| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Swati Prakash |
Racial Discrimination Against the Majority in Hiring Practices: Courts' Misguided Attempts to Make Race-conscious Law Color Blind |
101 California Law Review 1437 (October, 2013) |
Nearly fifty years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, race-based residential segregation remains remarkably persistent, as do significant racial disparities in economic well-being. This Comment argues that one contributing factor to the persistence of segregation is different access to legal protections for property value enjoyed by; Search Snippet: ...5322547 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW California Law Review October, 2013 Comment RACIAL DIMENSIONS OF PROPERTY VALUE PROTECTION UNDER THE FAIR HOUSING ACT... |
2013 |
| Roland G. Fryer, Jr. , Devah Pager , Jörg L. Spenkuch , Harvard University, Princeton University, Northwestern University |
Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality |
56 Journal of Law & Economics 633 (August, 2013) |
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive issues in the social sciences. Using a newly available data set, this paper develops a simple empirical test that, under plausible (but not innocuous) conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in the labor market. Taken at face... |
2013 |
| Tristin K. Green |
Racial Emotions and the Feeling of Equality |
86 Southern California Law Review 959 (July, 2013) |
Almost everyone in the United States is likely to experience or have experienced racial emotion in the workplace. One person feels uncomfortable making conversation with her coworkers of a different race for fear that she will use the wrong name or say something that is perceived as biased or offensive; another is anxious that his colleague will; Search Snippet: ...CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW Southern California Law Review July, 2013 Article RACIAL EMOTION IN THE WORKPLACE Tristin K. Green [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2013 |
| F. Michael Higginbotham |
Racial Equality in the Twenty-first Century: What's Tax Policy Got to Do with It? |
72 Maryland Law Review 1106 (2013) |
Chief Judge Robert Bell is so well known for his groundbreaking efforts in support of access to justice programs--whether through expanding lawyer assistance opportunities or creating problem-solving courts--that his other significant legal accomplishments are often overlooked. The quest for racial equality in jury selection is one aspect in which; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2013 Tributes to Chief Judge Robert M. Bell RACIAL EQUALITY IN JURY SELECTION F. Michael Higginbotham [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2013 |
| Deborah Zalesne |
Racial Inequities in Mortality and Access to Health Care |
3 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 23 (2013) |
Today's students live in an era that dominant social voices declare to be a post-racial society. Issues of discrimination, it follows, are simply isolated incidents easily addressed by the panoply of existing civil rights laws. This belief creates expectations on the part of first-year law students who may dismiss or ignore the existence of... |
2013 |
| Peter Arcidiacono , Esteban Aucejo, Andrew Hussey, Kenneth Spenner, Duke University, London School of Economics, University of Memphis, Duke University |
Racial Slur Incurs Suspension |
56 Journal of Law & Economics 1039 (November, 2013) |
This paper examines sorting into interracial friendships at selective universities. We show significant friendship segregation, particularly for blacks. Indeed, blacks' friendships are no more diverse in college than in high school, despite the fact that the colleges that blacks attend have substantially smaller black populations. We demonstrate... |
2013 |
| Andrew E. Taslitz |
Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama, 1865-1954. By Julie Novkov. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 368. $75.00 Cloth; $26.95 Paper |
41 American Journal of Criminal Law L. 1 (Winter 2013) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Empathy, Race, and the Capital Jury. 5 A. Overview. 6 1. Racial Bias in Black Offender-White Victim Dyads Undermines Empathy for the Defendant. 6 2. Lost Empathy for the Defendant Deindividuates His Character and Suffering. 7 a. Stereotypes and Racial Threat. 7 b. Retribution and Racial Insult. 8 B. Empathy-Relevant Features; Search Snippet: ...2013 Mass Incarceration and the Death Penalty Symposium Issue Article RACIAL THREAT VERSUS RACIAL EMPATHY IN SENTENCING--CAPITAL AND OTHERWISE Andrew E. Taslitz [FNa1... |
2013 |
| Neda N. Brisport |
