| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Randall Kennedy |
Restoring Honor: Ending Racial Disparities in University Honor Systems |
58 Saint Louis University Law Journal 989 (Summer 2014) |
I had occasion recently to describe Sanford Levinson as the most adventurous, independent, and wide-ranging intellectual in the American legal academy. His Childress Lecture supports my claim. Its breadth, candor, incisiveness, suggestiveness, and passion is definitely Levinsonian. He begins by asking who counts as part of we the American; Search Snippet: ...Lecture RESPONSE TO SANFORD LEVINSON: WHO COUNTS?--THE POLITICS OF RACIAL MEMBERSHIP AND EXCOMMUNICATION Randall Kennedy [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Saint... |
2014 |
| Lauren Elizabeth Sparks |
Saint Francis College and Shaare Tefila Congregation: Has the U.s. Supreme Court Resurrected Nazi Racial Theories? |
6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 253 (Fall, 2014) |
[W]e find ourselves bound, first without, then within, by the nature of our categorization. And escape is not effected through a bitter railing against this trap; it is as though this very striving were the only motion needed to spring the trap upon us. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our; Search Snippet: ...HOW LA GANG CULTURE AND U.S. IMMIGRATION POLICY CONTRIBUTE TO RACIAL INJUSTICE FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN ASYLUM APPLICANTS Lauren Elizabeth Sparks [FNa1... |
2014 |
| F. Michael Higginbotham |
Say it Loud: Indirect Speech and Racial Equality in the Interrogation Room |
31 GPSolo 18 (November/December, 2014) |
President Theodore Roosevelt once said: The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . [rather than to] those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Those willing to examine issues of race deserve credit for their willingness to enter this most divisive of arenas. Too often today, many refuse to discuss racial; Search Snippet: ...DREAM FOR ALL Transforming America from Jim Crow to Post- Racial F. Michael Higginbotham [FNa1] Copyright © 2014 by American Bar Association... |
2014 |
| H. Mitchell Caldwell , Adrienne M. Hewitt |
Share and Share Alike? Considering Racial Discrimination in the Nascent Room-sharing Economy |
38 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 67 (Summer, 2014) |
This Article addresses the role stereotypes, particularly racial stereotypes, play in the process of jury selection in criminal cases. This Article discusses the law that has evolved since Batson and uses empirical data to provide added insight into the exercise of peremptory challenges. Further, the authors consider how current scholarship in... |
2014 |
| A. Mechele Dickerson |
Sources of Judicial Reluctance to Use Psychic Harm as a Basis for Suppressing Racist, Sexist and Ethnically Offensive Speech |
93 Texas Law Review 179 (November, 2014) |
Saving the Neighborhood provides a rich historical account of the methods white homeowners used to keep black homeowners out of their neighborhoods. The book primarily focuses on racially restrictive property covenants (racial covenants or RCs), i.e., private contracts where property owners agreed not to sell, lease, or give their homes to; Search Snippet: ...November, 2014 Book Review SORTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms. By Richard R. W... |
2014 |
| John M. Powers |
Statistical Measures of Racially Identified School Systems |
102 Georgetown Law Journal 881 (March, 2014) |
C1-3Table of Contents L1-2Introduction . L3882 I. Racial Vote Dilution Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 886 a. constitutional challenges to the application of section 2 in vote dilution cases. 886 b. the standard under section 2 for assessing the presence of racial bloc voting. 888 II. Racial Bloc Voting in the 2008 and 2012; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Georgetown Law Journal March, 2014 Note STATISTICAL EVIDENCE OF RACIALLY POLARIZED VOTING IN THE OBAMA ELECTIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SECTION... |
2014 |
| Natsu Taylor Saito |
Tales of Diversity: Lawyers' Narratives of Racial Equity in Private Firms |
10 Florida A & M University Law Review 1 (Fall 2014) |
