| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Anna Cowan |
Unequal Protection and the Racial Privacy Initiative |
22 Pacific Rim Law & Policy Journal 247 (March, 2013) |
The adoption of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) by the General Assembly in 2007 was a landmark achievement in the development of indigenous rights under international law, particularly through its unequivocal recognition of indigenous peoples' right to self-determination. That same year,; Search Snippet: ...Article UNDRIP AND THE INTERVENTION: INDIGENOUS SELF-DETERMINATION, PARTICIPATION, AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA Anna Cowan [FNd1... |
2013 |
| Mark P. Fancher |
Ward V. Rock Against Racism: How Time, Place and Manner Further Restrict the Public Forum |
15 Journal of Law in Society Society 1 (Fall, 2013) |
C1-2Table of Contents I. Origins and Development of Racial Profiling. 1 II. The Legal Framework for FBI Investigations. 3 III. Guidelines for the Use of Race in FBI Investigations. 4 IV. The ACLU's Freedom of Information Act Request. 5 V. The ACLU Sues for Access to Records. 8 VI. The FBI's Credibility Deficit and the Need for Transparency. 10 VII; Search Snippet: ...Society Fall, 2013 Is Detroit Different? WANTED: FBI TRANSPARENCY ABOUT RACIAL PROFILING IN ARAB AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES Mark P. Fancher [FN1... |
2013 |
| Jennifer Lisa Vest, PhD |
What Exactly Is Racial Diversity? |
12 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 471 (Fall/Winter, 2013) |
The University killed me. Don't let them do this to you. - Professor Barbara Christian I was sitting on the curb, surrounded by cops, with my feet in the street when the ambulances arrived. The small Latina paramedic crouched down to take my pulse and blood pressure. She looked alarmed and signaled for the gurney. I can walk, I offered,... |
2013 |
| Lisa Herndon |
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States? Law and the Racial Divide in the American Working Class, 1676-1964 |
31 Wisconsin International Law Journal 322 (Summer 2013) |
Introduction. 323 I. Black Rights at Home and Abroad: A Historical Timeline. 326 A. Slavery. 326 B. Post-1865: Black Freedom and Domestic Responses. 327 C. Post-World War I and Onward: International Human Rights for Blacks. 328 D. 1950s and 1960s: Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. 330 E. Post-1960. 331 F. Race Relations Today: Post-Racialism; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Wisconsin International Law Journal Summer 2013 Comment WHY IS RACIAL INJUSTICE STILL PERMITTED IN THE UNITED STATES?: AN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN... |
2013 |
| Michael J. Klarman |
With a Lack of Policy and Staff Training, Employers Could Face Liability for a Nonemployee's Racial Bias |
127 Harvard Law Review 127 (November, 2013) |
In his second inaugural address in January 2013, President Barack Obama associated the struggle for gay equality with that for racial equality by conjoining, alliteratively, Stonewall with Selma (along with Seneca Falls). The President went on to proclaim that [o]ur journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone; Search Snippet: ...Court 2012 Term Comments WINDSOR AND BROWN: MARRIAGE EQUALITY AND RACIAL EQUALITY Michael J. Klarman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2013 Harvard Law... |
2013 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
A Change must Come: All Racial Barriers Precluding Minority Representation in Managerial Positions on Professional Sports Teams must Be Eliminated |
2 UC Irvine Law Review 313 (February, 2012) |
Introduction. 314 I. The Tumultuous Immigration Debate of the Twenty-First Century. 317 A. Meltdown in the Desert: Arizona's S.B. 1070. 320 1. S.B. 1070: One State's Effort to Bolster Immigration Enforcement. 326 2. One Color-Blind Defense: S.B. 1070 Bans Racial Profiling. 331 3. Another Color-Blind Defense: S.B. 1070 Simply Mirrors Federal Law; Search Snippet: ...Immigration Law Article A CASE STUDY OF COLOR-BLINDNESS: THE RACIALLY DISPARATE IMPACTS OF ARIZONA'S S.B. 1070 AND THE FAILURE OF... |
2012 |
| Nicole M. Oelrich |
A New Approach to Voir Dire on Racial Bias |
57 South Dakota Law Review Rev. 9 (2012) |
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) represented a gallant effort by Congress to decrease discrimination against students with physical and developmental disabilities and to create an inclusionary school environment for all students. To facilitate IDEA's purposes, Congress created two unique mandates. First, the free and... |
2012 |
| Alyssa Thurston |
Addressing the Thornier Complexities of Racial Discrimination Complaints in the Workplace |
104 Law Library Journal 359 (Summer, 2012) |
The United States has been steadily growing more racially and ethnically diverse, especially over the past several decades. Yet, as a profession, law librarianship has been slow to reflect the country's increased diversity. Taking the most recent U.S. Census statistics into account, this article evaluates the implications that a progressively... |