Racism 4.0, Civity, and Re-constitution |
70 National Lawyers Guild Review 17 (Spring, 2013) |
President Obama began his letter regarding the Reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act with this very poignant statement: Every child in America deserves a world-class education. Although the Constitution does not directly address the notion of education, the federal government and judiciary have made it clear through; Search Snippet: ...NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD REVIEW National Lawyers Guild Review Spring, 2013 RACISM & POWER: THE INACCESSIBILITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN... |
2013 |
| Xiaoxiang Deng |
Reaction To: the Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism the Challenges of Applying "Reliable Social Science" |
5 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 29 (Spring, 2013) |
In this Article, Patrick B.N. Solomon analyzes the various logical fallacies in the rhetoric of the Supreme Court's decisions concerning racial issues. To rectify these logical fallacies, Solomon proposes that the Justices should ground their logic in the more objective findings of social scientists, instead of their own socially embedded; Search Snippet: ...Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism REACTION TO: THE FALLACIOUS RHETORICA OF RACISM Xiaoxiang Deng [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 by Xiaoxiang Deng In this... |
2013 |
| Bret D. Asbury |
Reaction To: the Gray Area: Exploring the Black-white Binary's Exploitation of the Multi-Racial Identity |
5 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 27 (Spring, 2013) |
Observing that logically coherent, unanimous decisions concerning racial classifications are possible when members of the [Supreme] Court have credited the more objective findings of social scientists instead of relying on their own socially embedded views, Patrick B.N. Solomon's The Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism endeavors to demonstrate the; Search Snippet: ...Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism REACTION TO: THE FALLACIOUS RHETORICA OF RACISM THE CHALLENGES OF APPLYING RELIABLE SOCIAL SCIENCE Bret D. Asbury... |
2013 |
| David A. Strauss |
Recognizing Race and the Elusive Ideal of Racial Neutrality |
113 Columbia Law Review Sidebar 1 (January 16, 2013) |
Response to: Justin Driver, Recognizing Race, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 404 (2012). In 1960, Louisiana enacted a statute requiring that the race of any candidate for office be listed on the ballot opposite the candidate's name. In Anderson v. Martin, the Supreme Court had no difficulty declaring that statute unconstitutional. The Court said that the case; Search Snippet: ...January 16, 2013 RECOGNIZING RACE AND THE ELUSIVE IDEAL OF RACIAL NEUTRALITY David A. Strauss [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 by Columbia Law... |
2013 |
| Vanita Gupta , Kara Dansky , ACLU, 125 Broad Street, 18th Floor, New York, NY 10004, 212-549-2500, E-mail: vgupta@aclu.org, ACLU, 915 15th Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202-715-0824, E-mail: kdansky@aclu.org |
Reducing Racially Disparate Policing Outcomes: Is Implicit Bias Training the Answer? |
37-JUL Champion 47 (July, 2013) |
After a century of stability, the last 40 years have witnessed an American penal system dominated by unrelenting growth; mass incarceration has been aggressively implemented at almost every stage of the justice process. Under this punitive regime, penal reform faced an impenetrable wall of resistance, and the consequences are well documented: a; Search Snippet: ...WL 5402041 CHAMPION Champion July, 2013 Feature Racial Disparity REDUCING RACIAL DISPARITIES THROUGH STRUCTURAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORMS Vanita Gupta [FNa1] ACLU... |
2013 |
| Nancy Leong |
Reflections on Racism and World Order |
127 Harvard Law Review Forum 32 (November, 2013) |
In my article Racial Capitalism, I expressed concern about the ongoing process of racial exploitation in which white people and predominantly white institutions derive value from the racial identity of people of color. I see this process as troubling and undesirable. Rendering racial identity a commodity harms people of color in many ways: by; Search Snippet: ...Review Forum November, 2013 Forum and Response Response REFLECTIONS ON RACIAL CAPITALISM Nancy Leong [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 Harvard Law Review Association... |
2013 |
| Stephen Ansolabehere, Nathaniel Persily, Charles Stewart III |
Regional Strategies for Racial Integration of Schools and Housing Post-parents Involved |
126 Harvard Law Review Forum 205 (April, 2013) |
