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L.J. Jackson In Pursuit of Racial Utopias: Fair Housing, Quotas, and Goals in the 1980's 101-OCT ABA Journal 28 (October, 2015) Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray. Samuel DuBose. All names of unarmed African-American males killed during police encounters in the past 18 months. The string of high-profile fatalities stirred unrest and prompted marches and public outcries for reform. Former criminal defense attorney Robbin Shipp; Search Snippet: ...reginald.davis@americanbar.org Profile IN BLACK AND WHITE Lawyer's Cause: Reducing Racial Conflict with Cops L.J. Jackson Copyright © 2015 by the American... 2015
Anjana Mebane-Cruz, Farmingdale State College, SUNY Incarceration, Health, and Racial Disparities in Health 38 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 226 (November, 2015) Particular problems were created for mixed people in the United States with the development of race categories and ideologies based on hierarchies of color and blood. With whiteness favored above all else, mixed people often self-identified with the more phenotypically European of their ancestors in spite of prohibitive legal sanctions. For the; Search Snippet: ...2015 Symposium on Punishment and the State INCARCERATION BY CATEGORY: RACIAL DESIGNATIONS AND THE BLACK BORDERS OF INDIANNESS Anjana Mebane-Cruz... 2015
Carlos Torres, Azadeh Shahshahani, Tye Tavaras Inference or Impact? Racial Profiling and the Internment's True Legacy 18 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 283 (2015) INTRODUCTION. 283 I. PUBLIC SURVEILLANCE. 284 II. WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT: SURVEILLANCE IN LEGAL HISTORY AND ITS CURRENT LEGAL STATUS. 286 III. MODERN SURVEILLANCE: SURVEILLANCE SINCE 9/11. 292 IV. FBI GUIDELINES. 296 V. IMPACT OF PROFILING ON CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS. 299 VI. COURT CHALLENGES. 301 VII. RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN INTERNATIONAL; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Law and Social Change 2015 Article INDISCRIMINATE POWER: RACIAL PROFILING AND SURVEILLANCE SINCE 9/11 Carlos Torres Azadeh Shahshahani... 2015
András L. Pap Is Title Vi a Magic Bullet? Environmental Racism in the Context of Political-economic Processes and Imperatives 46 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 153 (Winter, 2015) This essay investigates the constitutional dilemma that concerns definition making in ethno-racial minority protection mechanisms. The first part analyzes habitually used definitions and conceptualizations of minority groups and membership criteria. It uses case studies from various jurisdictions to argue that, instead of any empty typology, the... 2015
Randall Kennedy Judge Says Pizza Hut Is Responsible for Employees' Racial Harassment 61 Loyola Law Review 57 (Spring 2015) Judge J. Skelly Wright's principal claim to historic prominence resides in rulings he made on behalf of racial justice. Over the course of his thirty-seven years on the bench, he made notable contributions in other areas as well, including the protection of fairness in commercial transactions and the protection of federal constitutional civil; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring 2015 Symposium JUDGE J. SKELLY WRIGHT AND THE RACIAL DESEGREGATION OF LOUISIANA Randall Kennedy [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 Loyola... 2015
Gregory S. Parks Judicial Scrutiny of "Benign" Racial Preference in Law School Admissions 18 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 681 (2015) Introduction. 681 I. The Realities of Judicial Race Bias. 683 II. White-on-Black Bias. 686 III. Black-on-White Bias. 689 IV. Black-on-Black Bias. 693 Conclusion. 696; Search Snippet: ...and Public Policy 2015 Article JUDICIAL RECUSAL: COGNITIVE BIASES AND RACIAL STEREOTYPING Gregory S. Parks [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 New York... 2015
Beth E. Richie King Making: Brown V. Board and the Rise of a Racial Savior 5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 257 (Summer, 2015) I. Introduction. 257 II. An Honest Analysis of Racism in the Movement. 262 III. Principles of Women of Color Feminisms. 266 IV. Prison Abolition. 268 V. Conclusion. 273; Search Snippet: ...FNa1] KEYNOTE--REIMAGINING THE MOVEMENT TO END GENDER VIOLENCE: ANTI- RACISM, PRISON ABOLITION, WOMEN OF COLOR FEMINISMS, AND OTHER RADICAL VISIONS... 2015
