| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Lisette McCormick |
National Consortium of Task Forces and Commissions on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts |
11 Lawyers Journal 1 (August 14, 2009) |
On May 6-9, 2009, the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness (Interbranch Commission) and the ACBA served as the co-hosts for the 21st Annual Meeting of the National Consortium for Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts (National Consortium). Expanding on Pittsburgh's historical distinction as the City of; Search Snippet: ...LAWYERS JOURNAL Lawyers Journal August 14, 2009 NATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR RACIAL AND ETHNIC FAIRNESS CONFERENCE A SUCCESS Lisette McCormick Copyright © 2009... |
2009 |
| Marissa Jackson |
Neoliberal Multiculturalism: the Remaking of Cultural Rights and Racial Dominance in Central America |
11 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 156 (2009) |
But once we have taken note of the situation, once we have understood it, we consider the job done. How can we possibly not hear that voice again tumbling down the steps of History: It's no longer a question of knowing the world, but of transforming it. In the 1950s, Franz Fanon boldly asserted: There is a fact: White men consider themselves; Search Snippet: ...African-American Law & Policy 2009 Article NEO-COLONIALISM, SAME OLD RACISM: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE UNITED STATES' SHIFT TOWARD COLORBLINDNESS... |
2009 |
| Preston C. Green, III , Joseph O. Oluwole , Bruce D. Baker |
No Two Seats: the Elusive Quest for Political Equality |
12 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 285 (Winter 2009) |
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB or Act) is laudable for its recognition that certain groups are not achieving as well academically as others, and that school districts need to take action to improve their performance. While the NCLB seems to acknowledge the need for different approaches for different students, it is doubtful that the... |
2009 |
| Kevin Brown |
Nurturing in the Service of White Culture: Racial Subordination, Gestational Surrogacy, and the Ideology of Motherhood |
34 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 287 (Spring, 2009) |
In Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, all of the Justices reaffirmed their commitment to the 2003 higher education affirmative action decision in Grutter v. Bollinger. Grutter was clearly a victory for affirmative action in higher education. In Grutter, the Court concluded that the affirmative action policy; Search Snippet: ...THE APPROPRIATE TIME FOR SELECTIVE HIGHER EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO COLLECT RACIAL AND ETHNIC DATA ON ITS BLACK APPLICANTS AND STUDENTS Kevin... |
2009 |
| Derrick Bell |
On Death's Doorstep: the Racially Stratified Impact of the Michigan Self-defense Act and Why Race-centric Advocacy Is Not the Answer |
36-FALL Human Rights Rts. 2 (Fall, 2009) |
This article is based on a presentation Professor Bell gave to the Yale Black Law Students Association shortly after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. In our media-obsessed society, every aspect of Barack Obama's election and inauguration was covered like a heavy rain on a parched landscape. It was a historic landmark, with Obama... |
2009 |
| Abby Sullivan |
One Client, Different Races: Estimating Racial Disparity in Chapter Choice Using Matched Pairs of Debtors |
6 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 101 (Winter 2009) |
Since 2006 the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increasingly conducted workplace and residence raids as a prominent mechanism for the enforcement of immigration laws. According to the Immigration Policy Center, a nonprofit immigration think tank, the immigration reform debate's heavy focus on undocumented immigration; Search Snippet: ...Winter 2009 Note ON THIN ICE: CRACKING DOWN ON THE RACIAL PROFILING OF IMMIGRANTS AND IMPLEMENTING A COMPASSIONATE ENFORCEMENT POLICY Abby... |
2009 |
| Sharon L. Browne |
On-line Racism |
10 Engage: The Journal of the Federalist Society Practice Groups 8 (February 1, 2009) |
At the heart of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection lies the simple command that the Government must treat citizens as individuals, not as simply components of a racial, religious, sexual or national class. Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District A little more than a year has passed since the U.S. Supreme Court; Search Snippet: ...COMMUNITY SCHOOLS v. SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL REPRESENTATION IN PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Sharon L... |