Introduction. 3 I. Dreams Deferred. 9 A. Liberatory Visions. 9 B. Persistent Disparities. 13 C. Retrenchment and Repression. 16 D. Racial Realism and Colonial Relations. 20 II. Colonial relations. 22 A. Colonialism: An Overview. 23 B. Settler Colonization. 25 C. Triangulation. 28 III. Recasting the Narrative. 30 A. Settler Origin Stories. 31 B. The; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Fall 2014 Article TALES OF COLOR AND COLONIALISM: RACIAL REALISM AND SETTLER COLONIAL THEORY Natsu Taylor Saito [FNa] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Kareem U. Crayton |
The Asylum Process in Ireland: a Reflection of Racist and Xenophobic Sentiments? |
89 Chicago-Kent Law Review 689 (2014) |
When one refers to the art of dissent as it is often practiced in the judicial process, the point of the enterprise is to frame an alternative position that counters or competes with the majority's controlling viewpoint. The dissenter on a multi-member court is the one who registers disagreement with a decision taken by his colleagues, offering an... |
2014 |
| Michael A. Olivas |
The Canary-blind Constitution: must Government Ignore Racial Inequality? |
40 Journal of College and University Law 381 (2014) |
Russell K. Nieli's Wounds that Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and our Continuing Racial Divide is published by Encounter Books and is described on the copyright page as an activity of Encounter for Culture and Education, Inc. The publishing company has recently released a series of conservative and libertarian books, including the following:; Search Snippet: ...WOUNDS THAT WILL NOT HEAL: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND OUR CONTINUING RACIAL DIVIDE & RANDALL KENNEDY'S FOR DISCRIMINATION: RACE, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AND THE... |
2014 |
| Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides , Alexandra Aylward , Pedro A. Noguera |
The Emmett till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act: the Cold Case of Racism in the Criminal Justice System |
15 Journal of Law in Society 241 (Winter, 2014) |
I. Objectives. 242 II. Context. 242 III. Disproportionality in Special Education. 244 IV. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Disproportionality. 247 V. Sociology of Special Education: Exploring the Theoretical Underpinnings of Disproportionality. 247 VI. Site Selection. 253 VII. Dataset Description. 257 VIII. Theoretical; Search Snippet: ...TO THE LIKELIHOOD OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS BEING LEGALLY CITED FOR RACIAL DISPROPORTIONALITY IN SPECIAL EDUCATION Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides [FN1] Alexandra Aylward... |
2014 |
| William E. Thro |
The Future of Racial Redistricting in Voting: Clark V. Calhoun County, Mississippi. |
40 Journal of College and University Law 359 (2014) |
Introduction. 360 I. Kennedy's Moral Argument For Racial Preferences. 362 II. Nieli's Social Science Argument for an End to Racial Preferences. 365 III. The Constitutional Reality--Limiting, but Not Ending, Racial Preferences. 370 A. Racial Preferences After Fisher. 370 1. The Institution Must Prove Its Use of Race Is Constitutional. 372 2. Race Is; Search Snippet: ...College and University Law 2014 Book Review THE FUTURE OF RACIAL PREFERENCES: A REVIEW OF RUSSELL K. NIELI'S WOUNDS THAT WILL NOT HEAL: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND OUR CONTINUING RACIAL DIVIDE & RANDALL KENNEDY'S FOR DISCRIMINATION: RACE, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, AND THE... |
2014 |
| Barry H. Dyller |
The Gendered Racial Formation: Foreign Men, "Our" Women, and the Law |
50-OCT Trial 61 (October, 2014) |
After Civil Rights is John Skrentny's brave attempt to reevaluate employment discrimination based on race or national origin under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This book does not instruct lawyers on how to bring or defend against antidiscrimination lawsuits. Instead, it suggests that Title VII is outdated and needs tweaks to align with; Search Snippet: ...Book THE GAP BETWEEN LAW AND REALITY AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS: RACIAL REALISM IN THE NEW AMERICAN WORKPLACE JOHN D. SKRENTNY PRINCETON... |
2014 |
| Christopher S. Elmendorf , Douglas M. Spencer |
The Georgia Death Penalty: a Need for Racial Justice |
102 California Law Review 1123 (October, 2014) |
