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Laquala C. Dixon, Ph.D. UNDERSTANDING THE INTERLOCKING OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION RESTRICTING THE PROFESSIONAL PROGRESSION OF BLACK WOMEN 20 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 135 (Spring, 2023) Ransford and Miller suggested that feelings towards women continue to be greatly impacted by racial oppression both past and current. In a study by Parker and Ogilvy, women of color reported that the greatest barrier to their opportunities within dominant cultural organizations was racism rather than sexism. As workplaces uphold white male... 2023
Laquala C. Dixon, Ph.D. UNDERSTANDING THE INTERLOCKING OPPRESSIVE SYSTEMS WITHIN HIGHER EDUCATION RESTRICTING THE PROFESSIONAL PROGRESSION OF BLACK WOMEN 34 Hastings Journal on Gender and the Law 135 (Spring, 2023) Ransford and Miller suggested that feelings towards women continue to be greatly impacted by racial oppression both past and current. In a study by Parker and Ogilvy, women of color reported that the greatest barrier to their opportunities within dominant cultural organizations was racism rather than sexism. As workplaces uphold white male... 2023
Muhammad Hamza Habib UNDER-TREATMENT OF PAIN IN BLACK PATIENTS: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW, CASE-BASED ANALYSIS, AND LEGALITIES AS EXPLORED THROUGH THE TENETS OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY 20 Indiana Health Law Review 63 (2023) Pain, also called the fifth vital sign is an important topic in healthcare settings. It requires urgent attention and treatment to minimize agony and discomfort. Unfortunately, multiple clinical studies conducted over the last few decades have repeatedly shown disparately inferior pain management in Black patients in medical settings when... 2023
Ming Du UNPACKING THE BLACK BOX OF CHINA'S STATE CAPITALISM 24 German Law Journal 125 (February, 2023) (Received 18 January 2023; accepted 19 January 2023) Much ink has been splashed on the ideological, conceptual, and practical challenges that China's state capitalism has posed to global trade rules. There is a growing perception that the current international trade rules are neither conceptually coherent nor practically effective in tackling... 2023
Joseline Jean-Louis Hardrick USING POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PRINCIPLES TO ASSIST BLACK STUDENTS SUCCEED IN LAW SCHOOL 17 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 39 (Spring, 2023) In its initial scene, the Shonda Rhimes-produced television show, How to Get Away with Murder has criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating entering a classroom full of eager law students. Keating, played by Viola Davis, who won an Emmy award for the role, is sharply dressed, perfectly coiffed, and confident as she approaches the chalkboard. In a... 2023
Daniel Charles Smolsky WHOSE LEDGER IS REALLY RED? CONFIDENTIAL ARBITRATION KILLED THE BLACK WIDOW 61 Duquesne Law Review 229 (Summer, 2023) I've got red in my ledger. I'd like to wipe it out. --Natasha Romanoff After filing a complaint against the Walt Disney Company in July 2021, Scarlett Johansson ensured that she would follow through with litigation to protect other Hollywood talent. Despite that assurance, Johansson settled her suit with Disney only sixty-three days after filing... 2023
Logan K. Jackson WILLFUL DISREGARD: HOW IGNORING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN MATERNAL MORTALITY HAS LED BLACK WOMEN TO BECOME INVISIBLE IN THEIR OWN CRISIS 38 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 131 (2023) Indeed, in important respects, if the general discourse that surrounds racial disparities in maternal mortality is impoverished, then we should expect that the solutions that observers propose to this problem will be impoverished as well. Introduction. 132 I. The Historical Legacy of Slavery on Black Women's Reproductive Health and Autonomy. 134 A.... 2023
Lydia Davenport WOULD JUSTICE SCALIA THINK BLACK GUNS MATTER? 47 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 1 (2023) Do Black Guns Matter? This Article considers what Justice Scalia's opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller tells us about how the law treats Black gun owners' rights. The opinion appears to tell two stories. One elevates white gun holders through three white paradigms: the colonial revolutionary, the frontiersman, and the hunter. The second... 2023