2009 |
| Helen H. Kang |
Putting Environmental Racism on the National Agenda? A Review of Race and the Incidence of Environmental Hazards: a Time for Discourse |
31 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 121 (2009) |
When I was invited to participate in the Access to Equal Justice: Critical Perspectives on Court and Law Reform Colloquium, our panel was slated to discuss Pursuing Environmental Justice: Obstacles and Opportunities. Before our panel convened, Professor Jane Spinak delivered the keynote address for the colloquium. I attended Professor Spinak's... |
2009 |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
Queer Refuge: the Impacts of Homoantagonism and Racism in U.s. Asylum Law |
18 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 609 (2009) |
This Article analyzes the relationship between the struggle for the recognition of Black women's reproductive rights in the United States and the fight for racial justice. Specifically, it argues that the problematization of poor Black women's fertility--evidenced by the depiction of single Black motherhood as a national crisis, the condemnation of... |
2009 |
| Malia Reddick , Michael J. Nelson , Rachel Paine Caufield |
Racial and Gender Justice in the Child Welfare and Child Support Systems |
48 Judges' Journal 28 (Summer, 2009) |
Most Americans would agree that racial and gender diversity is an important quality for our nation's courts. Whether judicial diversity is valued because it increases public confidence in the courts, provides decision-making power to formerly disenfranchised populations, or is essential to ensuring equal justice for all, citizens seem to prefer a; Search Snippet: ...2009 WL 4272771 JUDGES7D JOURNAL Judges' Journal Summer, 2009 Feature RACIAL AND GENDER DIVERSITY ON STATE COURTS An AJS Study Malia... |
2009 |
| Kelly Sarabyn |
Racial Antagonism, Sexual Betrayal, Graft, and More: Rethinking and Remedying the Universe of Defense Counsel Failings |
19 George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal 553 (Summer 2009) |
Scholars construe the equal protection doctrine in the post-Civil Rights Era as evincing a struggle between the conservative Justices' anti-classification principle and the progressive Justices' anti-subordination principle. After a few indeterminate strikes for each side, the anti-classification principle largely won the battle. Rather than add to; Search Snippet: ...George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal Summer 2009 Articles RACIAL AND SEXUAL PATERNALISM Kelly Sarabyn [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009 George... |
2009 |
| Dov Fox |
Racial Classification or Cultural Identification?: the Gathering Rights Jurisprudence of Two Twentieth Century Hawaiian Supreme Court Justices |
118 Yale Law Journal 1844 (June, 2009) |
This Note considers the moral status of practices that facilitate parental selection of sperm donors according to race. Arguments about intentions and consequences cannot convincingly explain the race-conscious design of donor catalogs. This prompts us to examine the expressive dimension of wrongful discrimination. Even practices marked by innocent... |
2009 |
| John L. Ropiequet |
Racial Discrimination in Access to Health: the Brazilian Experience |
63 Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report 156 (Fall-Winter 2009) |
A large group of class actions alleging racial discrimination under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) by various auto finance companies concluded in 2007, more than a decade after the first of the cases was filed. In those cases, it was claimed that the common practice by which auto dealers set a dealer reserve by marking up the buy rate; Search Snippet: ...Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report Fall-Winter 2009 December 2009 RACIAL DISCRIMINATION CLAIMS IN CURRENT MORTGAGE AND AUTO FINANCE LITIGATION: THE... |
2009 |
| Daniela Ikawa , Laura Mattar |
Racial Discrimination in America |
57 University of Kansas Law Review 949 (May, 2009) |
The Brazilian version of race is quite different from the American version. In Brazil, blacks account for almost half of the population, while they are only a little more than one tenth of the United States population. Racial discrimination in Brazil is based on phenotype and not on ancestry. De jure discrimination (although not de facto; Search Snippet: ...2009 Symposium Law, Reparations & Racial Disparities Health and Racial Disparities RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN ACCESS TO HEALTH: THE BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE Daniela Ikawa... |