Three years ago, when the Supreme Court last considered the constitutionality of the coverage formula of section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), we submitted an amicus brief on behalf of neither party analyzing the relevance to the case of voting patterns in the 2008 election. In particular, the brief, and a subsequent Harvard Law Review... |
2013 |
| Barbara Buckinx, Alexandra Filindra |
Renee C. Romano, Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders, Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 2014. Pp. 280. $35.00 Cloth (Isbn: 9780674050426). Doi:10.1017/s0738248015000589 |
22-SUM Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 379 (Summer, 2013) |
In recent years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has removed approximately 400,000 individuals per fiscal year. This is a sharp increase from 2001, when approximately half that number were removed annually. The removal of noncitizens is thus an integral and increasingly important part of the immigration policy of the United States. The; Search Snippet: ...at http:// udallcenter.arizona.edu/immigration/publications/impactofimmigrants08.pdf; Immigration Policy Center, The Racial Blame Game: Immigrants Are Not the Cause of High Unemployment... |
2013 |
| Amy A. Hackney , Jack Glaser , Georgia Southern University, University of California, Berkeley |
Reverse Racism!: Affirmative Action, the Family, and the Dream That Is America |
37 Law and Human Behavior 348 (2013) |
A controlled experiment tested the possibility that racial profiling-- disproportionate scrutiny of a minority racial group by sanctioned authorities--would have a reverse deterrent effect on the illicit behavior of members of a nonprofiled majority group. Research participants given a task involving extremely difficult anagrams were given the; Search Snippet: ...HUMAN BEHAVIOR Law and Human Behavior 2013 REVERSE DETERRENCE IN RACIAL PROFILING: INCREASED TRANSGRESSIONS BY NONPROFILED WHITES Amy A. Hackney [FNa1... |
2013 |
| Amelia Fischer |
Seeing Subtle Racism |
19 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 63 (Spring 2013) |
I. Introduction. 64 II. Secure Communities: Overview of the Program and the Racial Profiling It Allows. 66 III. Fighting for Suppression in Removal Proceedings. 69 A. The Fourth Amendment's Exclusionary Rule in its Full Form. 70 B. An Overview of the Application of the Exclusionary Rule in Immigration Proceedings. 75 C. Barriers to Prevailing on a; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law and Policy Spring 2013 Article SECURE COMMUNITIES, RACIAL PROFILING, & SUPPRESSION LAW IN REMOVAL PROCEEDINGS Amelia Fischer Copyright ©... |
2013 |
| Joseph B. Kenney |
Silence and the Racial Dimension of Megan's Law |
20 Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal 247 (2013) |
There has never been a more exciting time to be a fan of soccer, better known throughout the world as the beautiful game. Professional players are faster, more talented with the ball, and score more goals than ever before. The tournaments, cups, and leagues are followed by hundreds of millions of avid fans. Games from any of the major leagues... |
2013 |
| Maurice R. Dyson |
Site of Medical Care: Do Racial and Ethnic Differences Persist? |
81 UMKC Law Review 569 (Spring, 2013) |
Consider the following scenarios. Each indicates the nature and character of suppression of racial viewpoints, racial or ethnic identity and solidarity that rarely is the subject of attention in traditional First Amendment scholarly literature: Scenario 1: An A student alleges suddenly receiving lower grades from her teachers, in-school; Search Snippet: ...FIRST AMENDMENT: THE SUPPRESSION OF STUDENT EXPRESSION & CURRICULAR COVERAGE OF RACIAL IDENTITY & ETHNIC SOLIDARITY IN K-12 EDUCATION Maurice R. Dyson... |
2013 |
| Charlotte Garden , Nancy Leong |
So Closely Intertwined: Labor and Racial Solidarity |
81 George Washington Law Review 1135 (July, 2013) |
Conventional wisdom tells us that labor unions and people of color are adversaries. Commentators, academics, politicians, and employers across a broad range of ideologies view the two groups' interests as fundamentally opposed and their relationship as predictably fraught with tension. For example, commentators assert that unions capture a wage; Search Snippet: ...Law Review July, 2013 Article SO CLOSELY INTERTWINED: LABOR AND RACIAL SOLIDARITY Charlotte Garden [FNa1] Nancy Leong [FNaa1] Copyright (c) 2013... |
2013 |
| John M. Powers |
State V. Rogan: Racial Discrimination and Limits of the Color-blind Approach |
29 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 117 (Spring 2013) |
