 III. I'M NO AVERAGE CAT: SELF-ANNIHILATING BAD NIGGERS, EXPURGATING EMASCULAT- ING BLACK... |
2012 |
| Nerissa-Anne D. Robinson |
Deferring Environmental Justice in Mississippi: Agency Deference Legacy Impacts Southern Black Communities |
6 Southern Region Black Law Students Association Law Journal 100 (Spring 2012) |
Case Note of the Year Some may wish they were in Dixie, but for residents of Hinds County, Mississippi, this is questionable. Their home has become a hot spot for garbage dumps. Unfortunately, the problem has worsened since Mississippi courts have sided with the permitting board and commission that allowed the opening of a new dump. In Hinds... |
2012 |
| Ebonya Washington , Yale University |
Do Majority-black Districts Limit Blacks' Representation? The Case of the 1990 Redistricting |
55 Journal of Law & Economics 251 (May, 2012) |
Conventional wisdom and empirical academic research conclude that creating majority-black districts decreases black representation by increasing conservatism in Congress. However, this research generally suffers from three limitations: too low a level of aggregation, lack of a counterfactual, and failure to account for the endogeneity of the... |
2012 |
| Honor Sachs |
Freedom by a Judgment: the Legal History of an Afro-indian Family |
30 Law and History Review 173 (February, 2012) |
On May 2, 1771, John Hardaway of Dinwiddie County, Virginia posted a notice in the Virginia Gazette about a runaway slave. The notice was ordinary, blending in with the many advertisements for escaped slaves, servants, wives, and horses that filled the classified section of the Gazette in the eighteenth century. Like countless other advertisements... |
2012 |
| Donald F. Tibbs |
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Discussing Race, Policing, and the Fourth Amendment Through the "War On" Paradigm |
15 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 47 (Winter 2012) |
Checks out the message in its rough stylee, the real criminals are the C-O-P. KRS-One I'm not the other color so police think, they have the authority to kill a minority. N.W.A. Son do you know what I'm stopping you for? Cause I'm young and I'm black and my hats real low, do I look like a mind reader sir, I don't know? Jay-Z Despite the... |
2012 |
| Melissa Milewski |
From Slave to Litigant: African Americans in Court in the Postwar South, 1865-1920 |
30 Law and History Review 723 (August, 2012) |
In 1859, after the death of his mistress, a slave named Mat Fine was taken to the Jefferson, Kentucky, County Court House in the inventory of Lucy Fine's estate as her property. There, he was inventoried along with her other possessions. Only a few years later, just after the Civil War, Fine returned to the local court house as a defendant in a... |
2012 |
| David Cavell |
Ghetto Loans: Discrimination Against African American Borrowers in Mortgage Markets and the Impact of the Ibanez Decision |
25 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 449 (Summer, 2012) |
In 2001, Wells Fargo Bank changed the commission system for their mortgage loan officers and underwriters, structuring the new system to pay employees considerably more when consumers purchased subprime loans instead of prime loans. Over the next few years, as a result of these changes, in the Annandale, Virginia office alone, many loan officers... |
2012 |
| Shari S. Lindsey, J.D. |
Global-city Status at the Expense of Black and Latino Youth: How Chicago's Tif Districts Disparately Impact Cps Students |
6 DePaul Journal for Social Justice 23 (Fall, 2012) |
On March 19, 2011, over 250 members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) and other education advocates gathered together at Jenner Elementary, one of the last neighborhood schools in Chicago's Cabrini Green area. The group was prepared to march in peaceful protest to Lincoln Park's Clybourn Corridor, where they planned to rally outside the upscale... |
2012 |
| Shaba N. Nassar |
How African-americans Can Better Maneuver in the Labor Market to Close the Black-white Employment and Income Gaps |
4 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 191 (Fall, 2012) |
A family's well-being and the opportunities of its children are influenced by factors such as income, education, and occupation. American families, however, often ignore the influence of wealth on the economic opportunities available to them. The country is becoming increasingly stratified with 40% of total income going to the wealthiest 10% of... |
2012 |
| Joshua E. Kastenberg |
Hugo Black's Vision of the Lawyer, the First Amendment, and the Duty of the Judiciary: the Bar Applicant Cases in a National Security State |
20 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 691 (March, 2012) |
Introduction. 691 I. The Court and Attorney Governance. 698 II. The Court, the Cold War, and Challenges to the Historic Model of Attorney Governance. 712 A. Anticommunist Legislation. 715 B. Federal Law on Economic Regulation and the Criminalization of Speech. 718 C. Dennis v. United States. 721 D. The Court Under Attack. 727 E. United States v.... |
2012 |
| Jonathan Sgro |
Intentional Discrimination in Farrakhan V. Gregoire: the Ninth Circuit's Voting Rights Act Standard "Results In" the New Jim Crow |
57 Villanova Law Review 139 (2012) |
Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. . . . Cotton's family tree tells the story of several generations of black men who were born in the United States but who were denied the most basic freedom that democracy promises--the freedom to vote for those who will make the rules and laws that govern one's life. Cotton's great-great-grandfather could not vote as a... |
2012 |
| Tom Tyler, New York University |
Justice in America: the Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites. By Mark Peffley and Jon Hurwitz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 276 Pp. $27.00 Paper |
46 Law and Society Review 456 (June, 2012) |
There is a large and persistent gap between Blacks and Whites in their levels of trust and confidence in the police and the courts. This gap is has been consistently revealed in national public opinions polls, is striking in its magnitude, and does not seem to be diminishing. It is important because it leads to differing interpretations of and... |
2012 |
| Camilo M. Ortiz |
Latinos Nowhere in Sight: Erased by Racism, Nativism, the Black-white Binary, and Authoritarianism |
13 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 29 (2012) |
In May 2010, two weeks after the Arizona state legislature passed Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070), Juan Varela was fatally shot in the neck by his next door neighbor, Gary Kelley. Prior to the killing, Kelley had repeatedly said to Varela, Hurry up and go back to Mexico, or you're gonna die[!] It is uncertain what specific events led Kelley to shoot... |
2012 |
| Terri L. Snyder |
Marriage on the Margins: Free Wives, Enslaved Husbands, and the Law in Early Virginia |
30 Law and History Review 141 (February, 2012) |
In 1725, Jane Webb, a free woman of color, sued Thomas Savage, a slave owner and middling planter, in Northampton County Court, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Webb v. Savage was an unusual lawsuit, the culmination of over twenty years of legal wrangling between two parties who had an uncommon and intimate connection. The case originated in a... |
2012 |
| Kate Meals |
Nurturing the Seeds of Food Justice: Unearthing the Impact of Institutionalized Racism on Access to Healthy Food in Urban African-american Communities |
15 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 97 (2012) |
I. Introduction. 98 II. Background. 103 A. Who are the Hungry?. 104 B. Enter Food Justice: A Community Movement for Change. 111 III. No Right to Food in the United States?. 114 IV. Urban Communities. 116 A. White Flight: A Brief History of Segregation and Ghettoization. 116 B. Grocery Stores Leave Urban Areas. 120 1. Transportation Barriers. 121 2.... |
2012 |