Avery Katz "BLACK FIRST, CHILDREN SECOND": WHY JUVENILE LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE VIOLATES THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE 106 Minnesota Law Review 2693 (June, 2022) On February 17, 2021, America's oldest juvenile lifer was released. News stories featured a photograph of eighty-three-year-old Joe Ligon in a puffy blue vest clutching his red cap. Ligon entered prison at age fifteen and exited sixty-eight years later. When his prison sentence commenced, racial segregation was still legal. As a juvenile, Ligon... 2022
Dr. Yohuru Williams "THE SPECIAL FAVORITE OF THE LAWS"? BLACK LIVES MATTER MOMENTS IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL HISTORY 18 University of Saint Thomas Law Journal 171 (Spring, 2022) The law no longer knows white nor black, but simply men, and consequently, we are entitled to ride in public conveyances, hold office, sit on juries, and do everything else which we have in the past been prevented from doing solely on the ground of color. (Delegate to a convention of Alabama freedmen, 1867) On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis Police... 2022
Ibad Jafri "TO GIVE TO THIS CITIZEN THAT WHICH IS HIS OWN": JUSTICE BLACK'S ORIGINALIST INTERPRETATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT CITIZENSHIP CLAUSE IN AFROYIM v. RUSK 36 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 1113 (Spring, 2022) This Note examines the evolution of Justice Hugo Black's originalist approach to the Fourteenth Amendment Citizenship Clause, culminating in the majority opinion he authored in 1967's Afroyim v. Rusk. In that landmark decision, the Court ruled that citizens of the United States may not be involuntarily deprived of their citizenship. The Court's... 2022
Sebastian O. Ross A "HISTORIC WESTSIDE" STORY: LAS VEGAS BLACK HISTORY, GAMING POLICY EFFECTS ON BLACK EMPLOYMENT, AND GAMING COMPANIES LEAVING MONEY ON THE TABLE 12 UNLV Gaming Law Journal 287 (Spring, 2022) Imagine yourself as a pop-cultural music icon, with generational talent propelling you into a social class in which many others from your background could not imagine themselves in. Your talent commands societal influence over entertainment, politics, and culture. Ultimately, your intangibles and hard work land you a contract performing on the Las... 2022
Danielle M. Conway A BLACK WOMAN LAW DEAN SPEAKS ABOUT THE PRECARITY OF LEADERSHIP 51 Southwestern Law Review 240 (2022) I. Introduction. 240 II. Professional Development as a Tool of Inclusion. 244 III. Taking A Leadership Role as an Exercise of Self-determination. 252 IV. Conclusion. 256 2022
Tucker Carrington A SHOT IN THE MOONLIGHT, HOW A FREED SLAVE AND A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER FOUGHT FOR JUSTICE IN THE JIM CROW SOUTH BY BEN MONTGOMERY, LITTLE, BROWN SPARK (2021) 46-JUL Champion 60 (July, 2022) Mississippi author Ralph Eubanks recently observed that for far too many, the complex layered narrative that comprises the historical reality of racism in this country is often edged aside by the triumphant narrative of the Civil Rights movement. In A Shot in the Moonlight: How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the... 2022
Kiah Duggins ABOLITION AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: TAIWAN'S AFFIRMATION OF BLACK AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENTS 57 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 361 (Summer, 2022) America's use of police to maintain a social order that protects the interests of white upper-class citizens is similar to Taiwan's use of a police state to protect the interests of its authoritarian regime from 1945-1987. America's history and international positionality are vastly different from Taiwan's. However, grassroots movements that... 2022
Amelia Wilson ACCESSING JUSTICE: A CALL FOR REPARATIONS FOR THE SURVIVORS OF MEDICAL ABUSE AT THE IRWIN COUNTY DETENTION CENTER 37 Maryland Journal of International Law 54 (2022) The immigrant women of Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) who survived gynecological abuse while held at a for-profit detention center in rural Georgia spoke out about their experiences to the media, investigators, and Congress--and faced reprisals from ICE for doing so. Their communication was monitored, curtailed, or revoked; some were placed... 2022