Brian Rodriguez Latinos Nowhere in Sight: Erased by Racism, Nativism, the Black-white Binary, and Authoritarianism 40 Thurgood Marshall Law Review Online Online 7 (2015) According to the National Council of La Raza NCLR, Latinos in the United States face discrimination and overrepresentation in every step of the criminal justice system, from arrest to incarceration. Tough on crime policies enacted since the 1970's for the purpose of reducing violent crimes and promoting efficiency in the criminal justice; Search Snippet: ...Review Online 2015 LATINOS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: OVERCOMING RACIAL STIGMA FROM TRIAL TO INCARCERATION Brian Rodriguez Copyright © 2015 by... 2015
Bruce A. Green Legal Education and the Legitimation of Racial Power 28 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 177 (Spring, 2015) C1-2Table of Contents Introduction. 177 I. Criminal Justice Discourseand Implicit Biases. 180 II. NYC Stop-and-Frisk Litigation: A Case Study. 185 A. THE LONG LEAD-UP TO JUDGE SCHEINDLIN'S REMOVAL. 186 B. THE SECOND CIRCUIT'S QUESTIONABLE PROCESS. 191 C. THE SECOND CIRCUIT'S QUESTIONABLE EXPLANATIONS. 195 D. THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTRIBUTE; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Legal Ethics Spring, 2015 Article LEGAL DISCOURSE AND RACIAL JUSTICE: THE URGE TO CRY BIAS! Bruce A. Green [FNa1... 2015
Gary Peller Legal Post-Racialism as an Instrument of Racial Compromise in Shelby County V. Holder 65 Journal of Legal Education 405 (November, 2015) Thank you for your invitation to talk with you today about how the recent uproar about police killings of African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country might connect to your experience in elite legal education-- what might Harvard Law School have to do with what is going on? I will talk about the way that racial justice is; Search Snippet: ...on Legal Education Symposium LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE LEGITIMATION OF RACIAL POWER Gary Peller [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by Association of American... 2015
Pantea Javidan Legal Restraints on Racial Discrimination in Employment 17 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 127 (2015) The timeline of the Black civil rights movement in the United States reveals a long history of struggle for liberation, advancement, equality and full citizenship. Each gain has invariably met with either swift retaliation on the societal level or more subdued, gradual and systemic retrenchment. In each historical era, retaliation and reversal have... 2015
Tracey McCants Lewis Legally Defensible Approaches to Racial Diversity in Charter School Enrollments 30 BYU Journal of Public Law 41 (2015) The history of the right to vote in America . . . is a history of conflict, of struggle, for that right. Many people died trying to [obtain] that right. I was beaten and jailed because I stood up for it. For millions like me, the struggle . . . is not mere history, it is experience . . . . We must not step backward. In 1929, Beatrice and Ruth... 2015
Aleatra P. Williams Less Talk More Action: Accelerating Innovative Strategies to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 6 William & Mary Business Law Review 601 (April, 2015) For decades the agencies charged with minding the fair credit and lending shop turned a blind eye to those (lenders) who pilfered minority homeownership (and consequently minority wealth) by extending mortgage lending products that were, in many cases, unequal to similarly situated non-minority counterparts. Since the 1950s, when the federal; Search Snippet: ...Article LENDING DISCRIMINATION, THE FORECLOSURE CRISIS AND THE PERPETUATION OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN HOMEOWNERSHIP IN THE U.S. Aleatra P... 2015
Charles R. Lawrence III , Featuring a Poem by Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner Looking Beyond Gender: Women's Experiences at Law School 37 University of Hawaii Law Review 457 (Spring, 2015) In 1987, I introduced the idea that anti-discrimination law should take cognizance of unconscious bias in an article titled The Id, The Ego and Equal Protection: Reckoning with Unconscious Racism. I argued that the purposeful intent requirement found in Supreme Court equal protection doctrine and in the Court's interpretation of anti-discrimination; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring, 2015 Symposium Article LOCAL KINE IMPLICIT BIAS: UNCONSCIOUS RACISM REVISITED (YET AGAIN) Charles R. Lawrence III [FNa1] Featuring a... 2015
Cedric Merlin Powell Mind the Gap: How to Promote Racial Diversity among National Park Visitors 2015 Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice Online Online 1 (2015) The fortieth anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley has been overshadowed by the celebratory ambivalence of the sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Brown is at once both a transformative decision that eradicates invidious state-mandated segregation and a severely limited remedial mandate that has failed to secure substantive... 2015