2012 |
| Anna C. Erwin |
Arizona Senate Bill 1070: State Sanctioned Racial Profiling? |
11 Washington University Global Studies Law Review 193 (2012) |
On December 21, 1965, in the midst of apartheid and extreme racial tensions throughout the world, the General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) signed and ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). CERD seeks to prohibit and to eliminate racial discrimination in all its forms and to guarantee the; Search Snippet: ...AND THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION: HAS THE UNITED STATES COMPLIED WITH ITS TREATY OBLIGATIONS... |
2012 |
| Bahrad A. Sokhansanj |
Beyond Racial and Ethnic Analyses in Clinical Research: a Proposed Model for Institutional Review Boards |
2 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 279 (2012) |
At the very end of the last century, scientists produced the first draft of the whole human genetic sequence. But that was just the first step; the hard work of the first few decades of this century will be to learn more about how to apply genetic information to improve health. As the pace of technological development accelerates and we learn more; Search Snippet: ...GENETIC PRIVACY: UNDERSTANDING GENETIC DISCRIMINATION THROUGH ITS DISPARATE IMPACT ON RACIAL MINORITIES Bahrad A. Sokhansanj [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Columbia Journal of... |
2012 |
| Neil Gotanda |
Beyond the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Confronting Structural Racism in the Workplace |
1 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 273 (July, 2012) |
In recent years, the Supreme Court has narrowed its examination of racial subordinations to focus upon three doctrinal approaches: disparate treatment racial discrimination, the intent theory of racial discrimination, and suspect category strict scrutiny. Taken together, these three doctrines mutually reinforce racial discrimination as the only; Search Snippet: ...2012 Essay BEYOND SUPREME COURT ANTI-DISCRIMINATION: AN ESSAY ON RACIAL SUBORDINATIONS, RACIAL PLEASURES AND COMMODIFIED RACE Neil Gotanda [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Columbia... |
2012 |
| Ruqaiijah Yearby |
Breaking the Cycle: Countering Voter Initiatives and the Underrepresentation of Racial Minorities in the Political Process |
44 Connecticut Law Review 1281 (April, 2012) |
Since the Civil War access to health care in the United States has been racially unequal. This racially unequal access to health care remains even after the passage of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and the election of an African-American President. Both of these events held the promise of equality, yet the promise has never; Search Snippet: ...WITH HEALTH CARE REFORM: ACKNOWLEDGING AND ADDRESSING THE CONTINUATION OF RACIAL BIAS Ruqaiijah Yearby [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012 the Connecticut Law... |
2012 |
| Peter Halewood |
City Settles Racial Profiling Suit |
1 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 313 (July, 2012) |
Despite persistent racial and economic inequality, many believe the United States is becoming a post-racial and classless society where race and class analysis are anachronisms. This Essay will contest that claim by way of a critical reading of citizenship as reflected in American law and culture and demonstrate the continuing relevance of race; Search Snippet: ...of Race and Law July, 2012 Essay CITIZENSHIP AS ACCUMULATED RACIAL CAPITAL Peter Halewood [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Columbia Journal of Race... |
2012 |
| Ernesto Hernández-López |
Codification or Castration? The Applicability of the International Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination to the U.s. Criminal Justice System |
22 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 203 (2012) |
The papers in this cluster illuminate how the traditional narratives on global or national economic crises often silence or overlook issues of racial exclusion, in relation to those events. While national and global economies struggle with falling currencies, institutional breakdown, unemployment, contagion and their consequential newsworthy... |
2012 |
| Cynthia Hawkins DeBose |
Colonial White Mater Privilege: an Above-ground Railroad to Freedom and Land Reclamation |
55 Howard Law Journal 455 (Winter 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 457 I. Anti-Miscegenation Statutes. 459 II. Thesis--Colonial White Mater Privilege. 463 III. Colonial Maryland: A Mixing of the Races. 464 IV. The Tayles of the Whyte Matriarchs. 467 A. The Shorter Family. 467 B. The Hawkins Family. 468 V. Petitions for Freedom & Land Reclamation Cases: Testing the Theory in Maryland. 469 A. William &; Search Snippet: ...The author shall utilize the terms Black and White as racial categorizations where appropriate. However, internal references within quotations will maintain... |
2012 |
| Cynthia Jones |
Confronting Racial Bias |