April 22, 2012, marked the 25th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial 5-4 decision in McCleskey v. Kemp, providing an occasion for reflection amongst stakeholders in the capital punishment system. In McCleskey, the Supreme Court ruled that statistical evidence of racial disparities in Georgia's application of the death penalty; Search Snippet: ...Racial & Ethnic Justice Spring 2013 STATE V. ROBINSON AND THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT: STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN CAPITAL PROCEEDINGS John M. Powers [FN1] Copyright ©... |
2013 |
| Ali Eacho |
Suspect Fits Description: Responses to Racial Profiling in New York City |
21 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 647 (2013) |
I. Introduction. 649 II. Background. 650 A. The Supreme Court's Racial Bias Jurisprudence Reflects a Focus on Addressing Explicit Bias in the Courtroom. 650 B. The Court Has Failed to Address Implicit Bias That Pervades Jury Selection in the Death Penalty Process. 651 C. The 2009 Racial Justice Act Accounts for Both Explicit and Implicit Racial; Search Snippet: ...THE APPELLATE COURT'S INTERPRETATION OF THE 2012 AMENDMENT TO THE RACIAL JUSTICE ACT WILL BE A LIFE OR DEATH DECISION FOR... |
2013 |
| Amy Senier, Georgetown University Law Center |
Teacher Racist Speech: a Canada-united States Comparison |
107 American Journal of International Law 891 (October, 2013) |
In February 2013, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD Committee or the Committee) issued its opinion in TBB--Turkish Union in Berlin/Brandenburg v. Germany. The majority of the Committee concluded that Germany had violated its obligations to protect its Turkish and Arab populations from a former state official's; Search Snippet: ...BODIES/CERD/JURISPRUDENCE.HTM. UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE ON THE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 Amy Senier Georgetown University Law Center... |
2013 |
| Barry Sautman |
The Choice Between Right and Easy: Pena-rodriguez V. Colorado and the Necessity of a Racial Bias Exception to Rule 606(b) |
14 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 87 (2013) |
The unprecedented prosecution of four men in Zambia in 2011-2012 for defilement of teenage prostitutes became a cause célèbre there and abroad. That was because the four men were Chinese. After enduring months of harsh imprisonment, a trial marked by multiple perjuries, misidentifications, lack of corroborative evidence, and intervention by... |
2013 |
| Kimberlé Crenshaw |
The Cultural Malleability of Intelligence and its Impact on the Racial/ethnic Hierarchy |
40-DEC Human Rights 12 (December, 2013) |
In this year of civil rights anniversaries, the narrative of racial progress has been tempered by the Supreme Court's game-changing decisions this past summer. The notion that we've come a long way and we have much more work to do sounds ever more like wishful thinking in the face of a Supreme Court that is no longer an active contributor to the; Search Snippet: ...HUMAN RIGHTS Human Rights December, 2013 THE COURT'S DENIAL OF RACIAL SOCIETAL DEBT Kimberlé Crenshaw [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 by American Bar... |
2013 |
| Matthew R. Watson |
The Dark Side of Tort Reform: Searching for Racial Justice |
27 Emory International Law Review 1055 (2013) |
In the summer of 2012, Poland and Ukraine co-hosted the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship. A week before kickoff, BBC's investigative journalism program, Panorama, aired a documentary highlighting pervasive violence, racism and anti-Semitism in the football stadiums in both these nations. Violent and racist hooliganism is not a new; Search Snippet: ...EUROPE: APPLYING THE BRITISH MODEL TO FOOTBALL-RELATED VIOLENCE AND RACISM Matthew R. Watson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Emory University School... |
2013 |
| Christian B. Sundquist |
The Difference Between Race and Color: Implications for Changing the Racial Discourse |
76 Albany Law Review 1751 (2012-2013) |
The devices of dialectic and narrative have long been used by scholars to analyze jurisprudence and disrupt traditional legal discourse. Henry M. Hart was one of the first legal scholars to utilize the dialectical method in his classic article, The Power of Congress to Limit the Jurisdiction of Federal Courts: An Exercise in Dialectic. Since Hart's; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Albany Law Review 2012-2013 Article THE DIALECTICS OF RACIAL GENETICS Christian B. Sundquist [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Albany Law... |
2013 |
| Mena Ghaly |
The Fallacious Rhetorica of Racism |