James Anthony Becerra Minnesota's Continuing Efforts to Address Racial Disparities in Sentencing 24 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 459 (Spring 2015) How should an individual of a particular race or racial minority feel when subjected to blatant racial discrimination? It is understandable to believe that an overt display of racism would and should illicit a strong reaction, but what if the discrimination is more discreet? How should members of a racial minority working for an organization feel; Search Snippet: ...Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal Spring 2015 Note MINIMIZING SUBTLE RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE James Anthony Becerra [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015... 2015
Elizabeth Ingriselli Mixed Motives and Racial Bias 124 Yale Law Journal 1690 (March, 2015) This Note examines, through an experimental design, whether juror biases against black defendants are explained by aversive racism theory or social identity theory and whether procedural justice can be used to decrease biases. The Note also examines whether the timing of debiasing jury instructions affects judgments of guilt. The experiment finds... 2015
Sierra Villaran National Consortium for Racial and Ethnic Fairness Conference a Success 88 Southern California Law Review 1239 (July, 2015) Once upon a time, not so long ago, culture, in the lower case, was primarily an anthropological preoccupation. Not any more. It is hardly news that peoples across the planet have taken to invoking it, to signifying themselves with reference to it, to investing it with an authority, a determinacy, a superorganic unity of which even the most; Search Snippet: ...Law Review July, 2015 Note NARRATIVES OF CULTURAL COLLISION AND RACIAL OPPRESSION: HOW TO RECONCILE THEORIES OF A CULTURAL DEFENSE AND... 2015
Jacob Wolf On Race and Persuasion 5 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 53 (2015) On July 20, 2006, Michigan joined the growing number of states to enact Stand Your Ground legislation. These statutes marked a dramatic expansion of the common law Castle Doctrine by allowing individuals to employ deadly force against assailants without first considering whether there were reasonably available avenues of retreat to safety. This; Search Snippet: ...of Race and Law 2015 Note ON DEATH'S DOORSTEP: THE RACIALLY STRATIFIED IMPACT OF THE MICHIGAN SELF-DEFENSE ACT AND WHY... 2015
James Ptacek (moderator) , Margaret Johnson, Nicole Matthews, Hillary Potter Paradoxes of Racial Stereotypes, Diversity and past Discrimination in Establishing Affirmative Action in Fcc Broadcast Licensing 5 University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review 357 (Summer, 2015) MATTHEWS: Hello everyone, my name is Nicole Matthews. I am Ojibwe from the White Earth Reservation in Northern Minnesota. I come to this work not as an academic but as an activist, as a woman who has both experienced violence and seen violence in my home, who has many female relatives who have experienced violence. I also come from a grandfather; Search Snippet: ...Gender Violence Transcript [FNa1] PANEL ON INTERSECTIONS OF GENDER, ECONOMIC, RACIAL, AND INDIGENOUS (IN) JUSTICE University of Miami School of Law... 2015
Charles R. Lawrence III Patients' Racial Preferences and the Medical Culture of Accommodation 31 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice Just. 7 (Spring 2015) Cheryl Harris begins her canonical piece, Whiteness as Property, by introducing her grandmother Alma. Fair skinned with straight hair and aquiline features, Alma passes so that she can feed herself and her two daughters. Harris speaks of Alma's daily illegal border crossing into this land reserved for whites. After a day's work, Alma returns home; Search Snippet: ...AND TRESPASSING IN THE ACADEMY: ON WHITENESS AS PROPERTY AND RACIAL PERFORMANCE AS POLITICAL SPEECH Charles R. Lawrence III [FNa1] Copyright... 2015
L. Song Richardson Police Shootings of Black Men and Implicit Racial Bias: Can't We All Just Get along 83 Fordham Law Review 2961 (May, 2015) The recent rash of police killing unarmed black men has brought national attention to the persistent problem of policing and racial violence. These cases include the well-known and highly controversial death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as the deaths of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island,... 2015