27-SUM Criminal Justice 12 (Summer, 2012) |
The criminal justice system in the United States is not post-racial. Across the country, African Americans, Latinos, and other minorities are overrepresented at each stage in the adjudication process. It is not uncommon for some to dismiss these disparities with oversimplified explanations, such as Minorities just commit a disproportionate amount; Search Snippet: ...Feature CONFRONTING RACE IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM The ABA's Racial Justice Improvement Project Cynthia Jones [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 by American... |
2012 |
| Pamela A. Wilkins |
Considering Tortious Racism |
115 West Virginia Law Review 305 (Fall 2012) |
How can capital defense lawyers craft narratives that neutralize jurors' unconscious racial and ethnic biases? A well-developed body of research in cognitive psychology indicates that despite even the best of intentions and the absence of conscious prejudice, most Americans harbor unconscious biases against African Americans. These biases influence; Search Snippet: ...WITNESS: THE USE OF NARRATIVE TO NEUTRALIZE CAPITAL JURORS' IMPLICIT RACIAL BIASES Pamela A. Wilkins [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012 the West... |
2012 |
| Scott Phillips |
Continued Uncertainty as to the Constitutionality of Remedial Racial Classifications: Identifying the Pieces of the Puzzle |
50 Houston Law Review 131 (Fall 2012) |
Given the substantial amount of research that has been conducted throughout the United States regarding the relationship between race and capital punishment, one might assume that much of the attention has been focused on Harris County, Texas. After all, Harris County--home to Houston and surrounding areas--is the capital of capital punishment; Search Snippet: ...HOUSTON LAW REVIEW Houston Law Review Fall 2012 Article CONTINUED RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE CAPITAL OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: THE ROSENTHAL ERA... |
2012 |
| Mark Lawrence McPhail , Rachel Lyon , David Harris |
Direct Democracy, Racial Group Agency, Local Government Law, and Residential Racial Segregation: Some Reflections on Radical and Plural Democracy |
39 Northern Kentucky Law Review 137 (2012) |
The recent decision by the Georgia State Board of Pardons to execute Troy Anthony Davis for the murder of police officer Mark McPhail raises a number of legal, social, and media issues that coalesce around questions of racial justice and reconciliation. The legal issues raised by the decision range from the unequal application of the death penalty... |
2012 |
| Zanita E. Fenton |
Disaster in Durban: the United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance |
31 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 77 (Winter, 2012) |
Because of institutionalized racism, combined with institutionalized ableism, extreme numbers of Black boys receive inadequate education. Black children, especially boys, are disciplined, suspended, and expelled when it is least likely that their parents will challenge the outcome; this most often is the case when their parents are in poverty. When; Search Snippet: ...of Theory and Practice Winter, 2012 December, 2012 Article DISABLING RACIAL REPETITION Zanita E. Fenton [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2012 Law and... |
2012 |
| Sean Childers |
Discrimination, Death and Denial: the Tolerance of Racial Discrimination in Infliction of the Death Penalty |
87 New York University Law Review 1025 (October, 2012) |
The last decade has seen a noted increase in the amount of traffic-stop data available for researchers hoping to analyze racial profiling on America's highways. A group of economic scholars--Knowles, Todd, and Persico--proposed a bright-line statistical test that asks whether different racial groups have the same hit rate, or to put it differently,... |
2012 |
| Vinay Harpalani |
Diversity, Democracy and White Racial Identity: Schuette V. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action |
15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 463 (November, 2012) |
This Article offers a novel doctrinal resolution of the key issues in Fisher v. Texas, the impending Supreme Court case which involves race-conscious admissions policies at the University of Texas at Austin (UT). The resolution proposed here addresses Justice Anthony Kennedy's concerns about race-conscious policies, but also preserves most of the... |
2012 |
| Devin D. Collier |
Doubling down on Racial Discrimination: the Racially Disparate Impacts of Crime-based Removals |
9 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 33 (Winter 2012) |
Does the way I wear my hair make me a better person? Does the way I wear my hair make me a better friend? Does the way I wear my hair determine my integrity? I am expressing my creativity . . . If I wanna shave it close Or if I wanna rock locks . . . If I wanna wear it braided All down my back I don't see what's wrong with that . . . The above; Search Snippet: ...Note DON'T GET IT TWISTED: WHY EMPLOYER HAIRSTYLE PROHIBITIONS ARE RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY Devin D. Collier [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012 University of... |