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; Search Snippet: ...FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING POLICY-- HOW CONGRESS CONTINUES TO ALLOW IMPLICIT RACIAL ANIMUS TOWARDS AFRICAN AMERICANS TO PERMEATE FEDERAL COCAINE SENTENCING Mena... |
2013 |
| Patrick B.N. Solomon |
The Fallacy of the (Racial) Solidarity Presumption |
5 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives Persp. 1 (Spring, 2013) |
Aristotle, perhaps the world's most influential philosopher and writer, was an unapologetic racist. To be sure, racism was not uncommon in Aristotle's Greco-Roman environment. Indeed, the racially denigrating term barbarian originated in ancient Greece and survived for thousands of years to become firmly rooted in our language and culture; Search Snippet: ...Perspectives Spring, 2013 Education Issue Article THE FALLACIOUS RHETORICA OF RACISM Patrick B.N. Solomon [FNa1] Copyright © 2013 by Patrick B.N. Solomon... |
2013 |
| Steven D. Schwinn, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL |
The Role of Law in the Making of Racial Identity: the Case of Harrisburg's W. Justin Carter |
40 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 342 (August 10, 2013) |
Chief Justice Roberts telegraphed his Court's approach to racial equality early in his tenure, in just his second term, when he wrote in deceptively simple language that [t]he way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, 551; Search Snippet: ...No. 8 August 10, 2013 The Roberts Court's Rule on Racial Equality Steven D. Schwinn, The John Marshall Law School, Chicago... |
2013 |
| Jonathan Rapping , Gideon's Promise, 34 Peachtree St., Ste. 2460, Atlanta, GA 30303, 404-525-4505, Fax 404-525-0937, E-mail: jon@gideonspromise.org |
The Rosewood Massacre: Reparations for Racial Injustice |
37-JUL Champion 50 (July, 2013) |
I visited D.C. Superior Court for the first time in 1993 when, as a law student and intern investigator with the D.C. Public Defender Service, I watched first appearance hearings. I was surprised to see that every defendant charged that day was African American, despite the fact that Washington, D.C, had a significant White population. I would soon; Search Snippet: ...Feature Racial Disparity THE ROLE OF THE DEFENDER IN A RACIALLY DISPARATE SYSTEM Jonathan Rapping [FNa1] Gideon's Promise 34 Peachtree St... |
2013 |
| Davison M. Douglas |
The Survival of Racism under the Constitution |
15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1037 (April, 2013) |
The first Justice John Marshall Harlan's status as one of the greatest Supreme Court Justices in American history rests largely upon his civil rights jurisprudence. The literature exploring the nuances of Harlan's civil rights jurisprudence is vast. Far less attention has been paid to the reasons for Harlan's strong civil rights views. Developing a... |
2013 |
| Deborah N. Archer |
They All Look Alike: the Inaccuracy of Cross-Racial Identifications |
4 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 55 (2013) |
This Essay takes a fresh look at the scholarship on the practice of cross-cultural and client-centered lawyering. The current scholarship explores methods of training law students to be mindful of the ways that cultural differences can impact legal representation. However, this scholarship has not addressed how to equip students to address issues... |
2013 |
| John A. Powell |
Trademark Law and Racial Subordination: from Marketing of Stereotypes to Norms of Authorship |
40-DEC Human Rights 17 (December, 2013) |
The enduring hope is that race should not matter, the reality is that too often it does. --Majority opinion, Justice Kennedy, Parents Involved It has been suggested that there have been four critical times at which America could have transformed itself into a more inclusive nation. And each time it has come up more than a little short. Although... |
2013 |
| David Ray Papke |
TransRacial Adoption in the United States: the Reflection and Reinforcement of Racial Hierarchy |
15 Journal of Law and Family Studies 57 (2013) |
Transracial adoption strikes most as an appealing undertaking. People who have adopted a child of another race or been adopted by parents of another race are usually delighted by the results and consider themselves truly fortunate. People who have participated in a transracial adoption might even assert that their families have transcended race and... |
2013 |
| David Ray Papke |
Trans-Racial Adoption: the Genesis or Genocide of Minority Cultural Existence |
2013 Utah Law Review 1041 (2013) |
Transracial adoption strikes most as an appealing undertaking. People who have adopted a child of another race or been adopted by parents of another race are usually delighted by the results and consider themselves truly fortunate. People who have participated in a transracial adoption might even assert that their families have transcended race and... |