The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) effectively enjoined the preclearance regime of the Voting Rights Act. The Court deemed the coverage formula, which determines the jurisdictions subject to preclearance, insufficiently grounded in current conditions. This Article proposes a new, legally defensible approach to coverage based on... |
2014 |
| Andrew P. Cohen |
The Many Lives of Louis Brandeis: Progressive-reformer. Supreme Court Justice. Avowed Zionist. And a Racist? |
19 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 285 (Spring, 2014) |
I. Introduction. 286 II. A Vicious Triangle: Defining Direct, Structural and Cultural Violence. 288 A. Direct Violence. 288 B. Structural Violence. 288 C. Cultural Violence. 289 D. Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence and the Loss of Identity. 289 III. Who Was James Scales?. 290 A. James Scales's Childhood. 290 B. James Scales's Navy Career; Search Snippet: ...SCALES: HOW THE FBI, THE DOJ, AND STATE AUTHORITIES WHITEWASHED RACIAL VIOLENCE IN BLEDSOE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Andrew P. Cohen [FNa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Andrew Martinez Whitson |
The Need for New Legislation and Liberalization of Current Laws to Combat Environmental Racism |
34 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 195 (Winter, 2014) |
Police misconduct is still prevalent throughout the United States. Unfortunately for members of minority communities, this misconduct often comes in the form of racially discriminatory police practices. In many cases, such practices are deeply rooted in the police department's culture. It is imperative that all citizens are equipped with; Search Snippet: ...Justice Winter, 2014 Note THE NEED FOR ADDITIONAL SAFEGUARDS AGAINST RACIST POLICE PRACTICES: A CALL FOR CHANGE TO MASSACHUSETTS & ILLINOIS WIRETAPPING... |
2014 |
| Emily Chiang |
The New Racial Preferences |
41 Florida State University Law Review 835 (Summer, 2014) |
Since handing downWashington v. Davis andArlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development, the United States Supreme Court has significantly curtailed the ability of plaintiffs to bring disparate impact claims under the Equal Protection Clause. Many academics continue to talk about the standards governing intent and disparate impact. Some; Search Snippet: ...Florida State University Law Review Summer, 2014 Article THE NEW RACIAL JUSTICE: MOVING BEYOND THE EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE TO ACHIEVE EQUAL... |
2014 |
| William Sanders |
The Racist Roots of Gun Control |
40 Ohio Northern University Law Review 607 (2014) |
This paper is unique in its analysis of federal circuit cases that have dealt with the issue of aggregation of minority groups with regard to dilution claims under section 2 of the federal Voting Rights Act (the Act). When first enacted, section 2 was successful in helping to eradicate racial discrimination concerning the right to vote. However,... |
2014 |
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Toxins Targeted at Minorities: the Racist Undertones of "Environmentally-friendly" Initiatives |
55 Natural Resources Journal 236 (Fall 2014) |
Most people today are familiar with the basic contours of the environmental justice argument: racial and ethnic minorities and the poor are subjected to greater environmental risks and harm than other population groups. In Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility, Dorceta E. Taylor offers a much deeper; Search Snippet: ...Natural Resources Journal Fall 2014 Book Reviews TOXIC COMMUNITIES: ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION, AND RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY BY DORCETA E. TAYLOR (NEW... |
2014 |
| Catherine E. Polta |
Trumping the Race Card: Permitting Criminal Defendants to Remain Anonymous and Absent from Trial to Eliminate Racial Jury Bias |
6 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 273 (Fall, 2014) |
Alaska Natives face well-documented impediments to criminal justice and village public safety. Federal, state, and non-governmental investigative committees consistently report systemic racial injustice. Recommendations universally support localization of governance, either by enabling existing tribal entities to self-help or by extending the; Search Snippet: ...SOCIAL AND MINOR CRIMES: THE ONLY FEASIBLE RESOLUTION FOR INSTITUTIONAL RACISM IN ALASKAN CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT Catherine E. Polta [FNa1] Copyright... |