Lethia Washington ACT 259--AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY REQUIREMENT 44 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 675 (Spring, 2022) Act 259 amends the African-American history requirement for public schools to include education regarding John W. Walker. The Act provides that in all Arkansas public schools, curricula shall emphasize the historic work of American and Arkansas civil rights leaders and events during the civil rights era, including without limitation Dr. Martin... 2022
Ian Ayres , Richard Brooks , Zachary Shelley AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STILL HASN'T BEEN SHOWN TO REDUCE THE NUMBER OF BLACK LAWYERS: A RESPONSE TO SANDER 69 International Review of Law & Economics Econ. 1 (March, 2022) Received 2 March 2020 Received in revised form 17 August 2021 Accepted 26 October 2021 Available online 5 November 2021 Affirmative action Replication Peer effects Mismatch Sander (2019) attempts to revive the claim that mismatch between the credentials of students that receive racial preferences in law school admissions and the average... 2022
Daniel J. Solove , Paul M. Schwartz ALI DATA PRIVACY: OVERVIEW AND BLACK LETTER TEXT 68 UCLA Law Review 1252 (January, 2022) In this Article, the Reporters for the American Law Institute Principles of Law, Data Privacy provide an overview of the project as well as the text of its black letter. The Principles aim to provide a blueprint for policymakers to regulate privacy comprehensively and effectively. The United States has long remained an outlier in privacy law. While... 2022
Kerri M. Gefeke AMERICA TO ME--A PUBLIC NUISANCE REPARATIONS FRAMEWORK THROUGH THE LENS OF THE TULSA MASSACRE 55 UIC Law Review 681 (Winter 2022) I. Introduction. 682 II. Background. 686 A. What are Reparations?. 686 B. Types of Reparations Provided by the United States in the Past. 687 1. The Rhetoric of Race and Understanding United States History. 687 2. Reparations to the Sioux Nation. 688 3. Reparations to Japanese-Americans Internment Survivors. 689 4. Reparations for the Tuskegee... 2022
Moriah Mendicino AMERIKKKAN SCHOOLS: HOW ANTI-BLACK RACIAL INEQUITY IS PERPETUATED BY THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH HELP FROM MODERN COURTS 23 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 451 (2022) Somewhere in the dream - we had an epiphany. Now, we right the wrongs in history. I once stood at the head of a predominately Black American classroom as a white teacher facilitating a discussion with my students about their right to an education. I believed then, like so many, that children in America were Constitutionally entitled to such. A... 2022
John K. Pierre , An Essay AN ANTI-RACIST LAW SCHOOL LEADER'S PERSPECTIVE ON WHY HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOLS ARE NEEDED IN THE 21 CENTURY 53 University of Toledo Law Review 287 (Spring, 2022) We must rally to the defense of our schools. We must repudiate this unbearable assumption of the right to kill institutions unless they conform to one narrow standard. It would be ironic, to say the least, if the institutions that sustained blacks during segregation were themselves destroyed in an effort to combat its vestiges. There are currently... 2022
Karen J. Pita Loor AN ARGUMENT AGAINST UNBOUNDED ARREST POWER: THE EXPRESSIVE FOURTH AMENDMENT AND PROTESTING WHILE BLACK 120 Michigan Law Review 1581 (June, 2022) Protesting is supposed to be revered in our democracy, considered as American as apple pie in our nation's mythology. But the actual experiences of the 2020 racial justice protesters showed that this supposed reverence for political dissent and protest is more akin to American folklore than reality on the streets. The images from those streets... 2022
Sidney S. Welch , Tricia “CK” Hoffler AN EPIDEMIC OF RACISM IN PEER REVIEW: KILLING ACCESS TO BLACK AND BROWN PHYSICIANS 16 Journal of Health & Life Sciences Law 42 (2022) ABSTRACT: Recently, the medical profession has experienced a significant increase in the number of adverse medical staff actions against physicians of color. This crisis is one of epidemic proportions and impact, threatening the economic, physical, and mental well-being of African American physicians and taking a corresponding toll on the health... 2022
Linette A. Duluc BATSON FAILS AGAIN: HOW THE RESURGENCE OF BLACK LIVES MATTER HIGHLIGHTS THE EASE OF BYPASSING THE RACE-NEUTRAL REQUIREMENT AND PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS TO REFINE THE STANDARD 55 Suffolk University Law Review 375 (2022) When Black people today declare, Black Lives Matter in the face of race-based killings by police and vigilantes, their voices echo Sojourner Truth asking, Ain't I a Woman in the face of chattel slavery and Black protesters declaring, I am a Man in the face of a racial caste system . Racism seeps into the process of jury selection--legally... 2022