Kenneth Lawson Police Violence and How to Fight It, in Particular When Racially Motivated: the Example of the European Court of Human Rights 37 University of Hawaii Law Review 339 (Spring, 2015) I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes; Search Snippet: ...2015 Symposium Article POLICE SHOOTINGS OF BLACK MEN AND IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS: CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG Kenneth Lawson [FNa1... 2015
Brett G. Johnson Prejudice and Property, U.s. Department of Justice (Brief Against Racial Covenants Submitted to the U.s. Supreme Court by Tom C. Clark and Philip B. Perlman, Public Affairs Press, 1948) 20 Communication Law and Policy 55 (Winter, 2015) Race is very important in Brazil, but only because it is not supposed to be important. Brazilian conventional wisdom holds that the country is a racism-free racial democracy, yet the enduring presence of racism in Brazil forces the law to fight to protect the country's racism-free image. The purpose of this article is to analyze Brazil's laws; Search Snippet: ...Law and Policy Winter, 2015 Article PREJUDICE AGAINST BEING PREJUDICED: RACIST SPEECH AND THE SPECTER OF SEDITIOUS LIBEL IN BRAZIL Brett... 2015
Darren Lenard Hutchinson Preventing Racial Profiling and Ensuring Professional Traffic Stops 22 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law L. 1 (Winter, 2015) Introduction. 4 I. Balkanization and Equal Protection. 12 A. Balkanization: The Empirical Claim. 12 1. Colorblindness, Affirmative Action, and Balkanization. 12 2. Discriminatory Intent Rule. 15 3. The End of Suspect Classes. 16 a. Failure to Recognize New Suspect Classes. 16 b. Class-to-Classification Shift. 19 B. Dignity and the Supreme Court. 20; Search Snippet: ...and the Law Winter, 2015 Article PREVENTING BALKANIZATION OR FACILITATING RACIAL DOMINATION: A CRITIQUE OF THE NEW EQUAL PROTECTION Darren Lenard... 2015
Kevin Woodson Race and Religion in the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 83 Fordham Law Review 2557 (April, 2015) Over the past two decades, clients and other constituencies have pushed large law firms to pursue greater racial diversity in attorney hiring and retention. Although these firms have devoted extraordinary resources toward better recruiting and retaining attorneys of color, and despite a proliferation of best practices guides and diversity policy; Search Snippet: ...An International and Comparative Perspective RACE AND RAPPORT: HOMOPHILY AND RACIAL DISADVANTAGE IN LARGE LAW FIRMS Kevin Woodson [FNa1] Copyright ©... 2015
Richard L. Hasen Racial Hate Speech: a Comparative Analysis of the Impact of International Human Rights Law upon the Law of the United Kingdom and the United States 67 Alabama Law Review 365 (2015) Like history, the racial gerrymandering cause of action has repeated itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. In the 1990s, conservative members of the Supreme Court recognized a new cause of action, grounded in the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, of an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The claim was not; Search Snippet: ...2015 Symposium 2015: 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act RACIAL GERRYMANDERING'S QUESTIONABLE REVIVAL Richard L. Hasen [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2016... 2015
Dawinder S. Sidhu Racial Origins of Doctrines Limiting Prisoner Protest Speech 17 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1335 (May, 2015) Racial mirroring refers to efforts by one group to match the primary racial composition of another group. In contrast to racial balancing, which takes place when two groups are adjusted simultaneously to achieve a desired degree of racial equilibrium between them, racial mirroring occurs when the racial makeup of one group is adjusted so as to; Search Snippet: ...University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law May, 2015 Article RACIAL MIRRORING Dawinder S. Sidhu [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 The University... 2015
Kevin R. Johnson Racial Profiling Legalized in Arizona 48 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 967 (Summer, 2015) In Moncrieffe v. Holder, the Supreme Court held that the Board of Immigration Appeals could not remove a long-term lawful permanent resident from the United States based on a single misdemeanor conviction for possession of a small amount of marijuana. The decision clarified the meaning of an aggravated felony for purposes of removal, an important; Search Snippet: ...University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform Summer, 2015 Article RACIAL PROFILING IN THE WAR ON DRUGS MEETS THE IMMIGRATION REMOVAL... 2015
