| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Charles M. Lamb , Randolph S. Kent , Jacqueline M. Sievert , Michael R. Staszkiw , Elizabeth A. Tillman |
Holland V. Illinois: Sixth Amendment Fair Cross-section Requirement Does Not Preclude Racially-based Peremptory Challenges |
12 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 249 (June, 2016) |
Housing segregation and discrimination remain tenacious problems in America. This Article first explores the passage of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) of 1975 and its 1989 amendments in order to clarify their objectives and requirements for providing data to the public that potentially may be used to combat redlining and lending; Search Snippet: ...Rights & Civil Liberties June, 2016 Article HMDA, HOUSING SEGREGATION, AND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN MORTGAGE LENDING Charles M. Lamb [FNd1] , Randolph S... |
2016 |
| Amy Mulzer, Tara Urs |
Hubzones: Moving from the Racial Battleground to the Economic Common Ground |
20 CUNY Law Review 23 (Winter 2016) |
A Judge McClellan in Lansing had authority over me and all of my brothers and sisters. We were state children, court wards; he had the full say-so over us. A white man in charge of a black man's children! Nothing but legal, modern slavery--however kindly intentioned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X Introduction. 23 I. Child Welfare and the Role; Search Snippet: ...December 2016 Public Interest Practitioner Section HOWEVER KINDLY INTENTIONED: STRUCTURAL RACISM AND VOLUNTEER CASA PROGRAMS Amy Mulzer Tara Urs [FNd1] Copyright... |
2016 |
| Rhonda V. Magee |
If You Plant Corn, You Get Corn: on Mindfulness and Racial Justice in Florida and Beyond |
90-APR Florida Bar Journal 36 (April, 2016) |
Before Sandra Bland's questionable stop while on her way to start a new job at her alma mater and mysterious death in police custody in Mississippi; before Eric Garner's killing for selling loosees (single cigarettes) in front of a corner store on Long Island; and before Michael Brown's killing and horrifyingly public on-street display in; Search Snippet: ...IF YOU PLANT CORN, YOU GET CORN: ON MINDFULNESS AND RACIAL JUSTICE IN FLORIDA AND BEYOND Rhonda V. Magee [FNa1] Copyright... |
2016 |
| Tyler Larson |
Immigration and Language Rights: the Evolution of Private Racist Attitudes into American Public Law and Policy |
54 University of Louisville Law Review 483 (2016) |
Over the past several years, there has been much debate about the Supreme Court's perceived expansion of corporate rights. Whether discussing protected First Amendment speech, the free exercise of religion, or a multitude of other issues, the debate in the United States seems to return to the same philosophical question: Is a corporation a person?; Search Snippet: ...Louisville Law Review 2016 Note I'M A REAL BOY: IMPUTING RACIAL IDENTITY TO CORPORATIONS FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION STANDING Tyler Larson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016 University of... |
2016 |
| Jessica Blakemore |
Implicit Racial Bias and Racial Anxiety: Implications for Stops and Frisks |
29 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 833 (Fall, 2016) |
African American men are significantly more likely to be incarcerated than either white or Hispanic men, and throughout the American criminal justice system, black Americans face a significantly greater chance of arrest, conviction, sentencing, and incarceration than white Americans. It is likely that soon, one third of African American men will; Search Snippet: ...of Legal Ethics Fall, 2016 Current Development 2015-2016 IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS Jessica Blakemore [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 by... |
2016 |
| Akuoma C. Nwadike , Ashley R. Baker , Velina B. Brackebusch , Billy J. Hawkins |
Institutional Racism, Ice Raids, and Immigration Reform |
26 Marquette Sports Law Review 523 (Spring 2016) |