2014 |
| Mae Kuykendall , Charles Adside, III |
Unsecured (Black) Bodies: How Baltimore Foreshadows the Dangers of Racially Targeted Dragnet Policing Let Loose by Utah V. Strieff |
22 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1011 (May, 2014) |
As typified by its recent decisions in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin and Shelby County v. Holder, the Supreme Court's jurisprudence concerning race has long imposed strict judicial oversight over any use of race for the formulation of public policy. This top-down approach has invited various undesirable outcomes, the most pernicious of; Search Snippet: ...THE VOLUME: FISHER, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION JURISPRUDENCE, AND THE LEGACY OF RACIAL SILENCE Mae Kuykendall [FNa1] Charles Adside, III [FNaa1] Copyright ©... |
2014 |
| Stephen Menendian |
What Does Diversity Mean in Seattle?: Parents Involved in Community Schools V. Seattle School District Number 1 Strikes down the Use of a Racial Tiebreaker |
24 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 81 (Fall 2014) |
The general rule against racial classifications forms a cornerstone of equal protection jurisprudence and constitutional law more broadly. In most cases decided by the Supreme Court involving this issue, the presence of a racial classification is presumed by the litigants and uncritically accepted by the Court. Recently, creative advocates seeking... |
2014 |
| Richard Rothstein |
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: the Importance of Information in the Battle Against Environmental Class and Racial Discrimination |
40-AUG Human Rights Rts. 8 (August, 2014) |
School failure by African-American youth remains an important impediment to narrowing social and economic inequality. Years of school reform efforts have done little to narrow the black-white achievement gap, especially for the most disadvantaged black students. Partly it's because low-income African Americans have individual characteristics that; Search Snippet: ...RIGHTS Human Rights August, 2014 WHAT HAVE WE--DE FACTO RACIAL ISOLATION OR DE JURE SEGREGATION? Richard Rothstein [FNa1] Copyright © 2014... |
2014 |
| Rasheena Latham |
Who Shall Rule and Govern? Local Legislative Delegations, Racial Politics, and the Voting Rights Act |
8 Southern Journal of Policy and Justice 80 (Spring 2014) |
There has always been some sort of system in place to maintain white supremacy in America. This control mechanism has not been more apparent than in the criminal justice system. A critical review of America's criminal justice system shows the overwhelming prejudicial treatment of people of color. This disparate treatment can be seen through the... |
2014 |
| Lauren Hartley |
Young Lawyers Section Drives Formation of Racial Justice Coalition |
119 Penn State Law Review 583 (Fall 2014) |
The Roma people have faced centuries of discrimination and prejudice in Europe. Recent expansions of the European visa-free travel zone triggered yet another form of discrimination against Roma individuals. After Roma began making false asylum claims in the European Union, officials pressured the source nations to stem the tide of false asylum... |
2014 |
| Kristina M. Campbell |
1. Application of Voting Rights Act to Municipal Annexation Changing City's Racial Composition |
3 Wake Forest Journal of Law and Policy 367 (June, 2013) |
On June 25, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its landmark decision in Arizona v. United States, striking down three of the four provisions of Arizona's notorious Senate Bill (S.B.) 1070 challenged by the United States Department of Justice as preempted by federal immigration law. Despite agreeing with the government that the; Search Snippet: ...of Law and Policy June, 2013 Article (UN) REASONABLE SUSPICION: RACIAL PROFILING IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT AFTER ARIZONA v. UNITED STATES Kristina... |
2013 |
| Gabriel J. Chin |
A Chinaman's Chance in Court: Asian Pacific Americans and Racial Rules of Evidence |
3 UC Irvine Law Review 965 (December, 2013) |