Palma Joy Strand Racism and Community Planning: Building Equity or Waiting for Explosions 42 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 763 (Summer 2015) The moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends toward justice. ~The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I begin this essay with a personal introduction. All of us understand the world through our own stories. And the stories that we send out into the world are most useful in contributing to our collective story if we honestly acknowledge that... 2015
Rita Hazlett Reaction To: Jury Discretion and Racism: the Stray Away from Furman and the Persistence of Racial Disparities in the Death Penalty 7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 43 (Spring, 2015) Coulson's article focuses on an important subject. As he states in the article, Thind is a case that helped define race relations in the United States even as the outcome was partially dictated by the existing policy of segregation. Thind reflects the idea that rather than living in a world of black and white, in the United States, Americans live; Search Snippet: ...REACTION TO: BRITISH IMPERIALISM, THE INDIAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT, AND THE RACIAL ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS IN THE NATURALIZATION ACT: UNITED STATES v. THIND... 2015
Gabriel J. Chin , Charles J. Vernon Reassessing American Democracy: the Enduring Challenge of Racial Exclusion 83 George Washington Law Review 882 (April, 2015) In Whren v. United States, the Supreme Court held, unanimously, that Fourth Amendment analysis was so radically objective that an otherwise legitimate search or arrest would not be invalidated even if an officer's decision to act was based on race. Although the Court has adhered to the view that the Fourth Amendment is applied objectively, the; Search Snippet: ...George Washington Law Review April, 2015 Article REASONABLE BUT UNCONSTITUTIONAL: RACIAL PROFILING AND THE RADICAL OBJECTIVITY OF WHREN V. UNITED STATES... 2015
Jessica Westerman Reckoning with Employment Discrimination in a "Post Racial" Era 22 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 355 (Winter, 2015) Enacted with the express long-term goal of closing racial and other achievement gaps in public education, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has so far disappointed proponents who previously had considered it a triumph for civil rights. The law's revolutionary reporting requirements mandate that state and local educational agencies disseminate; Search Snippet: ...NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND: UTILIZING DISAGGREGATED DATA TO ADDRESS THE RACIAL ACHIEVEMENT GAP Jessica Westerman [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by Jessica Westerman... 2015
Robert J. Smith Reducing Recidivism or Misclassifying Offenders?: How Implementing Risk and Needs Assessment in the Federal Prison System Will Perpetuate Racial Bias 37 University of Hawaii Law Review 295 (Spring, 2015) While public defenders, civil rights organizations, and academics have long championed the reduction of racially disparate policing outcomes, their chorus has added some transformational actors recently. Attorney General Eric Holder, for instance, has called for rigorous new standards to help end racial profiling. The police chief of Richmond,... 2015
Alfred L. Brophy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Reno 33 Law and History Review 1022 (November, 2015) In September 1963, several years before I was born, a vicious set of men, angered by the march of the Civil Rights Movement, planted a bomb at the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bomb left four young girls dead. As an adult I attended the trial of Bobby Frank Cherry, the last of the bombers to face trial. Shortly; Search Snippet: ...and History Review November, 2015 Book Review RENEE C. ROMANO, RACIAL RECKONING: PROSECUTING AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS MURDERS, CAMBRIDGE, MA: HARVARD UNIVERSITY... 2015
Nick J. Sciullo Riding into the Sunset in a "Post-Racial" World: Lessons in Equal Educational Opportunity and College Admissions Schemes in France and the United States 37 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (COMM/ENT) 201 (2015) I. Introduction. 201 II. The Richard Sherman Interview in Theory. 204 III. The Rhetoric of Black Danger. 206 IV. Racial Animus in Sports Media. 212 V. The Rebirth of the Bogeyman Myth. 220 A. The Legend of the Bogeyman; or, a Chance at Weak Ontology. 221 B. Francisco Goya y Que viene el Coco. 225 C. Wer Hat Angst Vorm Schwarzen Mann?. 227 VI; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal (COMM/ENT) 2015 Article RICHARD SHERMAN, RHETORIC, AND RACIAL ANIMUS IN THE REBIRTH OF THE BOGEYMAN MYTH Nick J... 2015