2009 |
| Richard Marsico, Jane Yoo |
Racial Disparities in the Allocation of Stem Cells |
53 New York Law School Law Review 1011 (2008/2009) |
The recent turmoil in the financial markets related to rising default rates on subprime home purchase loans should not obscure the fact that study after study has shown African-Americans, Latinos, and residents of predominantly minority neighborhoods receive a disproportionately high percentage of subprime home purchase loans. Not only do... |
2009 |
| Howard A. Davidson |
Racial Disparities in the Delivery of Health Care |
28 Child Law Practice 94 (August, 2009) |
In most states, clear data show that minorities are disparately involved in child protective court proceedings. Poverty, inadequate housing within poor neighborhoods served by urban juvenile courts, and racism are often claimed to be likely causes. Intrusive child protective agency scrutiny and interventions are often fueled by negative beliefs; Search Snippet: ...CHILD LAW PRACTICE Child Law Practice August, 2009 In Practice RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CHILD WELFARE SYSTEM: REVERSING TRENDS Howard A... |
2009 |
| Darren Lenard Hutchinson |
Racial Extremism in the Army |
86 Washington University Law Review 917 (2009) |
I. Introduction: Two Louisiana Stories--Race, Inequality, and Rhetoric. 918 II. Nineteenth-Century Racial Discourse. 924 A. Racial Exhaustion: An American Narrative. 924 1. Narratives and Society. 924 2. Social Narratives on Race. 925 3. Particulars of Racial Exhaustion. 926 B. Low Stamina: Racial Exhaustion in the Reconstruction Era. 928 1. From; Search Snippet: ...WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Washington University Law Review 2009 Article RACIAL EXHAUSTION Darren Lenard Hutchinson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009 Washington University... |
2009 |
| Marc Mauer |
Racial Impact Statements as a Means of Reducing Unwarranted Sentencing Disparities |
23-WTR Criminal Justice 16 (Winter, 2009) |
In reaction to a study that found Iowa topped the nation in racial disparity in its prison population, Iowa Governor Chet Culver in April 2008 made history by signing into law the nation's first piece of legislation to require policy makers to prepare racial impact statements for proposed legislation that affects sentencing, probation, or parole; Search Snippet: ...2009 WL 120312 CRIMINAL JUSTICE Criminal Justice Winter, 2009 Feature RACIAL IMPACT STATEMENTS Changing Policies to Address Disparities Marc Mauer [FNa1... |
2009 |
| Camille A. Nelson |
Racial Paradox in a Law and Society Odyssey |
86 Denver University Law Review 743 (2009) |
The 2008 political season provided us with sublime political spectacle. The contest for presidential nominee of the Democratic National party was an exciting and historic race. The subsequent presidential race whipped Americans, and indeed many throughout the world, into a frenzy. Never before did two white women and a black man exemplify the; Search Snippet: ...DENVER UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Denver University Law Review 2009 Article RACIAL PARADOX AND ECLIPSE: OBAMA AS A BALM FOR WHAT AILS... |
2009 |
| L. Darnell Weeden |
Racial Profiling and the War on Terror |
36 Southern University Law Review 239 (Spring, 2009) |
The issue to be addressed is whether a prosecutor's use of discretion targeting individuals because of race, constitutes race profiling in violation of the Equal Protection Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. In my opinion arbitrary use of discretion by a prosecutor to target any individual because of race is a... |
2009 |
| Michal Tamir |
Racial Profiling-separate and Unequal Keeping the Minorities in Line-the Role of Law Enforcement in America |
15 Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy 71 (Spring 2009) |
I. Introduction. 72 II. Racial Profiling. 73 III. Racial Profiling and the Law. 76 A. Racial Profiling and the War on Drugs. 79 B. Racial Profiling and the War on Terror. 80 IV. Justifications for Racial Profiling in the War of Terror. 81 A. The Legality of Purpose and Relevance of Considerations. 81 B. Proportionality. 83 C. Discretion. 85 V. What; Search Snippet: ...Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy Spring 2009 Article RACIAL PROFILING: WHO IS THE EXECUTIONER AND DOES HE HAVE A... |
2009 |
| Kathleen Sullivan, Ohio University |
Racial Upside: Deconstructing the 'Merits' of Jeremy Lin's Nba Contract |
43 Law and Society Review 445 (June, 2009) |