Academic reform has been an ongoing effort by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) since its inception. One of the recurring challenges it has faced has been the setting of employable and achievable academic standards for all athletes seeking to compete at one of its member institutions, whether at the Division I, II, or III level; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Marquette Sports Law Review Spring 2016 Article INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN THE NCAA AND THE RACIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE 2.3 OR TAKE A KNEE LEGISLATION... |
2016 |
| Charles E. MacLean |
Is it Recording?--Racial Bias, Police Accountability, and the Body-worn Camera Activation Policies of the Ten Largest Metropolitan Police Departments in the Usa |
25 Widener Law Journal L.J. 1 (2016) |
Execution as a criminal sanction is forever, irrevocable, final. In a steady stream of cases, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that death is different or has referred to the death is different jurisprudence as bankrupt--not tethered to the original intent of the Framers. In Furman v. Georgia (1972): Death is irrevocable; life; Search Snippet: ...Criminal Sentencing Guidelines Reform IS DEATH REALLY THAT DIFFERENT? EXTRAORDINARY RACIAL DISPARITIES INFECT LIFE SENTENCES, TOO Charles E. MacLean [FN1] Copyright... |
2016 |
| Jared F. Knight |
Is the "Post" in Post-Racial the "Blind" in Colorblind? |
101 Iowa Law Review 1681 (May, 2016) |
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) is a financing tool used by cities large and small across the country. Chicago, whose history includes several instances of de jure and de facto racial discrimination, is an especially prolific TIF user. This Note examines TIF distribution in each of Chicago's 50 wards. Both a regression analysis and full; Search Snippet: ...Iowa Law Review May, 2016 Note IS TAX INCREMENT FINANCING RACIST? CHICAGO'S RACIALLY DISPARATE TIF SPENDING Jared F. Knight [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016... |
2016 |
| Clifford Clapp, Esq. |
Latino/as in the Mix: Applying Gotanda's Models of Racial Classification and Racial Stratification |
17 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 167 (2016) |
In 1995, over twenty years ago, Paul Butler argued for jury nullification by African-American jurors in cases where black defendants commit crimes that do not affect public safety, such as public drunkenness, minor drug possession, gambling and other victimless crimes. He opines that racial considerations by African-American jurors are legally and; Search Snippet: ...Race & the Law Review 2016 Article LATINO JURY NULLIFICATION: RESISTING RACIALLY & ETHNICALLY BIASED CRIMMIGRATION THROUGH CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE Clifford Clapp, Esq. [FNa1... |
2016 |
| Graham R. Cronogue |
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics and Racial Profiling |
6 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 103 (Summer, 2016) |
This Article provides two principal contributions to the study of wrongful convictions. First, it fills a gap in the literature by clarifying the scope of a capital defendant's constitutional right to use statistics when attacking a wrongful conviction caused by racial bias in jury selection. In doing so, the Article not only examines the content... |
2016 |
| Mark Walsh |
Linking Racial Classification, Racial Inequality, and Racial Formation: the Contributions of Pulled over |
102-DEC ABA Journal 20 (December, 2016) |
One term after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the consideration of race in college admissions, and in a new term that already has cases on racial issues in the administration of the death penalty and in jury deliberations, one more race-infused subject will get the justices' attention: redistricting. The court will hear appeals on Dec. 5 from; Search Snippet: ...Court Report LINES IN THE SAND Court Considers Challenges to Racial Gerrymandering in Southern Redistricting Cases Mark Walsh Copyright © 2016 by... |
2016 |
| André Douglas Pond Cummings |
Lord Forgive Me, but He Tried to Kill Me: Proposing Solutions to the United States' Most Vexing Racial Challenges |