Introduction. 966 I. Asians as Untrustworthy Witnesses. 967 A. Competency and Credibility Under State Law. 967 1. Incompetency. 967 2. Credibility. 970 B. Chinese Witnesses Under Federal Law. 972 1. Incompetency. 973 a. Residence certificates. 973 b. Returning merchants. 974 c. Pharmacy workers in China. 975 2. Credibility. 975 II. The Statutory; Search Snippet: ...A CHINAMAN'S CHANCE [FNa1] IN COURT: ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS AND RACIAL RULES OF EVIDENCE Gabriel J. Chin [FNaa1] Copyright (c) 2013... |
2013 |
| Hilary Weddell |
A Model State Racial Justice Act: Fighting Racial Bias Without Killing the Death Penalty |
33 Boston College Journal of Law & Social Justice 453 (Spring, 2013) |
The jury system is intended to instill fairness and increase confidence in the American legal system as a whole. Despite this goal, widespread discrimination remains in jury selection procedures. In order to adequately protect both a defendant's right to be tried by a jury of his peers and every citizen's right to participate in the legal; Search Snippet: ...Justice Spring, 2013 Note A JURY OF WHOSE PEERS?: ELIMINATING RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN JURY SELECTION PROCEDURES Hilary Weddell [FNa1] Copyright © 2013... |
2013 |
| Starla J. Williams, J.d., Ll.m. |
A View of Racism |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 235 (Winter 2013) |
[E]ven if eradicating racism is an impossible goal, the fight for tolerance and equality carries an inherent value. Post-racial America is redefining diversity in the legal academy. Despite the views of many observers that the election of the first African-American President of the United States ushered the nation into an era of racial idealism,; Search Snippet: ...VALUES-BASED PEDAGOGY FOR THE LEGAL ACADEMY IN A POST- RACIAL ERA Starla J. Williams , J.d., Ll.m. [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013... |
2013 |
| Cara Davis |
A. Permitting Unsubstantiated Own-race Bias Arguments in Summation Invites Juror Confusion and Irrelevant Racial Considerations into Criminal Trials |
40 Southern University Law Review 367 (Spring, 2013) |
[I]n order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently. - Justice Blackmun Affirmative action was born on March 6, 1961. It was conceived by the pen of President John F. Kennedy within Executive Order 10925. This Order, which created the Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, mandated that government employers take; Search Snippet: ...PERCENT LAW IS THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL USE OF RACE AND A RACIAL QUOTA IN DISGUISE Cara Davis [FN1] Copyright © 2013 Southern University... |
2013 |
| Robin Steinberg , The Bronx Defenders, 360 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451, 718-838-7878, Fax 718-665-0100, E-mail: info@bronxdefenders.org |
Addressing Racial Profiling in the States: a Case Study of the "New Federalism" in Constitutional Criminal Procedure |
37-JUL Champion 51 (July, 2013) |
Racial disparity in the criminal justice system is a problem with which public defenders are intimately familiar. They see it every day in courthouses across the country where people of color from low income communities line the crowded hallways, fill the courtroom benches, and sit at the defense table in staggering and disproportionate numbers; Search Snippet: ...WL 5402044 CHAMPION Champion July, 2013 Feature Racial Disparity ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPARITY IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM THROUGH HOLISTIC DEFENSE Robin... |
2013 |
| Camille Gear Rich |
Affirmative Action Survives the Test: Racial and Ethnic Diversity a Benefit to Higher Education |
102 Georgetown Law Journal 179 (November, 2013) |
This Essay uses the current controversy over the racial self-identification decisions of former Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren as an occasion to explore incipient cultural and legal anxieties about employers' ability to define race under affirmative action programs. The Essay characterizes Warren's racial self-identification decisions as... |
2013 |
| Zachary L. Guyse |
Alien and Non-alien Alike: Citizenship, "Foreignness," and Racial Hierarchy in American Law |
65 Alabama Law Review 519 (2013) |
Introduction. 519 I. Playing Limbo: Alabama's Property Tax Structure. 521 II. The History of the 1901 Constitution & The Lid Bill. 524 A. The Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1901. 524 B. The Lid Bill. 527 III. The First Crusade: Knight v. Alabama. 529 A. Findings of Fact. 529 B. Conclusions of Law. 530 IV. The Second Crusade: Lynch v. Alabama; Search Snippet: ...Alabama Law Review 2013 Note ALABAMA'S ORIGINAL SIN: PROPERTY TAXES, RACISM, AND CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN ALABAMA Zachary L. Guyse Copyright ©... |