The Supreme Court invalidated bans on interracial marriage in 1967, but Alabama did not remove its own anti-miscegenation provision until 2000. Novkov views bans on interracial intimacy not as a legacy of a bygone era but as a key resource in state-building. Limiting her scope to the development of a single state on a single issue provides a... |
2009 |
| David Welsh |
Racism and the Law: Slavery, Integration, and Modern Resegregation in America |
11 Journal of Law and Family Studies 431 (2009) |
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law, declared Justice Harlan in his ringing dissent to Plessy v. Ferguson. Yet in 1896, his vision of a colorblind; Search Snippet: ...Studies 2009 Symposium New Frontiers in Family Law Study Note RACISM AND THE LAW: SLAVERY, INTEGRATION, AND MODERN RESEGREGATION IN AMERICA... |
2009 |
| David Welsh |
Racism and U.s. Immigration Law: Prospects for Reform after "9/11?" |
2009 Utah Law Review 479 (2009) |
The destinies of the two races in this country are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of both require that the common government of all shall not permit the seeds of race hate to be planted under the sanction of law, declared Justice Harlan in his ringing dissent to Plessy v. Ferguson. Yet in 1896, his vision of a colorblind; Search Snippet: ...Review 2009 Symposium New Frontiers in Family Law Study Note RACISM AND THE LAW: SLAVERY, INTEGRATION, AND MODERN RESEGREGATION IN AMERICA... |
2009 |
| Hugo Adam Bedau |
Racism: a Major Source of Property and Wealth Inequality in America |
76 Tennessee Law Review 615 (Spring, 2009) |
Opponents of the death penalty, by virtue of their arguments, tend to divide into two groups. The first and larger group consists of those who oppose this penalty because of the risk of convicting and executing an innocent defendant-or because of the manifest and chronic unfairness that governs the management of our death penalty system, especially; Search Snippet: ...3003840 TENNESSEE LAW REVIEW Tennessee Law Review Spring, 2009 Symposium RACISM, WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS, AND THE DEATH PENALTY Hugo Adam Bedau [FNa1... |
2009 |
| Robert Steinbuch |
Racist Float Ruled Protected Speech |
25 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 199 (Spring 2009) |
Racist has become a largely meaningless term of political invective-like . . . Liberal, Neocon[servative], name your favorite term of political invective. In the opinionation business, being called a racist isn't so much an insult as an occupational hazard. As often as it's thrown around, the term Racist has come to mean anybody you really, really; Search Snippet: ...America? The Obligations of Lawyers, the Legislature, and the Court RACIST Robert Steinbuch [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009 President and Fellows of... |
2009 |
| Iris Halpern |
Reacting to Racism |
18 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 743 (2009) |
In 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published to significant popular acclaim: a reception that has proved enduring. Mockingbird remains one of the most widely circulated works in United States history. Curiously enough, however, the nonpareil American novel known for its condemnation of racism has proven itself a more venerable object in the heart; Search Snippet: ...LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF RACIAL SUBORDINATION Iris Halpern [FNa1] Copyright © 2009 by the Columbia Journal... |
2009 |
| Bethany R. Berger |
Redacting Race in the Quest for Colorblind Justice: How Racial Privacy Legislation Subverts Antidiscrimination Laws |
56 UCLA Law Review 591 (February, 2009) |
How does racism work in American Indian law and policy? Scholarship on the subject too often has assumed that racism works for Indians in the same way that it does for African Americans, and has therefore either emphasized the presence of hallmarks of black-white racism, such as uses of blood quantum, as evidence of racism, or has emphasized the; Search Snippet: ...UCLA LAW REVIEW UCLA Law Review February, 2009 Article RED: RACISM AND THE AMERICAN INDIAN Bethany R. Berger [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2009 |
| Raphael Cohen-Almagor |
Regulating Race, Gender, and Ethnic Bias in the Legal Profession: a Modest Proposal |
17 Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law 405 (Summer 2009) |
Israel is a Jewish democracy. It is founded on Halacha (Jewish law) and on liberal principles. While some segments of Jewish orthodoxy believe there is no room for freedom because all is dictated by the Almighty, liberal ideology is based on the tenets of freedom. While some segments of Jewish orthodoxy believe that all Jews are in the same boat,; Search Snippet: ...2009 Symposium: Comparative Law of Hate Speech REGULATING HATE AND RACIAL SPEECH IN ISRAEL Raphael Cohen-Almagor [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009... |