23 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Just. 3 (Fall, 2016) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 4 II. Our Most Vexing and Persistent Racial Challenges. 8 A. Police Killing of Unarmed Black Men. 10 B. Racially Disparate Mass Incarceration. 13 C. Violent Homicide of African American Young Men and Boys. 18 III. Proposing Solutions to our Most Vexing and Persistent Racial Challenges. 23 A. Ending the Police; Search Snippet: ...ME: [FNa1] PROPOSING SOLUTIONS TO THE UNITED STATES' MOST VEXING RACIAL CHALLENGES André Douglas Pond Cummings [FNaa1] Copyright © 2016 by Washington... |
2016 |
| Jason Tashea |
Loving Indian Style: Maintaining Racial Caste and Tribal Sovereignty Through Sexual Assimilation |
102-AUG ABA Journal 18 (August, 2016) |
When Shikira Porter learned that the social networking site Nextdoor was coming to her community in Oakland, California, she couldn't wait to join. The site offers a private platform for users to meet and share information about their neighborhoods. Not long after joining, however, Porter began to witness a disturbing trend among her neighbors. I... |
2016 |
| Lindsay Pérez Huber |
Make America Great Again!: Donald Trump, Racist Nativism and the Virulent Adherence to White Supremacy amid U.s. Demographic Change |
10 Charleston Law Review 215 (Fall, 2016) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 215 II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. 217 III. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!. 222 IV. VOTE FOR WHITE SUPREMACY!. 229 V. SHIFTING U.S. DEMOGRAPHICS (AND RESPONSES). 232 VI. CONCLUSION. 239 VII. EPILOGUE: MAKE AMERICA SAFE AGAIN. 244; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall, 2016 Article MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!: DONALD TRUMP, RACIST NATIVISM AND THE VIRULENT ADHERENCE TO WHITE SUPREMACY AMID U.S... |
2016 |
| Geoff Ward |
Milking the New Sacred Cow: the Supreme Court Limits the Peremptory Challenge on Racial Grounds in Powers V. Ohio and Edmonson V. Leesville Concrete Co. |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 575 (2016) |
This article examines the socially constitutive force of historical racial violence, dimensions and mechanisms of environmental impact, enduring questions, and remedial implications. I stress the importance of empirical scrutiny of racial violence since the nineteenth century, both for the development of critical race perspective on its social... |
2016 |
| Emily Mott |
Minimizing Subtle Racism in the Workplace |
17 Vermont Journal of Environmental Law 443 (Spring, 2016) |
Introduction. 444 I. It Is Imperative To Attain Diversity in National Park Visitors. 449 A. Spending Time in Nature Provides Potential Health Benefits. 451 B. The Parks Are of Historical Significance and Promote Cultural Appreciation. 452 II. The Statistical Race Disparity and Recognizing There Is a Problem. 454 III. Analyzing the Reasons Why a; Search Snippet: ...Law Spring, 2016 Note MIND THE GAP: HOW TO PROMOTE RACIAL DIVERSITY AMONG NATIONAL PARK VISITORS Emily Mott Copyright © 2016 by... |
2016 |
| Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander , Linda F. Harrison |
Myth of the Color-blind Judge: an Empirical Analysis of Racial Harassment Cases |
22 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender 437 (Spring, 2016) |
This article argues that workplace discrimination based on hair grooming policies disproportionately impacts African American women. The article seeks to establish that natural hair is an immutable characteristic, as is all hair, made mutable by social policies that impose an acceptable standard of beauty that was never meant to include or... |
2016 |
| Jason P. Nance |
Page V. Bartels: a "Total Effects" Approach to Evaluating Racial Vote Dilution Claims |
50 University of Richmond Law Review 1063 (March, 2016) |
Over the last three decades, our nation has witnessed a dramatic change regarding how schools discipline children for disruptive behavior. Empirical evidence during this time period demonstrates that schools increasingly have relied on extreme forms of punishment such as suspensions, expulsions, referrals to law enforcement, and school-based; Search Snippet: ...Allen Chair Issue 2016 School Discipline Policies OVER-DISCIPLINING STUDENTS, RACIAL BIAS, AND THE SCHOOL-TO-PRISON PIPELINE Jason P. Nance... |
2016 |
| David B. Oppenheimer, Swati Prakash, Rachel Burns |
Plugging the School to Prison Pipeline by Addressing Cultural Racism in Public Education Discipline |