2012 |
| Jim Bailey |
Europe's Consultative Commission on Racism and Xenophobia and the Slow Progress Towards a European AntiRacism Observatory |
19 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 73 (Fall, 2012) |
I. Introduction. 74 II. The Evolution of the Public Use Clause. 77 A. The Early Cases. 78 B. Berman v. Parker. 80 C. Hawaii Housing Authority v. Midkiff. 83 D. Kelo v. City of New London. 85 III. Eminent Domain and its Impact on Ethnic and Racial Minorities, the Indigent, and the Elderly. 87 A. Poletown Neighborhood Council v. City of Detroit. 87; Search Snippet: ...Rights and Social Justice Fall, 2012 Student Note ETHNIC AND RACIAL MINORITIES, THE INDIGENT, THE ELDERLY, AND EMINENT DOMAIN: ASSESSING THE... |
2012 |
| Maria Greco Danaher |
Federal Courts -- Standing -- Third Circuit Denies Standing to Bring Claim of Racial Discrimination in Zoning. -- Taliaferro V. Darby Township Zoning Board, 458 F.3d 181 (3d Cir. 2006). |
14 Lawyers Journal J. 9 (September 21, 2012) |
One of the issues most frequently litigated in employment cases is whether the remarks and actions of an employer rise to the level of the hostile work environment needed to support a claim of discrimination. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently addressed this issue and provided some clarity to the definition. The court added its voice; Search Snippet: ...Journal September 21, 2012 FEDERAL APPELLATE COURT OUTLINES PARAMETERS FOR RACIALLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT Maria Greco Danaher Copyright © 2012 by Allegheny County... |
2012 |
| Daniel Keating |
From Arizona's S.b. 1070 to Georgia's H.b. 87 and Alabama's H.b. 56: Exacerbating the Other and Generating New Discourses and Practices of Segregation |
20 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 701 (Winter 2012) |
A little over twenty years ago, in his introduction to a Harvard Law Review article that was destined to become a classic in civil rights scholarship, Professor Ian Ayres wrote the following: The civil rights laws of the 1960s prohibit race and gender discrimination in the handful of markets--employment, housing, and public accommodations--in which; Search Snippet: ...Is There a Relation? FROM FAIR DRIVING TO FAIR DISCHARGING: RACIALLY DISPARATE OUTCOMES IN COMMON CONSUMER TRANSACTIONS Daniel Keating [FNa1] Copyright... |
2012 |
| William Arrocha |
From Coca-cola to Ebola, Racial Riots to Civil Rights, Epic Ashes to Olympic Torch--the Transformation of Emory, Atlanta, and the South |
48 California Western Law Review 245 (Spring 2012) |
Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In 2006, Laine Lawless, one of the founding members of the Minuteman movement, encouraged the leadership of the Neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement (NSM) to launch a campaign of violence against illegal aliens (i.e., Hispanics); Search Snippet: ...this Article refers to segregation as a new form of racial separation caused by laws promoted by state legislation that aims... |
2012 |
| Cedric Merlin Powell |
From Papal Bull to Racial Rule: Indians of the Americas, Race, and the Foundations of International Law |
40 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 153 (2012) |
Introduction. 153 I. Rhetorical Neutrality, The Process Theory, and The Formalization of Brown. 160 A. Parents Involved, Inversion, and Neutrality. 168 B. The Emergence of Choice . 170 II. The Political Community. 171 III. Liberal Individualism and the Conceptual Fallacy of Neighborhood schools. 174 A. Kentucky Revised Statute § 159.070 and; Search Snippet: ...FROM LOUISVILLE TO LIDDELL: SCHOOLS, RHETORICAL NEUTRALITY, AND THE POST- RACIAL EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE Cedric Merlin Powell [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012... |
2012 |
| Kim Benita Vera |
From Pretoria to Philadelphia: Judge Higginbotham's Racial Justice Jurisprudence on South Africa and the United States |
42 California Western International Law Journal 453 (Spring 2012) |
The discovery and conquest of the New World marked the inauguration of international law, and constituted a watershed moment in the emergence of race in European thought. What might the coterminous rise of formative moments in race thinking and international law suggest? In my provisional reflections on this question that follow, I trace; Search Snippet: ...Indigenous Populations and Injustice's Global Borders FROM PAPAL BULL TO RACIAL RULE: INDIANS OF THE AMERICAS, RACE, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF... |
2012 |
| Cara Sandberg |
Girl Talk--examining Racial and Gender Lines in Juvenile Justice |
2012 Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal 449 (2012) |