2009 |
| Jeannine Bell |
Retargeting Affirmative Action: a Program to Serve Those Most Harmed by past Racism and Avoid Intractable Problems Triggered by per Se Racial Preferences |
84 Indiana Law Journal 963 (Summer, 2009) |
It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. The law may not change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless. In Spain on November 17, 2004, during a friendly soccer match between Spain and England, two Black players for the English team were subjected to monkey noises and racist slogans chanted by; Search Snippet: ...Expression in Europe and the United States RESTRAINING THE HEARTLESS: RACIST SPEECH AND MINORITY RIGHTS Jeannine Bell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009... |
2009 |
| Michele Goodwin , Nevin Gewertz |
Rethinking Drug Courts: Restorative Justice as a Response to Racial Injustice |
72 Law and Contemporary Problems 251 (Fall 2009) |
The Supreme Court's most recent affirmative-action opinion, Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School Dist. No. 1, suggests a new social climate in education reform--one in which government-forced integration in schools is no longer necessary, or at least not the best idea. Solutions to poor performance in African American schools may... |
2009 |
| Michael M. O'Hear |
Rethinking First Amendment Assumptions about Racist and Sexist Speech |
20 Stanford Law and Policy Review 463 (2009) |
Since their first appearance in Miami in 1989, specialized drug treatment courts have grown phenomenally popular, with nearly 2,000 now in existence. Although their effectiveness is a matter of debate among academics, their political appeal remains strong. This popularity stems in large part from the unpopularity of what is generally seen as the; Search Snippet: ...Reform RETHINKING DRUG COURTS: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AS A RESPONSE TO RACIAL INJUSTICE Michael M. O'Hear [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009 Board of... |
2009 |
| David Gillborn |
Risky Situations: Sources of Racial Disparity in Police Behavior |
44 Wake Forest Law Review 535 (Summer 2009) |
This Article examines the costs of so-called free speech in relation to race, particularly with reference to debates about a supposed link between race and intelligence/educability. Drawing on an analysis of media coverage in the United Kingdom, I show how Whiteness (a regime of beliefs and attitudes that embodies the interests and assumptions of... |
2009 |
| Christian B. Sundquist |
Second Hand Prejudice, Racial Analogies and Shared Showers: Why "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Won't Sell |
25 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 57 (Spring 2009) |
The meaning of race has been vigorously contested throughout history. Early theories of race assigned social, intellectual, moral and physical values to perceived physical differences among groups of people. The perception that race should be defined in terms of genetic and biological difference fuelled the race science of the eighteenth and... |
2009 |
| Marques P. Richeson |
Sexual Harassment and Racial Disparity: the Mutual Construction of Gender and Race |
25 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 95 (Spring 2009) |
I. History of Castration in the United States: Eliminating the Unfit . 98 II. The Middle Passage: From Circumcision to Castration. 101 III. History of Black Male Castration: Demasculinization, Dehumanization, and Invisibility. 103 A. Castration as a Tool of Demasculinization. 107 B. Castration as a Tool of Dehumanization. 108 C. Castration as a; Search Snippet: ...TO-CASTRATE: A BLACK BOX WARNING OF CHEMICAL CASTRATION'S POTENTIAL RACIAL SIDE EFFECTS Marques P. Richeson [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2009 President... |
2009 |
| Thomas Kleven |
Systemic Racial Bias and Rico's Application to Criminal Street and Prison Gangs |
8 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 207 (Spring/Summer 2009) |
The thesis of this article is that the United States is systemically a highly classist and racist society, that classism and racism are interrelated and overlapping phenomena, and that the achievement of a non-classist/non-racist society requires a mass movement of working-class people of all ethnicities for social and racial justice for all. By... |
2009 |
| Amanda Bullington |