Heidi Kurniawan BEYOND INSTITUTIONS: ANALYZING HEIRS' PROPERTY LEGAL ISSUES AND REMEDIES THROUGH A BLACK HISTORY LENS 22 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 148 (Spring, 2022) In 2019, ProPublica and The New Yorker published a riveting and award-winning exposé on the loss of Black-owned land in the South. The story focused on two men in North Carolina, named Melvin Davis and Licurtis Reels, who spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave the property they inherited from their great-grandfather and had lived on their... 2022
Patrick Brooks BLACK & BLUE: BLACK LETTER LAW & POLICE UNION COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IMPEDE REFORM 51 University of Baltimore Law Review 449 (Summer, 2022) I. INTRODUCTION. 450 II. BACKGROUND. 453 III. BLACK: MARYLAND'S PERMISSIVE STATUTES. 455 A. Maryland's LEOBR. 456 B. Baltimore FOP's Current CBA. 458 IV. BLUE: BALTIMORE POLICE. 458 A. The FOP in Baltimore City. 458 B. Freddie Gray. 462 C. Federal Intervention. 463 V. LEGISLTIVE REFORM EFFORTS. 466 A. Other Jurisdictions. 467 B. Maryland. 468 VI.... 2022
Nicola “Nicky” A. Boothe BLACK AND BARRED: THE BAR EXAMINATION'S HISTORY OF EXCLUSIVITY AND THE THREAT OF FURTHER EXCLUSION POSED BY ABA STANDARD 316 74 South Carolina Law Review 179 (Autumn, 2022) I. Introduction. 179 II. History of ABA Standard 316. 184 III. Brief History of the ABA and the Bar Examination. 189 A. The ABA's Exclusionary History. 190 B. History of the Bar Examination. 193 C. The ABA and the Standards Impacting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. 198 IV. Suggestions to Combat Systemic Disparities Surrounding the Bar Exam. 199... 2022
Aleigh Flournoy BLACK CHILD, WHITE PARENTS: BALANCING BIOLOGY AND BOND IN MODERN TRANSRACIAL ADOPTIONS 34 Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 551 (2022) Transracial adoption disrupts the normative nuclear family by joining racially different parents and children together. Transracial adoption is the most visible form of adoption because the family's physical differences are more obvious to the everyday onlooker. In the United States, the adopting parents are almost always white, and the adoptees... 2022
Terrence M. Franklin BLACK DEATHS SHOULD MATTER, TOO!: ESTATE PLANNING AS A TOOL FOR ANTIRACISTS 68 Practical Lawyer Law. 9 (Jun-22) And since I feel today New York is really My personal property I'll tell you what I'm gonna do... Since I like you very much, So very, very much, I'm gonna split it with you. Since I like you very much, So very, very much, I'm gonna split it with you! -- Sweet Charity (Universal Pictures 1969) Just as the negative effects of most legal policies and... 2022
Joseph R. Williams BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY 24 Lawyers Journal J. 3 (25-Feb-22) Does the title of this month's President's Message look familiar? That's because ACBA Past President Elizabeth L. Hughes used this exact same title in the February 26, 2021 edition of the Lawyers Journal. I thought that it was worth repeating. Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements by African-Americans and a time for... 2022
Leland Ware BLACK LAWYERS AND CIVIL RIGHTS: THE NAACP'S LEGAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST SEGREGATION 67 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 393 (2022) While many remember the 1950s and '60s Civil Rights Movement as a grass-roots series of events consisting of mass marches, boycotts, and other protest activities, less is known about the carefully orchestrated series of lawsuits that occurred decades earlier. This Essay discusses the legal campaign against segregation by the NAACP working with... 2022
Payton Pope BLACK LIVES MATTER IN THE JURY BOX: ABOLISHING THE PEREMPTORY STRIKE 74 Florida Law Review 671 (July, 2022) Since its creation, the Batson Challenge has been widely criticized as a failure. It does not prevent discrimination in the jury selection process, has no bite, and does not serve as an adequate incentive to prevent discriminatory practices. The Supreme Court of the United States has had multiple opportunities in the last thirty years to strengthen... 2022