2013 |
| D. Wendy Greene |
All Peoples Have a Right to Self-determination: Henry J. Richardson Iii's Liberatory Perspective on Racial Justice |
4 California Law Review Circuit 179 (November, 2013) |
As the son of a white American mother and a Kenyan father, President Barack Obama's mixed-race parentage not only sparked a public fascination with his multiracial and multinational family tree but also, for average Americans, an increased interest in their own as well as others' multiracial lineages. In part, the allure of President Obama's and; Search Snippet: ...Review Circuit November, 2013 ALL IN THE FAMILY: INTERRACIAL INTIMACY, RACIAL FICTIONS, AND THE LAW D. Wendy Greene [FNa1] Copyright © 2013... |
2013 |
| Emerson Beishline |
An Exploration of the Efficacy of Class-based Approaches to Racial Justice: the Cuban Context |
4 William Mitchell Law Raza Journal J. 2 (Spring, 2013) |
While intimate partner violence (IPV) was once seen as an exclusively private family matter, it is increasingly being seen as an integral aspect of a larger system of social domination against women, the poor, people of color, sexual minorities, and immigrants. These groups often experience significantly higher rates of IPV than whites,... |
2013 |
| Barbara O'Brien , Catherine M. Grosso |
Beyond Identity and Racial Politics: Asian Americans and the Campaign Fund-raising Controversy |
46 U.C. Davis Law Review 1623 (June, 2013) |
Introduction. 1625 I. Race Bias, Racial Diversity, and Jury Selection. 1628 A. The Emergence of the Batson Regime. 1630 B. The Racial Justice Act: A Different Tact. 1633 II. Studying the First Seven Cases. 1635 A. Data and Methods. 1635 B. Results. 1637 1. Comparison of Strike Patterns. 1637 2. Comparison of Strike Patterns -- Cases Five Years Pre-; Search Snippet: ...American Law Schools BEYOND BATSON'S SCRUTINY: A PRELIMINARY LOOK AT RACIAL DISPARITIES IN PROSECUTORIAL PREEMPTORY STRIKES FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE NORTH CAROLINA RACIAL JUSTICE ACT Barbara O'Brien [FNa1] Catherine M. Grosso [FNaa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
| Patricia A. Broussard |
Blind Injustice: the Supreme Court, Implicit Racial Bias, and the Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System |
16 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 373 (Spring 2013) |
One hot summer's day in the late 1950s, a young mother put her three young children down for a nap. She also bathed and prepared four of her sister's children for naptime. This young woman had volunteered to care for her nephew and nieces while their mother, her younger sister, was in the hospital delivering her fifth child. A short while after; Search Snippet: ...TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY REMNANT OF SLAVERY, JIM CROW, AND SYSTEMIC RACISM--WHO WILL TELL HER STORIES? Patricia A. Broussard [FNa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
| Shana M. Scott, MPH |
Bringing Racial Justice to the Courtroom and Community: Race Matters for Juvenile Justice and the Charlotte Model |
22 Annals of Health Law Advance Directive 74 (Spring, 2013) |
Evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities have been documented in the American healthcare system for decades. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defined health disparities as preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health that are experienced by socially; Search Snippet: ...TITLE VI GAP: HOW CAN THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT ADDRESS RACIAL INEQUITY IN NURSING HOMES? Shana M. Scott MPH [FNa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
| Leland Ware |
Color Struck: Intragroup and Cross-Racial Color Discrimination |
13 Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal 75 (Fall-Winter, 2013) |
If you is white, You's alright, If you's brown, Stick around, But if you's black, oh, brother, Get back, get back, get back. Pop singer Michael Jackson's features changed and the color of his skin lightened dramatically during the final decades of his life. Jackson denied changing his skin color to improve his appearance and claimed that he; Search Snippet: ...Journal Fall-Winter, 2013 Article COLOR STRUCK: INTRAGROUP AND CROSS- RACIAL COLOR DISCRIMINATION Leland Ware [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2013 Connecticut Public... |