Take off the [Color] Blinders: How Ignoring the Hague Convention's Subsidiarity Principle Furthers Structural Racism Against Black American Children |
34 Oklahoma City University Law Review 199 (Summer 2009) |
Often in employment discrimination cases there is no single event that causes obvious offense, but rather there are several occurrences of harassment and discriminatory behavior throughout the work environment. This pattern of behavior is the essence of the hostile-work-environment-discrimination claim. In developing this type of civil-rights; Search Snippet: ...Tenth Circuit Survey--Comment TADEMY V. UNION PACIFIC CORPORATION: THE RACIALLY HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT CLAIM UNDER TITLE VII AND § 1981... |
2009 |
| Kimberly Jenkins Robinson |
The Constitutionality of Racial Balancing in Charter Schools |
50 Boston College Law Review 277 (March, 2009) |
In 2007, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 that the racial classifications used by school districts in Seattle and Louisville to create diverse schools were unconstitutional. Justice Kennedy provided the deciding vote but also noted that school districts could pursue; Search Snippet: ...FUTURE OF RACE-NEUTRAL EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE DIVERSITY AND AVOID RACIAL ISOLATION IN ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS Kimberly Jenkins Robinson [FNa1... |
2009 |
| Michael K. Brown |
The Death Sentencing of Rapists in Pre-furman Texas (1942-1971): the Racial Dimension |
58 DePaul Law Review 645 (Spring 2009) |
Public support for the death penalty remains very high today at 64%, even though it has declined slightly from its 1994 peak of 80%. Although we are accustomed to think of Americans as relentlessly predisposed to favor execution despite questions about the fairness of the death penalty and its uncertain effect in deterring homicides, public support; Search Snippet: ...Review Symposium Article THE DEATH PENALTY AND THE POLITICS OF RACIAL RESENTMENT IN THE POST CIVIL RIGHTS ERA Michael K. Brown... |
2009 |
| Meghan Shapiro , P.O. Box 4433, Lexington, VA 24450, 703-915-9594, E-mail Shapiro.Meghan@gmail.com |
The Diversity Imperative Revisited: Racial and Gender Inclusion in Clinical Law Faculty |
33-JUL Champion 58 (July, 2009) |
It is easy enough to craft an argument that increasing diversity in the criminal justice system will decrease racism, but that would significantly oversimplify both concepts--diversity and racism--and their relationship. The reality is complicated, as it always is with the criminal justice system. But nothing less should be expected of a topic that; Search Snippet: ...July, 2009 Column Law Student Essay Competition THE DIVERSENESS OF RACISM AND THE UNCERTAIN POTENTIAL OF DIVERSITY Meghan Shapiro [FNa1] P.O... |
2009 |
| Zvi H. Triger |
The General Aptitude Test Battery and the Debate over Race Norming, Racial Preferences, and Affirmative Action |
30 Women's Rights Law Reporter 479 (Spring/Summer 2009) |
The ancient proscription against intermarriage, based on a broad range of prohibitions against mixing religion, race, status, nationality and so forth, is common to numerous societies and religions that have thrived at different times and in various places. For example, marriage between Jews and non-Jews (gentiles) was prohibited as long ago as the; Search Snippet: ...Women's Rights Law Reporter Spring/Summer 2009 Articles THE GENDERED RACIAL FORMATION: FOREIGN MEN, OUR WOMEN, AND THE LAW Zvi H... |
2009 |
| Vicki Been, Ingrid Ellen, Josiah Madar |
The History of Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Initiatives in Michigan-where We Have Been, Where We Hope to Go, and Why it Is Important |
36 Fordham Urban Law Journal 361 (April, 2009) |
Introduction. 362 I. Racial Disparities in Subprime Lending. 363 II. Causes of Racial Disparities in Subprime Lending and the Role of Segregation. 364 A. Underlying Economic Inequality. 364 B. Geographic Differences and Borrower Behavior. 367 C. Racial Discrimination, Steering, and Targeting. 369 D. The Role of Segregation. 371 III. Prior; Search Snippet: ...Journal April, 2009 Article THE HIGH COST OF SEGREGATION: EXPLORING RACIAL DISPARITIES IN HIGH-COST LENDING Vicki Been Ingrid Ellen Josiah... |
2009 |
| Regina A. Schuller, Veronica Kazoleas, Kerry Kawakami |
The Impact of Racism on Maternal Health Outcomes for Black Women |
33 Law and Human Behavior 320 (August, 2009) |