26 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal L.J. 1 (2016) |
Introduction. 1 I. European Immigration and American Immigration Policy. 6 A. Early American Demographics and Immigration Policy. 6 B. Irish Immigration. 7 C. Eastern European Jewish Immigration. 11 D. Italian Immigration. 14 E. Early Twentieth-Century Changes to Immigration Policy. 17 II. Chinese and Japanese Immigration and American Immigration; Search Snippet: ...2016 Article PLAYING THE TRUMP CARD: THE ENDURING LEGACY OF RACISM IN IMMIGRATION LAW David B. Oppenheimer Swati Prakash Rachel Burns... |
2016 |
| Liku T. Madoshi |
Policy and Prejudice the Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty by Jill Quadagno. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. 254. $24.00. |
44 Southern University Law Review 118 (Fall, 2016) |
A militarized police force cannot be fully effective. Because police are civilian members of a community, their success depends upon the trust and cooperation of that community. The pervasive use of tactics that are overly aggressive and militarized tend to exacerbate any tensions that may already exist. At the intersection of Trust Avenue and; Search Snippet: ...University Law Review Fall, 2016 Comment POLICING THE POLICE: IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS & THE NECESSITY OF LIMITING POLICE DISCRETION TO USE MILITARIZED... |
2016 |
| Salma S. Safiedine, Jihad J. Komis, Christine M. Kulumani |
Policy Reform in the Juvenile Justice Arena |
31-FALL Criminal Justice 25 (Fall, 2016) |
as the United States criminal justice system continues to grow and evolve, the need for appropriate policy regulation to increase efficiency and fairness becomes more evident. Legislation sets the fundamentals, such as defining the crimes and their punishment; yet often overlooked is the role of criminal justice policy, formal and informal, which; Search Snippet: ...Justice Fall, 2016 Feature POLICY REFORM AT THE FOREFRONT OF RACIAL JUSTICE The Racial Justice Improvement Project Salma S. Safiedine Jihad J. Komis Christine... |
2016 |
| Charlotte S. Alexander , Zev J. Eigen , Camille Gear Rich |
Post-Racial Lending? |
91 New York University Law Review Rev. 1 (April, 2016) |
In recent years, antidiscrimination scholars have focused on the productive possibilities of the universal turn, a strategy that calls on attorneys to convert particularist claims, like race discrimination claims, into broader universalist claims that secure basic dignity, liberty, and fairness rights for all. Scholars have urged litigators to; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW New York University Law Review April, 2016 Articles POST- RACIAL HYDRAULICS: THE HIDDEN DANGERS OF THE UNIVERSAL TURN Charlotte S... |
2016 |
| Taja-Nia Y. Henderson |
Propositions 187 and 227: Latino Immigrant Rights to Education |
12 Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties 177 (February, 2016) |
This Article historicizes societal associations of blackness with criminality through an examination of the peculiar role of criminal law enforcement mechanisms (and spaces) in the service of slavery in the early American South. I ask how slaveholders deployed public law enforcement resources to further their private interests in slavery and the... |
2016 |
| Tracey C. Hinson |
Racial Bias and the Right to an Impartial Jury: a Standard for Allowing Voirdire Inquiry |
52-SEP Trial 58 (September, 2016) |
Deadly Injustice is an in-depth look at racial injustice and its role in the killing of unarmed, African-American teenager Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the man who shot him--a case that sparked outrage and ignited a discussion about race, violence, and the legal system in the United States. Edited by Devon Johnson, Patricia; Search Snippet: ...58 2016 WL 4937899 TRIAL Trial September, 2016 Department Book RACIAL BIAS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM DEADLY INJUSTICE: TRAYVON MARTIN... |
2016 |
| William Y. Chin |
Racial Desegregation and Income Deconcentration in Public Housing |
6 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 441 (June, 2016) |