2013 |
| Caitlin Naidoff |
Confronting the Invisible Witness: the Use of Narrative to Neutralize Capital Jurors' Implicit Racial Biases |
19 Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 169 (Fall 2013) |
Texas should enact a Racial Justice Act. The Supreme Court has acknowledged the constitutional framework's inability to adequately address racial discrimination in the application of the death penalty. Instead, the Court encouraged legislatures to respond to this racial injustice. North Carolina responded with the North Carolina Racial Justice Act; Search Snippet: ...OF TOO MUCH JUSTICE: [FN1] THE NEED FOR A TEXAS RACIAL JUSTICE ACT Caitlin Naidoff [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2014 Texas Journal... |
2013 |
| Cedric Merlin Powell |
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court. By Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. 272 Pp. $24.00 Hardcover |
52 University of Louisville Law Review 105 (2013) |
The doctrinal linchpin of the Roberts Court's post-racial constitutionalism is neutrality. This commentary advances a critique of neutrality in three jurisprudential contexts: school desegregation-integration cases, the First Amendment and the marketplace of ideas, and affirmative action by theorizing that neutrality promotes inequality. This; Search Snippet: ...SCHOOLS, THE FIRST AMENDMENT, AND AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN A POST- RACIAL WORLD Cedric Merlin Powell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 University of... |
2013 |
| Anietie Maureen-Ann Akpan |
Darkness Made Visible: Law, Metaphor, and the Racial Self |
11 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 1123 (Spring, 2013) |
It is dangerous to be an American Negro male. America has never wanted its Negroes to be men, and does not, generally, treat them as men. It treats them as mascots, pets, or things. - James Baldwin 1943. Rural Alabama. The rays of the sun stream down mercilessly hot on your back, and perspiration darkens your shirt. It had been another long day of; Search Snippet: ...MEDICINE: HOW THE NATIONAL RESEARCH ACT HAS FAILED TO ADDRESS RACIST PRACTICES IN BIOMEDICAL EXPERIMENTS TARGETING THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN [FN1] COMMUNITY... |
2013 |
| Vinay Harpalani |
Destabilizing Racial Classification Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law. By Alex M. Johnson, Jr. 84 California Law Review 887-952, July 1996. (Order From: University of California Press, 2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley, California 94720.) |
69 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 77 (2013) |
This Article analyzes the racial ambiguity of South Asian Americans--peoples whose ancestry derives from the Indian subcontinent--and has two major aims. First, it provides a comprehensive account of the racialization of South Asian Americans (Desi) a group that legal scholars have not considered at any length in the rubric of American racial... |
2013 |
| Daniel J. Losen |
Discounting the Error Costs |
51 Family Court Review 388 (July, 2013) |
Research has found that, in 2006, over 28 per cent of Black male middle school students had been suspended at least once, nearly three times the rate for White males. Other research has revealed racial disparities in discipline, including disproportionately high numbers of Black students being removed from class on discretionary discipline grounds,; Search Snippet: ...Out of Court Special Issue Article DISCIPLINE POLICIES, SUCCESSFUL SCHOOLS, RACIAL JUSTICE, AND THE LAW [FNa1] Daniel J. Losen [FNa2] Copyright... |
2013 |
| Kim Forde-Mazrui |
Does the Lsat Mirror or Magnify Racial and Ethnic Differences in Educational Attainment?: a Study of Equally Achieving "Elite" College Students |
17 Lewis & Clark Law Review 987 (2013) |
In Fisher v. University of Texas, the Supreme Court declined to revisit the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies in higher education. The Court instead remanded the case to the lower court to re-evaluate whether the University's use of race as an admissions factor is necessary to achieve the benefits of student-body diversity. The; Search Snippet: ...Race & Civil Rights 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr., Lecture DOES RACIAL DIVERSITY PROMOTE CULTURAL DIVERSITY?: THE MISSING QUESTION IN FISHER V... |