The current study examines the impact of the challenge for cause procedure and its effectiveness in curbing racial prejudice in trials involving Black defendants. Participants were provided with a trial summary of a defendant charged with either drug trafficking or embezzlement. The race of the defendant was either White or Black, with; Search Snippet: ...August, 2009 Article THE IMPACT OF PREJUDICE SCREENING PROCEDURES ON RACIAL BIAS IN THE COURTROOM Regina A. Schuller Veronica Kazoleas Kerry... |
2009 |
| Gabriel J. Chin |
The Journey from Brown V. Board of Education to Grutter V. Bollinger: from Racial Assimilation to Diversity |
44 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 361 (Summer 2009) |
On casual examination, it certainly appears that the young men known as the Jena Six were charged based on race. Not only were white students who hung nooses from a tree on school grounds not charged with a crime, but they were also granted leniency in school discipline. Meanwhile, the six African American defendants, accused of attacking a white; Search Snippet: ...Summer 2009 Article THE JENA SIX AND THE HISTORY OF RACIALLY COMPROMISED JUSTICE IN LOUISIANA Gabriel J. Chin [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2009 |
| Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado , Flavia Portella Püschel , José Rodrigo Rodriguez |
The Keyes to Reclaiming the Racial History of the Roberts Court |
77 Fordham Law Review 1535 (March, 2009) |
The goal of this essay is to reflect on how the application of statutes by courts can influence the juridification of social demands, as evidenced in the African-Brazilian movement. To achieve this, first, this essay analyzes how the African-Brazilian movement approached its fight for racial equality. We show how, traditionally, the... |
2009 |
| John Tehranian |
The Law and Economics of Racial Discrimination in Employment by David A. Strauss |
41 Connecticut Law Review 781 (February, 2009) |
This Article examines and critiques media portraits of the Middle East and Middle-Eastern Americans by tracing the alarming impact of this last minstrel show on public policy and the war on terrorism The Article begins by analyzing racial profiling's problematic discourse of legitimation, deracinating its unsound roots and charting the intricate... |
2009 |
| Elizabeth Bartholet |
The Racial Double Helix: Watson, Crick, and Brown V. Board of Education (Our No-bell Prize Award Speech) |
51 Arizona Law Review 871 (Winter 2009) |
A powerful coalition has made Racial Disproportionality the central issue in child welfare today. It notes that black children represent a larger percentage of the foster care population than they do of the general population. It claims this is caused by racial discrimination and calls for reducing the number of black children removed to foster; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Arizona Law Review Winter 2009 December 2009 Article THE RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY MOVEMENT IN CHILD WELFARE: FALSE FACTS AND DANGEROUS DIRECTIONS... |
2009 |
| Alice M. Thomas |
The Racially Disparate Impact of Restrictions on the Public Funding of Abortion: an Analysis of Current Equal Protection Doctrine |
5 Florida A & M University Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall 2009) |
I. Introduction. 2 II. Contextual Background & Historical Perspective. 15 III. The Problem - Entrenched Racial Inequality Amplified through the Multiracial Wealth Divide. 24 A. The Nature and Magnitude of the Problem. 24 B. Lifting the Veil on the Past: The History of the Wealth Divide. 29 1. In General. 29 2. Native Americans. 31 3. African; Search Snippet: ...Florida A & M University Law Review Fall 2009 Article THE RACIAL WEALTH DIVIDE THROUGH THE EYES OF THE YOUNGER FAMILY: UNDOING... |
2009 |
| Angela Mae Kupenda , © 2009 |
The State, Criminal Law, and Racial Discrimination: a Comment |
20 University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 33 (April, 2009) |
The women's movement for equality bootstrapped to the movement for equality for Blacks. Now the reverse can happen. This Article uses family law and the plight of some battered women, as a lens to address analogous racial conflicts in the broader American family. Several years ago, I was casually listening to the television while doing a little... |
2009 |
| Ivan E. Bodensteiner |
The Supreme Court, Racial Politics, and the Right to Vote: Shaw V. Reno and the Future of the Voting Rights Act |
61 Rutgers Law Review 199 (Winter 2009) |
This Article suggests that the U.S. Supreme Court, through its decisions in cases alleging race discrimination, stands as a major barrier to racial equality in the United States. There are several aspects of its decisions that lead to this result. Between 1868 and 1954, the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, while it had been... |
2009 |