Everything is connected. In the criminal justice system, racial bias at individual stages connects to create cumulative disadvantage for defendants of color. Cumulative disadvantage occurs when prior negative events (e.g., pretrial detention) increase the likelihood of later negative events (e.g., imprisonment). Racial bias is not sequestered; Search Snippet: ...Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy June, 2016 Article RACIAL CUMULATIVE DISADVANTAGE: THE CUMULATIVE EFFECTS OF RACIAL BIAS AT MULTIPLE DECISION POINTS IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM... |
2016 |
| Peter A. Joy, Kevin C. McMunigal |
Racial Discrimination and Military Justice Perry, Ronald W., Racial Discrimination and Military Justice. New York, N.y.: Praeger Publishers, 1977. Pp. 97. Bibliography |
31-SUM Criminal Justice 43 (Summer, 2016) |
In an effort to eliminate a long history of racial discrimination in jury selection, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), that jurors cannot be excluded on the basis of race through a prosecutor's use of peremptory challenges. Despite that ruling, racial discrimination in jury selection has remained a persistent; Search Snippet: ...WL 4920013 CRIMINAL JUSTICE Criminal Justice Summer, 2016 Department Ethics RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND JURY SELECTION Peter A. Joy Kevin C. McMunigal... |
2016 |
| M. R. Franks |
Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: Professional Misconduct, Not Legitimate Advocacy |
42 Thurgood Marshall Law Review Rev. 5 (Fall, 2016) |
The history of gun control in America is one of racial discrimination. The very first gun control law in the United States was enacted in 1680 by the legislature of the colony of Virginia. It prohibited persons of color, slave or free, from carrying a gun. The history of discrimination persisted through Jim Crow days. This has been well documented... |
2016 |
| Lori W. Will, Jessica R. Kunz, Matthew P. Majarian |
Racial Disparities in Sentencing: Can Sentencing Reforms Reduce Discrimination in Punishment? |
34-SPG Delaware Lawyer 18 (Spring, 2016) |
Delaware, like many other states across the country, has experienced a steady increase in its incarceration rate over the past four decades. The incarceration rate in Delaware is about 12% higher than the national average at a rate of about 440 people per 100,000. Although African Americans comprise about 22 percent of Delaware's population, they; Search Snippet: ...2016 WL 3098392 DELAWARE LAWYER Delaware Lawyer Spring, 2016 Feature RACIAL DISPARITIES IN SENTENCING With African Americans Over-Represented in Our... |
2016 |
| Janine Young Kim |
Racial Epithets in the Criminal Process |
87 University of Colorado Law Review 437 (Spring 2016) |
This Article examines two distinct but related questions regarding race and emotions. The first raises the possibility that there are certain emotions that are so closely tied to racial experiences that they can be said to demonstrate and typify an emotional dimension to the construct of race. The second asks how such quintessentially racial... |
2016 |
| Shaun Ossei-Owusu |
Racial Identity and Census Categories: Can Incorrect Categories Yield Correct Information? |
2016 Wisconsin Law Review 493 (2016) |
Introduction. 493 The Subfields. 497 A. Medical Anthropology and Community Health Needs Assessments. 497 B. Medical Sociology. 501 1. Sociology in Medicine and Accountable Care Organizations. 501 2. Sociology of Medicine and Workforce Diversity. 504 3. Sociology of Health, the Employer Mandate, and Coverage Gaps. 508 C. Health Economics and; Search Snippet: ...Review 2016 Symposium Issue: Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods RACIAL HORIZONS AND EMPIRICAL LANDSCAPES IN THE POST-ACA WORLD Shaun... |
2016 |
| James M. DeLise |
Racial Inclusion, Exclusion and Segregation in Constitutional Law |
17 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 179 (2016) |
In Ricci v. DeStefano, Justice Scalia presaged a showdown between disparate impact and equal protection, noting that the war between disparate impact and equal protection will be waged sooner or later, and it behooves us to begin thinking about how--and on what terms--to make peace between them. In this essay, I posit that one can make peace; Search Snippet: ...THE LAW REVIEW Rutgers Race & the Law Review 2016 Article RACIAL IMPERMISSIBILITY UNDER THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE FROM STRAUDER V. WEST... |