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. BLACK MAN'S BURDEN: RACE AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA 100 Oregon Law Review 437 (2022) Nearly 120 years ago, Frederick Douglass, the former slave and great African American leader, described the American criminal justice system as follows: Justice is often painted with bandaged eyes. She is described in forensic eloquence, as utterly blind to wealth or poverty, high or low, white or black, but a mask of iron, however thick, could... 2022
Elizabeth Tobin Tyler BLACK MOTHERS MATTER: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND LEGAL DETERMINANTS OF BLACK MATERNAL HEALTH ACROSS THE LIFESPAN 25 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 49 (2022) Black maternal health disparities have existed for decades. But with America's recent racial reckoning the public health and medical communities are increasingly focused on understanding the pathways that lead to higher rates of Black maternal morbidity and mortality, and policymakers are exploring legal and policy approaches to reducing... 2022
Tamar Anna Alexanian BLACK WOMEN & WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE: UNDERSTANDING THE PERCEPTION OF THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT THROUGH THE PAGES OF THE CHICAGO DEFENDER 29 Michigan Journal of Gender & Law 63 (2022) Susan B. Anthony once famously stated, I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman. The racism of many early suffragettes has been well documented and discussed; Black suffragettes and other suffragettes of color were, at best, relegated to the margins of the movement and,... 2022
Danielle M. Conway BLACK WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE, THE NINETEENTH AMENDMENT, AND THE DUALITY OF A MOVEMENT 13 Alabama Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Law Review Rev. 1 (2021-2022) America is at an unprecedented time with self-determination for Black women. This phase of the movement is reverberating throughout this nation and around the world. There is no confusion for those who identify as Black women that this movement is perpetual, dating back to the enslavement of Black people in America by act and by law. One need only... 2022
Sanja Kutnjak Ivković , Adri Sauerman , Jon Maskály BLACK, WHITE, OR BLUE, EVERYONE BLEEDS RED: EXPLORING VIEWS ABOUT VIOLENCE IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE SERVICE 39 Wisconsin International Law Journal 233 (Spring, 2022) L1-2Introduction . L3234 A. Policing, Race, and Violence in Historical South African Context. 234 B. Policing, Race, and Violence in Contemporary South Africa. 240 C. Theory of Police Integrity. 244 I. Methodology. 246 A. Sample. 246 B. Police Integrity Variables. 249 C. Demographic Variables. 251 D. Analytic Plan. 251 II. Findings. 252 A. Racial &... 2022
Shirah Dedman BLACK-OWNED BEEF: SHOULD BLACK BEEF PRODUCERS STAKE SPACE IN FOOD JUSTICE? 18 Journal of Food Law & Policy 38 (Spring, 2022) On June 3, 2020, cheers erupted from a crowd gathered in front of the Discovery Green Park in downtown Houston, Texas. Astride horses, a trail-riding club trotted through the park with several of its members donning shirts that read I Can't Breathe. That day, the Non-Stop Riderz travelled 20 miles through Houston to protest the murder of George... 2022
John G. Browning BLAZING THE TRAIL: ALABAMA'S FIRST BLACK LAWYERS 83 Alabama Lawyer 20 (January, 2022) The history of black attorneys in Alabama is a rich one, particularly their contributions during the civil rights struggle. But those attorneys, just like the black legal pioneers in recent decades who rose to seats on the Alabama Supreme Court, the federal bench, and at the helm of the Alabama Bar, stood on the shoulders of giants. Yet, despite... 2022
Gregory Briker, Justin Driver BROWN AND RED: DEFENDING JIM CROW IN COLD WAR AMERICA 74 Stanford Law Review 447 (March, 2022) Abstract. It would be difficult to overstate the centrality of Brown v. Board of Education to American law and life. Legal scholars from across the ideological spectrum have lavished more attention on that Supreme Court decision than any other issued during the last century. In recent decades, the standard account of Brown has placed that... 2022
Kara W. Swanson CENTERING BLACK WOMEN INVENTORS: PASSING AND THE PATENT ARCHIVE 25 Stanford Technology Law Review (2022) (Spring, 2022) This Article uses historical methodology to reframe persistent race and gender gaps in patent rates as archival silences. Gaps are absences, positioning the missing as failed non-participants. By centering Black women inventors and letting the silences fill with whispered stories, this Article upends our understanding of the patent archive as an... 2022