2013 |
| Anna Cowan |
Unequal Protection and the Racial Privacy Initiative |
22 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 247 (March, 2013) |
The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by the General Assembly in 2007 was a landmark achievement in the development of indigenous rights under international law, particularly through its unequivocal recognition of indigenous peoples' right to self-determination. That same year,; Search Snippet: ...Article UNDRIP AND THE INTERVENTION: INDIGENOUS SELF-DETERMINATION, PARTICIPATION, AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA Anna Cowan [FNd1... |
2013 |
| Mark P. Fancher |
Ward V. Rock Against Racism: How Time, Place and Manner Further Restrict the Public Forum |
15 Journal of Law in Society Society 1 (Fall, 2013) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Origins and Development of Racial Profiling. 1 II. The Legal Framework for FBI Investigations. 3 III. Guidelines for the Use of Race in FBI Investigations. 4 IV. The ACLU's Freedom of Information Act Request. 5 V. The ACLU Sues for Access to Records. 8 VI. The FBI's Credibility Deficit and the Need for Transparency. 10 VII; Search Snippet: ...Society Fall, 2013 Is Detroit Different? WANTED: FBI TRANSPARENCY ABOUT RACIAL PROFILING IN ARAB AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES Mark P. Fancher [FN1... |
2013 |
| Jennifer Lisa Vest, PhD |
What Exactly Is Racial Diversity? |
12 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 471 (Fall/Winter, 2013) |
The University killed me. Don't let them do this to you. - Professor Barbara Christian I was sitting on the curb, surrounded by cops, with my feet in the street when the ambulances arrived. The small Latina paramedic crouched down to take my pulse and blood pressure. She looked alarmed and signaled for the gurney. I can walk, I offered,... |
2013 |
| Lisa Herndon |
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Law and the Racial Divide in the American Working Class, 1676-1964 |
31 Wisconsin International Law Journal 322 (Summer 2013) |
Introduction. 323 I. Black Rights at Home and Abroad: A Historical Timeline. 326 A. Slavery. 326 B. Post-1865: Black Freedom and Domestic Responses. 327 C. Post-World War I and Onward: International Human Rights for Blacks. 328 D. 1950s and 1960s: Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. 330 E. Post-1960. 331 F. Race Relations Today: Post-Racialism; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Wisconsin International Law Journal Summer 2013 Comment WHY IS RACIAL INJUSTICE STILL PERMITTED IN THE UNITED STATES?: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN... |
2013 |
| Michael J. Klarman |
With a Lack of Policy and Staff Training, Employers Could Face Liability for a Nonemployee's Racial Bias |
127 Harvard Law Review 127 (November, 2013) |
In his second inaugural address in January 2013, President Barack Obama associated the struggle for gay equality with that for racial equality by conjoining, alliteratively, Stonewall with Selma (along with Seneca Falls). The President went on to proclaim that [o]ur journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone; Search Snippet: ...Court 2012 Term Comments WINDSOR AND BROWN: MARRIAGE EQUALITY AND RACIAL EQUALITY Michael J. Klarman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Harvard Law... |
2013 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
A Change must Come: All Racial Barriers Precluding Minority Representation in Managerial Positions on Professional Sports Teams must Be Eliminated |
2 UC Irvine Law Review 313 (February, 2012) |
Introduction. 314 I. The Tumultuous Immigration Debate of the Twenty-First Century. 317 A. Meltdown in the Desert: Arizona's S.B. 1070. 320 1. S.B. 1070: One State's Effort to Bolster Immigration Enforcement. 326 2. One Color-Blind Defense: S.B. 1070 Bans Racial Profiling. 331 3. Another Color-Blind Defense: S.B. 1070 Simply Mirrors Federal Law; Search Snippet: ...Immigration Law Article A CASE STUDY OF COLOR-BLINDNESS: THE RACIALLY DISPARATE IMPACTS OF ARIZONA'S S.B. 1070 AND THE FAILURE OF... |
2012 |
| Nicole M. Oelrich |
A New Approach to Voir Dire on Racial Bias |
57 South Dakota Law Review Rev. 9 (2012) |
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) represented a gallant effort by Congress to decrease discrimination against students with physical and developmental disabilities and to create an inclusionary school environment for all students. To facilitate IDEA's purposes, Congress created two unique mandates. First, the free and... |