2016 |
| Dawinder S. Sidhu |
Racial Mirroring |
17 Federalist Society Review 14 (June, 2016) |
Note from the Editor: This article argues that attempts to engineer public work forces to match the racial makeups of the communities they serve violate the Equal Protection and cause social harm. The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public policy matters. Any expressions of opinion are those of the author. Whenever we; Search Snippet: ...FEDERALIST SOCIETY REVIEW Federalist Society Review June, 2016 Civil Rights RACIAL MIRRORING Dawinder S. Sidhu [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 The Federalist Society... |
2016 |
| Andrea C. Armstrong |
Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us |
60 Howard Law Journal 221 (Fall, 2016) |
221 INTRODUCTION. 222 I. PRISONERS' UNPROTECTED PROTESTS. 226 A. Ineffective Legal Methods of Protest. 229 B. Punishment for Protest. 232 II. ADDERLEY V. FLORIDA. 236 A. Adderley and Race. 236 B. Adderley's Impact. 242 III. JONES V. NORTH CAROLINA PRISONERS' LABOR UNION, INC.. 248 A. Jones and Race. 248 B. Jones' Impact. 257 IV. RACE,; Search Snippet: ...LAW JOURNAL Howard Law Journal Fall, 2016 Article and Essay RACIAL ORIGINS OF DOCTRINES LIMITING PRISONER PROTEST SPEECH Andrea C. Armstrong... |
2016 |
| Donald F. Tibbs |
Racial Profiling in the Jury Box: New Jersey V. Andujar |
23 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 181 (Fall, 2016) |
On July 6, 2016, Philando Divall Castile was returning from shopping at a grocery store with his girlfriend Diamond Reynolds as the two of them drove through Falcon Heights, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. Earlier that evening, he performed normal day-to-day functions. He had gotten a haircut and eaten dinner with his sister before picking up; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Fall, 2016 Article RACIAL PROFILING IN THE ERA OF BLACK DE-CONSTITUTIONALISM Donald F... |
2016 |
| Ronnie A. Dunn |
Racial Profiling: Amend the Official Code of Georgia So as to Require Policies That Prohibit Law Enforcement Officers from Impermissibly Using Race or Ethnicity in Determining Whether to Stop a Motorist; Require Annual Training of Law Enforcement Officers |
66 Case Western Reserve Law Review 957 (Summer, 2016) |
C1-2Contents Introduction. 958 I. Empirical Studies of Racial Profiling. 962 II. Study Setting & Design. 964 A. Cleveland. 966 B. Shaker Heights. 968 C. Brook Park. 969 D. Westlake. 969 III. The Data. 970 IV. Analysis of Traffic Ticketing Data. 971 V. Findings: The Racial Characteristics of Cities' Driving Populations & Ticketing Patterns. 973 A; Search Snippet: ...Bias and the Criminal Justice System Friday, October 23, 2015 RACIAL PROFILING: A PERSISTENT CIVIL RIGHTS CHALLENGE EVEN IN THE TWENTY... |
2016 |
| Christopher S. Elmendorf , Kevin M. Quinn , Marisa A. Abrajano |
Racially Restrictive Covenants in the State of Washington: a Primer for Practitioners |
83 University of Chicago Law Review 587 (Spring 2016) |
Whether voting is racially polarized has for the last generation been the linchpin question in vote dilution cases under the core, nationally applicable provision of the Voting Rights Act. The polarization test is supposed to be clear-cut (manageable), diagnostic of liability, and free of strong racial assumptions. Using evidence from a random... |
2016 |
| Carol M. Rose |
Racially Transcendent Diversity |
41 Law and Social Inquiry 939 (Fall, 2016) |
Racially restrictive covenants--subdivision rules or neighborhood agreements that run with the land to bar sales of rentals by minority members--were common and legally enforceable in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. In spite of their demeaning character, these racial covenants took away opportunities from excluded; Search Snippet: ...Framework for Understanding Involuntary Property Loss and the Remedies Required RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS--WERE THEY DIGNITY TAKINGS? Carol M. Rose [FNa1... |
2016 |
| David Schraub , University of California Berkeley School of Law |