Waruguru Gaitho CHALLENGING THE SINGLE AXIS FROM THE NEXUS: OPERATIONALIZING INTERSECTIONALITY IN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW TO ADEQUATELY ADDRESS THE CORRECTIVE RAPE OF BLACK LESBIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA 31 Tulane Journal of Law & Sexuality Sexuality 1 (2022) Intersectionality refers to the synergistic interaction between various facets of an individual's identities that may result in compounded oppression. While intersectionality discourse has been around since the '80s, the international human rights law framework has yet to do away with its single-axis model of discrimination law, posing a challenge... 2022
Charquia Wright CIRCUIT CIRCUS: DEFYING SCOTUS AND DISENFRANCHISING BLACK VOTERS 83 Ohio State Law Journal 601 (2022) Law students are uniformly taught that federal circuit courts cannot and will not overrule Supreme Court precedent under any circumstance. This is not true. They can, with little fear of corrective mechanisms like en banc oversight, Supreme Court review, or congressional override. And in certain circumstances, they are bound to do so by the law of... 2022
Maurice R. Dyson COMBATTING AI'S PROTECTIONISM & TOTALITARIAN-CODED HYPNOSIS: THE CASE FOR AI REPARATIONS & ANTITRUST REMEDIES IN THE ECOLOGY OF COLLECTIVE SELF-DETERMINATION 75 SMU Law Review 625 (Summer, 2022) There is a real world with real structure. The program of mind has been trained on the vast interaction with this world and so contains code that reflects the structure of the world and knows how to exploit it. Artificial Intelligence's (AI) global race for comparative advantage has the world spinning, while leaving people of color and the poor... 2022
Amber Baylor CRIMINALIZED STUDENTS, REPARATIONS, AND THE LIMITS OF PROSPECTIVE REFORM 99 Washington University Law Review 1229 (2022) Introduction. 1230 I. A Reparations Framework: Outlining Injury To Criminalized Students. 1234 A. The History and Harm of Criminalizing Students. 1238 B. Law Enforcement in Schools. 1242 C. School Order Misdemeanors. 1246 D. Students in Criminal Courts. 1249 E. Reforms Reducing the Criminalization of Students. 1254 1. School Discipline Reform. 1255... 2022
Waruguru Gaitho CURING CORRECTIVE RAPE: SOCIO-LEGAL PERSPECTIVES ON SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK LESBIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA 28 William and Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 329 (Winter, 2022) Corrective rape can be defined as a hate crime that entails the rape of any member of a group that does not conform to gender or sexual orientation norms, where the motive of the perpetrator is to correct the individual, fundamentally combining gender-based violence and homophobic violence. In the South African context, these biases intersect... 2022
Tommie Shelby , tshelby@fas.harvard.edu DARK TIMES, BLACK LIGHT: A REPLY TO YANKAH, KELLY, AND MILLS 16 Criminal Law and Philosophy 45 (April, 2022) Accepted: 9 February 2022 / Published online: 12 April 2022 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2022 Replies to symposium commentaries on the book Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform. Keywords Political resistance Injustice Racism Criminal deviance Punishment I am enormously grateful to Ekow Yankah,... 2022
Tonya M. Evans DE-GENTRIFIED BLACK GENIUS: BLOCKCHAIN, COPYRIGHT, AND THE DISINTERMEDIATION OF CREATIVITY 49 Pepperdine Law Review 649 (March, 2022) In a 2016 acceptance speech during the Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards, actor and activist Jesse Williams used the phrase gentrifying our genius to refer to the insidious process of misappropriating the cultural and artistic productions of Black creators, inventors, and innovators. In that speech, he poignantly and unapologetically... 2022
Elaine Gross, MSW DENIAL OF HOUSING TO AFRICAN AMERICANS: POST-SLAVERY REFLECTIONS FROM A CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE 38 Touro Law Review 589 (2022) In this article, I draw on two decades of experience as a civil rights advocate to reflect on the denial of housing to African Americans in post-slavery America. I do so as Founder and President of the civil rights organization, ERASE Racism. I undertake historical research and share insights from my own experience to create and reflect upon six... 2022
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