2012 |
| Alyssa Thurston |
Addressing the Thornier Complexities of Racial Discrimination Complaints in the Workplace |
104 Law Library Journal 359 (Summer, 2012) |
The United States has been steadily growing more racially and ethnically diverse, especially over the past several decades. Yet, as a profession, law librarianship has been slow to reflect the country's increased diversity. Taking the most recent U.S. Census statistics into account, this article evaluates the implications that a progressively... |
2012 |
| Anna C. Erwin |
Arizona Senate Bill 1070: State Sanctioned Racial Profiling? |
11 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 193 (2012) |
On December 21, 1965, in the midst of apartheid and extreme racial tensions throughout the world, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) signed and ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). CERD seeks to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the; Search Snippet: ...AND THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: HAS THE UNITED STATES COMPLIED WITH ITS TREATY OBLIGATIONS... |
2012 |
| Bahrad A. Sokhansanj |
Beyond Racial and Ethnic Analyses in Clinical Research: a Proposed Model for Institutional Review Boards |
2 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 279 (2012) |
At the very end of the last century, scientists produced the first draft of the whole human genetic sequence. But that was just the first step; the hard work of the first few decades of this century will be to learn more about how to apply genetic information to improve health. As the pace of technological development accelerates and we learn more; Search Snippet: ...GENETIC PRIVACY: UNDERSTANDING GENETIC DISCRIMINATION THROUGH ITS DISPARATE IMPACT ON RACIAL MINORITIES Bahrad A. Sokhansanj [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Columbia Journal of... |
2012 |
| Neil Gotanda |
Beyond the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Confronting Structural Racism in the Workplace |
1 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 273 (July, 2012) |
In recent years, the Supreme Court has narrowed its examination of racial subordinations to focus upon three doctrinal approaches: disparate treatment racial discrimination, the intent theory of racial discrimination, and suspect category strict scrutiny. Taken together, these three doctrines mutually reinforce racial discrimination as the only; Search Snippet: ...2012 Essay BEYOND SUPREME COURT ANTI-DISCRIMINATION: AN ESSAY ON RACIAL SUBORDINATIONS, RACIAL PLEASURES AND COMMODIFIED RACE Neil Gotanda [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Columbia... |
2012 |
| Ruqaiijah Yearby |
Breaking the Cycle: Countering Voter Initiatives and the Underrepresentation of Racial Minorities in the Political Process |
44 Connecticut Law Review 1281 (April, 2012) |
Since the Civil War access to health care in the United States has been racially unequal. This racially unequal access to health care remains even after the passage of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and the election of an African-American President. Both of these events held the promise of equality, yet the promise has never; Search Snippet: ...WITH HEALTH CARE REFORM: ACKNOWLEDGING AND ADDRESSING THE CONTINUATION OF RACIAL BIAS Ruqaiijah Yearby [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012 the Connecticut Law... |
2012 |
| Peter Halewood |
City Settles Racial Profiling Suit |
1 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 313 (July, 2012) |
Despite persistent racial and economic inequality, many believe the United States is becoming a post-racial and classless society where race and class analysis are anachronisms. This Essay will contest that claim by way of a critical reading of citizenship as reflected in American law and culture and demonstrate the continuing relevance of race; Search Snippet: ...of Race and Law July, 2012 Essay CITIZENSHIP AS ACCUMULATED RACIAL CAPITAL Peter Halewood [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Columbia Journal of Race... |
2012 |
| Ernesto Hernández-López |
Codification or Castration? The Applicability of the International Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the U.s. Criminal Justice System |
22 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 203 (2012) |
The papers in this cluster illuminate how the traditional narratives on global or national economic crises often silence or overlook issues of racial exclusion, in relation to those events. While national and global economies struggle with falling currencies, institutional breakdown, unemployment, contagion and their consequential newsworthy... |
2012 |