Racism as the Ultimate Deception |
17 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy Pol'y 3 (2016) |
Nobody likes to feel used. But everyone likes to feel useful. This paradox has long been overlooked by people examining the parameters of racism in the United States. The classic model of racism focuses on the manner in which Black Americans have been objectified--and for good reason. From chattel slavery to Jim Crow, African Americans have faced a; Search Snippet: ...POLIC Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 2016 Article RACISM AS SUBJECTIFICATION David Schraub [FNa1] University of California Berkeley School... |
2016 |
| Robette Ann Dias |
Racism in American and South African Courts: Similarities and Differences |
40 Southern Illinois University Law Journal 501 (Spring, 2016) |
It is not often that I am invited as a community member to speak in an academic setting, and to have received the invitation to address something as essential as the relationship between healthy communities and law enforcement is an honor and a heavy responsibility. I am grateful to have had that opportunity and grateful for the invitation to; Search Snippet: ...LAW JOURNAL Southern Illinois University Law Journal Spring, 2016 Article RACISM CREATES BARRIERS TO EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY POLICING Robette Ann Dias [FNa1... |
2016 |
| Rhonda V. Magee |
Reaction To: "Health Care, Title Vi, and Racism's New Normal" |
102-AUG ABA Journal 26 (August, 2016) |
As any given day draws to an end, I am most often tired. You probably know the feeling. As a woman of color, my ordinary fatigue is exacerbated by the additional stress of the ugly signs that old-fashioned racism is on the rise in America. And there is an added weight lately. In my day job, I've taken on the challenge of helping law students learn; Search Snippet: ...Practice Edited by James Podgers, Molly McDonough Mindfulness REACTING TO RACISM Mindfulness Has a Role in Educating Lawyers to Address Ongoing... |
2016 |
| M. Alexander Pearl |
Reducing Racial Bias Embedded in Land Use Codes |
38 Cardozo Law Review 231 (October, 2016) |
Property rights serve human values. They are recognized to that end, and are limited by it. --Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub Everyone has an opinion, from President Obama to Matthew McConaughey, about the Washington football team name. This Article comprehensively analyzes the legal and social issues surrounding the mascot controversy. I focus my; Search Snippet: ...Law Review October, 2016 Article REDSKINS: THE PROPERTY RIGHT TO RACISM M. Alexander Pearl [FNd1] Copyright © 2016 by Yeshiva University; M... |
2016 |
| Elizabeth B. Meers |
Reflections on Racial Capitalism |
120 Penn State Law Review 945 (Spring, 2016) |
Colleges and universities frequently receive requests and demands from constituents to take race into account in selection of faculty, admission of students, and financial aid. Colleges and universities seek to promote racial and other diversity on campus and are open to ways to increase it. Donors, alumni, faculty, and students are often unaware; Search Snippet: ...FISHER v. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS II AND CAMPUS PROTESTS OVER RACIAL INEQUALITY Elizabeth B. Meers [FNa1] Copyright © 2016 by The Dickinson... |
2016 |
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Review of the Legal Literature on Environmental Racism, Environmental Equity, and Environmental Justice |
2016 Federal Sentencing Reporter 1417774 (February 1, 2016) |
It has been an interesting decade for research into federal sentencing disparity. The decision in Booker coincided with, and may have contributed to, methodological innovations and controversy. The U.S. Sentencing Commission's repeated findings of increases in racial disparity after Booker have been questioned by academic researchers and; Search Snippet: ...28, Number 3 February, 2016 REVIEW OF DOJ-COMMISSIONED REPORT: RACIAL DISPARITY IN POST-BOOKER SENTENCING February 1, 2016 Paul J... |
2016 |
| Sonja B. Starr |
That Unspoken Thing |
2016 University of Chicago Legal Forum 485 (2016) |