Xia Wang , Daniel P. Mears Sentencing Disparities and the Dangerous Perpetuation of Racial Bias 49 Law and Society Review 883 (December, 2015) Sentencing studies have incorporated social context in studying sentencing decisions, but to date the bulk of prior work has focused almost exclusively on county context. An unresolved question is whether there also may be state-level effects on sentencing. Drawing from the minority threat perspective, we examine (1) whether state-level racial and; Search Snippet: ...and Society Review December, 2015 Article SENTENCING AND STATE-LEVEL RACIAL AND ETHNIC CONTEXTS [FNa1] Xia Wang [FNa2] Daniel P. Mears... 2015
Michael Todisco Sharing Economy Inequality: How the Adoption of Class Action Waivers in the Sharing Economy Presents a Threat to Racial Discrimination Claims 67 Stanford Law Review Online 121 (March 14, 2015) The motel's neon vacancy sign lures the weary traveler from the freeway. She enters and inquires after a room. The receptionist, without looking up from his crossword, slides a clipboard across the front desk. An application? When did motels become prep schools? The traveler scribbles in the requested information. Name: Monique Jackson. Reason you... 2015
Abra S. Mason Shopping While Black: Applying 42 U.s.c. § 1981 to Cases of Consumer Racial Profiling 17 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 116 (2015) Shelby County v. Holder, the latest Supreme Court decision on voting rights, is the product of the post-racial movement. As Professor Gilda R. Daniels has explained, the post-racial movement is founded on the belief that President Obama's election in 2008 symbolized the fact that we have reached a place in our society where race has lessened in; Search Snippet: ...SHELBY COUNTY v. HOLDER: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE POST- RACIAL MOVEMENT'S RELATIONSHIP TO BYSTANDER DENIAL AND ITS EFFECT ON PERCEPTIONS... 2015
Sam Erman, Gregory M. Walton Stereotype Threat and Racial Differences in Citizens' Experiences of Police Encounters 88 Southern California Law Review 307 (January, 2015) A new generation of social science research creates new opportunities to increase fairness and reduce racial inequality in education. This research raises important questions for antidiscrimination law. Over the past twenty years, research conducted around the world has established that for students subject to pervasive negative intellectual; Search Snippet: ...THREAT AND ANTIDISCRIMINATION LAW: AFFIRMATIVE STEPS TO PROMOTE MERITOCRACY AND RACIAL EQUALITY IN EDUCATION Sam Erman Gregory M. Walton [FNa1] Copyright... 2015
Cynthia J. Najdowski , Bette L. Bottoms , Phillip Atiba Goff , University at Albany, State University of New York, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of California, Los Angeles Sticks and Stones Will Break My Bones, but Will Racist Humor?: a Look Around the World at Whether Police Officers Have a Free Speech Right to Engage in Racist Humor 39 Law and Human Behavior 463 (October, 2015) We conducted 2 studies to investigate how cultural stereotypes that depict Blacks as criminals affect the way Blacks experience encounters with police officers, expecting that such encounters induce Blacks to feel stereotype threat (i.e., concern about being judged and treated unfairly by police because of the stereotype). In Study 1, we asked... 2015
André Keeton Structural Racism and "The Wire": Reproducing Racial Inequality on the Small Screen 21 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 55 (Fall, 2015) In 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States decided Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of the County of Burlington. The Court held that full strip searches, including cavity searches, are permissible regardless of the existence of basic reasonable suspicion that the arrestee is in possession of contraband. Further, the Court held that law; Search Snippet: ...Fall, 2015 Article STRIP SEARCHING IN THE AGE OF COLORBLIND RACISM: THE DISPARATE IMPACT OF FLORENCE V. BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS... 2015
DeLeith Duke Gossett Taking a Stand?: an Initial Assessment of the Social and Racial Effects of Recent Innovations in Self-defense Laws 55 Santa Clara Law Review 261 (2015) A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view. ~ Robert Frost Introduction. 262 I. Race and Colorblindness in America. 266 A. Colorblindness as an Aspirational Goal. 268 B. Co-opting Colorblindness to Keep the Status Quo. 272 1. Restrictive v. Structural Racism. 272 2. Bell's Interest Convergence; Search Snippet: ...BLINDERS: HOW IGNORING THE HAGUE CONVENTION'S SUBSIDIARITY PRINCIPLE FURTHERS STRUCTURAL RACISM AGAINST BLACK AMERICAN CHILDREN DeLeith Duke Gossett [FNa1] Copyright ©... 2015