2013 |
| Deborah Peterson Small , Break the Chains, 918 Parker Street, Suite A-21, Berkeley, CA 94710, 510-280-3774, E-mail: deborah@breakchains.org |
Eliminating Racism and the Diversity Gap in the Video Game Industry |
37-JUL Champion 55 (July, 2013) |
On March 30, 1908, Green Cottenham was arrested by the Shelby County, Ala., sheriff and charged with vagrancy. After three days in the county jail, the 22-year-old African American was sentenced to an unspecified term of hard labor. The next day, he was handed over to a unit of U.S. Steel Corporation and put to work with hundreds of other convicts; Search Snippet: ...WL 5402046 CHAMPION Champion July, 2013 Feature Racial Disparity ELIMINATING RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Deborah Peterson Small [FNa1... |
2013 |
| Christopher Cerullo |
Evidence of Racial Discrimination in the Use of the Death Penalty: a Story from Southwest Arkansas (1990-2005) with Special Reference to the Case of Death Row Inmate Frank Williams, Jr. |
82 Fordham Law Review 127 (October, 2013) |
Since its enactment as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII's main purpose has been to end all forms of employment discrimination. Through a flexible judicial interpretation of Title VII that reached newly discovered forms of discrimination, and through occasional intervention by Congress to update the statute, Title VII has been largely; Search Snippet: ...Fordham Law Review October, 2013 Note EVERYONE'S A LITTLE BIT RACIST? RECONCILING IMPLICIT BIAS AND TITLE VII Christopher Cerullo [FNa1] Copyright... |
2013 |
| Abbey L. Thompson |
Evolution of the Racial Identity of Children of Loving: Has Our Thinking about Race and Racial Issues Become Obsolete? |
37 American Journal of Trial Advocacy 225 (Summer, 2013) |
Federal Rule of Evidence 606(b) faces potential constitutional hurdles when, after the verdict has been rendered, a juror attempts to provide evidence or testify about racial prejudices during jury deliberations. Rule 606(b) provides, [d]uring an inquiry into the validity of a verdict or indictment, a juror may not testify about any statement made; Search Snippet: ...CONSTITUTIONAL WHEN IT IS APPLIED TO BAR TESTIMONY ABOUT JURY RACIAL BIAS?--UNITED STATES v. SHALHOUT, 507 F. APP'X 201 (3D... |
2013 |
| Tom I. Romero, II |
Foreword: Sixty Years after the Internment: Civil Rights, Identity Politics, and Racial Profiling |
90 Denver University Law Review 1023 (2013) |
This Essay serves as the foreword to the Denver University Law Review 2013 Symposium: Forty Years Since Keyes v. School District No. 1: Equality of Educational Opportunity and the Legal Construction of Metropolitan America. Through the lens of Professor Romero's experiences being born, raised, bused, and ultimately returning home to work and raise... |
2013 |
| Cynthia E. Jones |
Give Us Free: Addressing Racial Disparities in Bail Determinations |
16 NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy 919 (2013) |
This article considers racial disparities that occur nationally in the bail determination process, due in large part to the lack of uniformity, resources, and information provided to officials in bail proceedings. It argues that the almost unbridled decision making power afforded to bail officials is often influenced by improper considerations such... |
2013 |
| Thomas W. Mitchell |
Growing up a Suspect: an Examination of Racial Profiling of Black Children and Effective Strategies to Reduce Racial Disparities in Arrests |
56 Howard Law Journal 849 (Spring 2013) |
INTRODUCTION. 850 I. OVERALL TRENDS IN INCOME AND WEALTH INEQUALITIES. 852 A. Trends in Income Inequality. 853 B. Trends in Wealth Inequality. 856 C. Racial Income and Wealth Gaps. 857 1. Racial Income Gaps. 857 2. Racial Wealth Gaps. 857 II. AS INEQUALITY HAS RISEN, ECONOMIC MOBILITY HAS DECLINED. 861 A. Trends in Economic Mobility in the United; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Howard Law Journal Spring 2013 Article GROWING INEQUALITY AND RACIAL ECONOMIC GAPS Thomas W. Mitchell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Howard... |
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