Statistical evidence plays a central role in litigation, scholarship, and public debates about race and policing. At one level, the statistical picture is clear: people of color in the United States, especially black men, interact with police far more often than white Americans do. Black Americans are about 2.5 times more likely to be arrested each; Search Snippet: ...of Chicago Legal Forum 2016 Policing the Police Article TESTING RACIAL PROFILING: EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF DISPARATE TREATMENT BY POLICE Sonja B... |
2016 |
| Erwin Chemerinsky |
The 911 Covenant: Policing Black Bodies in White Spaces and the Limits of Implicit Bias as a Tool of Racial Justice |
83 University of Chicago Law Review Online 49 (2016) |
The election of the first African-American president led to claims that the United States had moved to a post-racial society. This, of course, was not the first time that there have been such declarations. Almost from the moment the Civil War ended and the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, there were declarations that the United States had... |
2016 |
| Kim Forde-Mazrui |
The Case for African American and Latina/o Cooperation in Challenging Racial Profiling in Law Enforcement |
79 Law and Contemporary Problems 53 (2016) |
For centuries, coal miners took canaries into the mine to alert them that atmospheric conditions were dangerously toxic. If the canary showed signs of distress, it was time to get out. The miner's canary has been used as a metaphor to describe the signal provided by observed disparities between racial groups along socioeconomic dimensions. Black; Search Snippet: ...Willig Special Editors THE CANARY-BLIND CONSTITUTION: MUST GOVERNMENT IGNORE RACIAL INEQUALITY? Kim Forde-Mazrui [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016 Kim Forde... |
2016 |
| Kevin Zhao |
The Civil Rights History of "Sex" |
12 Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar 33 (November 29, 2016) |
In 1944, George Stinney Jr., a fourteen-year-old black boy, was tried for the murders of two young, white girls. His trial lasted just one day, and the all-white jury deliberated for just ten minutes before finding him guilty and sentencing him to death. Less than three months later, Stinney was executed by electrocution at the age of fourteen; Search Snippet: ...EASY: PENA-RODRIGUEZ v. COLORADO AND THE NECESSITY OF A RACIAL BIAS EXCEPTION TO RULE 606(B) Kevin Zhao [FNa1] Copyright... |
2016 |
| Elise C. Boddie |
The Constitutionality of Racially Restrictive Organizations Within the University Setting |
38 Cardozo Law Review 531 (December, 2016) |
C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 531 I. The Meaning of Discriminatory Purpose. 533 A. Categories of Race Jurisprudence in Equal Protection. 534 B. Unpacking Racially Integrative Purpose. 536 C. Exploring Intent. 539 II. The Constitutionality of Racially Integrative Purpose. 544 A. Public Schools. 544 B. State-Subsidized Housing. 545 C; Search Snippet: ...of John Roberts on the Supreme Court THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF RACIALLY INTEGRATIVE PURPOSE Elise C. Boddie [FNd1] Copyright © 2016 by Yeshiva... |
2016 |
| Amanda Carlin |
The Court's Denial of Racial Societal Debt |
63 UCLA Law Review 450 (February, 2016) |
Central to critical race theory (CRT) is the notion that law is constitutive (and not merely reflective) of race. This Comment operates within the CRT tradition to point to the development of the courtroom as white space and the construction of legal narrative and legal truth as distinctly white. It traces the exclusion of people of color from the; Search Snippet: ...Law Review February, 2016 Comment THE COURTROOM AS WHITE SPACE: RACIAL PERFORMANCE AS NONCREDIBILITY Amanda Carlin Copyright (c) 2016 Regents of... |
2016 |
| J. Baxter Stegall |
The Damaging Consequences of the Rehnquist Court's Commitment to Color-blindness Versus Racial Justice |
11 Liberty University Law Review 271 (Fall, 2016) |
This Comment will demonstrate racial discrimination in gun control laws at the federal, state, and local level throughout our nations history. It will then suggest a remedy to prevent discrimination through gun control laws by the application of strict scrutiny as the necessary standard of review. Most of the works suggesting that strict scrutiny... |
2016 |