Mario L. Barnes Taking a Step Back: Racial Injustice in America 83 Fordham Law Review 3179 (May, 2015) [I]t's time to question laws that senselessly expand the concept of self-defense and sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods. These laws try to fix something that was never broken. There has always been a legal defense for using deadly force if -- and the if is important -- no safe retreat is available. Perhaps, not surprisingly, the; Search Snippet: ...TAKING A STAND?: AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SOCIAL AND RACIAL EFFECTS OF RECENT INNOVATIONS IN SELF-DEFENSE LAWS Mario L... 2015
Shamena Anwar, Hanming Fang Testing Racial Profiling: Empirical Assessment of Disparate Treatment by Police 44 Journal of Legal Studies Stud. 1 (January, 2015) We develop a model of a parole board contemplating whether to grant parole release to a prisoner who has finished serving his minimum sentence. The model implies a simple outcome test for racial prejudice that is based on the released inmate's rate of recidivism and is robust to the inframarginality problem. Our model has several testable... 2015
Sarah Jane Forman The (Un)compelling Interest for Underrepresented Minority Students: Enhancing the Education of White Students Underexposed to Racial Diversity 109 Northwestern University Law Review Online 171 (February 23, 2015) It is a warm autumn night in St. Louis. The Cardinals are celebrating a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in game four of the National League Championship Series. The bitter racial divisions that have erupted in this city following the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown momentarily dissolve into a sea of red and white as fans dressed; Search Snippet: ...2015 THE #FERGUSON EFFECT: OPENING THE PANDORA'S BOX OF IMPLICIT RACIAL BIAS IN JURY SELECTION Sarah Jane Forman [FNa1] Copyright © 2015... 2015
William Y. Chin The American Dreamers: Racial Prejudices and Discrimination as Seen Through the History of American Immigration Law 16 Rutgers Race & the Law Review Rev. 1 (2015) Change and permanence can coexist. Witness the arc of racism in America as it evolves from overt to covert manifestations even as it remains a permanent feature of the American landscape. America is now in the age of covert racism. Such surreptitious racism is difficult, but not impossible, to discern. Its ubiety can be apprehended at the; Search Snippet: ...Race & the Law Review 2015 Article THE AGE OF COVERT RACISM IN THE ERA OF THE ROBERTS COURT DURING THE WANING... 2015
Richard R.W. Brooks The Bar Examination and the Dream Deferred: a Critical Analysis of the Mbe, Social Closure, and Racial and Ethnic Stratification 124 Yale Law Journal 2626 (May, 2015) Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage BY DARIA ROITHMAYR NEW YORK: NYU PRESS, 2014, PP. 205, $25.00 INTRODUCTION. 2628 I. MODELS AND METAPHORS. 2631 II. AND ACTUAL CARTELS. 2635 III. RACIAL COVENANTS AND WHITE PRIMARIES: THE CENTRAL ACCOUNTS. 2637 IV. WEALTH, NETWORKS, AND FEEDBACK LOOPS. 2642 A. The Racial; Search Snippet: ...Yale Law Journal May, 2015 Book Review THE BANALITY OF RACIAL INEQUALITY Richard R.W. Brooks [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 Yale Law... 2015
Dianne Post The Great Rural Boon: Racial Politics and the Criminalization of the Urban Poor 51-FEB Arizona Attorney 40 (February, 2015) Racism is a pigment of the imagination. --Ruben Rumbaut A hundred and ten years ago, race, religion and children's rights collided in a mining town in Arizona. The rift between communities, between the rich and poor, between the whites and non-whites, played out in a case that focused on states' rights and parens patriae and went all the way to; Search Snippet: ...ATTORNEY Arizona Attorney February, 2015 Feature THE GREAT ORPHAN ABDUCTION Racism, Religion, States' Rights Dianne Post [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by the... 2015
Tom I. Romero, II The Last Line of Defense: a Comparative Analysis of United States Supreme Court and New Jersey Supreme Court Approaches to Racial Bias in the Imposition of the Death Penalty 20 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 415 (Spring, 2015) This Article advocates for a fundamental re-understanding about the way that the history of race is understood by the current Supreme Court. Represented by the racial rights opinions of Justice John Roberts that celebrate racial progress, the Supreme Court has equivocated and rendered obsolete the historical experiences of people of color in the... 2015
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