In 2007, the United States Supreme Court decided Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District, a case that considered the constitutionality of school assignment policies that voluntarily considered the race of students. The Court held that voluntary race-conscious school assignments in school districts like Seattle, which were; Search Snippet: ...and Law Journal 2012 Student Note GETTING PARENTS INVOLVED IN RACIALLY INTEGRATED SCHOOLS Cara Sandberg [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012 Brigham Young... |
2012 |
| Thomas C. Kost |
Hopwood V. Texas: Racial Preferences in Higher Education Upheld and Endorsed |
106 Northwestern University Law Review 1379 (Summer 2012) |
In a small but significant portion of urban public housing, the dual legacies of segregation and concentrated poverty have long plagued residents. Over the course of decades, these legacies have contributed to chronic systemic failures, the burden of which has disproportionately fallen on members of minority groups. The federal government; Search Snippet: ...Summer 2012 Notes and Comments HOPE AFTER HOPE VI? REAFFIRMING RACIAL INTEGRATION AS A PRIMARY GOAL IN HOUSING POLICY PRESCRIPTIONS Thomas... |
2012 |
| Michael Callahan |
If Justice Is Not Equal for All, it Is Not Justice: Racial Bias, Prosecutorial Misconduct, and the Right to a Fair Trial in State V. Monday |
35 Seattle University Law Review 827 (Spring, 2012) |
If prosecutors are permitted to convict guilty defendants by improper, unfair means then we are but a moment away from the time when prosecutors will convict innocent defendants by unfair means. Prosecutors have a duty to provide defendants with fair trials. Part of this duty is that prosecutors may not make racist arguments or appeal to racial; Search Snippet: ...JUSTICE IS NOT EQUAL FOR ALL, IT IS NOT JUSTICE: RACIAL BIAS, PROSECUTORIAL MISCONDUCT, AND THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL... |
2012 |
| Gregory S. Parks |
Judging the Judges: Racial Diversity, Impartiality and Representation on State Trial Courts |
2012 Cardozo Law Review de novo 238 (2012) |
The article addresses the fairly recent incident where the Chief U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Montana forwarded a racist e-mail about President Obama that was picked up by the media. When questioned about it, he indicated that though he knew the e-mail to be racist, he was not a racist. The article investigates the accuracy of his; Search Snippet: ...DE NOVO Cardozo Law Review de novo 2012 Article JUDGING RACISM Gregory S. Parks [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 Yeshiva University; Gregory S... |
2012 |
| Neil Diskin |
Jury Discrimination: the Peremptory Challenge as a Racially Discriminatory Device |
4 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 175 (Fall, 2012) |
The Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments. In capital punishment cases, the Supreme Court has interpreted the Eighth Amendment to require that jury discretion be directed to minimize the risk of arbitrary application of the death penalty, and that sentencing be individualized by taking into account mitigating... |
2012 |
| Jesse Kropf |
Keeping Race in Place: Racial Microaggressions and Campus Racial Climate at the University of California, Berkeley |
4 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 75 (Spring, 2012) |
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with the language we use to justify it. --Michele Alexander What does a person living in public housing look like? Most people in public housing make less than ten thousand dollars a year. Over half are on a fixed income, such as social... |
2012 |
| Robert S. Chang |
Keynote Address: "Fairness or Bias?: a Symposium on Racial and Ethnic Composition and Attitudes in the Judiciary" |
45 U.C. Davis Law Review 1913 (June, 2012) |
Keith Aoki began talking with me about racial microclimes in 1997 when we were working on the first of three articles we would write together. He said: Bob, I've been thinking about this thing called a racial microclime. You know how a microclimate describes geographic pockets that have a climate that is different from the surrounding area? I; Search Snippet: ...A Tribute to Keith Aoki Essay KEITH AOKI'S THEORY OF RACIAL MICROCLIMES Robert S. Chang [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012 Regents of... |
2012 |
| Camilo M. Ortiz |
Law and Racial Geography: Public Housing and the Economy in New Orleans |
13 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 29 (2012) |
In May 2010, two weeks after the Arizona state legislature passed Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070), Juan Varela was fatally shot in the neck by his next door neighbor, Gary Kelley. Prior to the killing, Kelley had repeatedly said to Varela, Hurry up and go back to Mexico, or you're gonna die[!] It is uncertain what specific events led Kelley to shoot; Search Snippet: ...Law Review 2012 Article LATINOS NOWHERE IN SIGHT: ERASED BY RACISM, NATIVISM, THE BLACK-WHITE BINARY, AND AUTHORITARIANISM Camilo M. Ortiz... |
2012 |
| Katrina Homel |
Law Enforcement by Stereotypes and Serendipity: Racial Profiling and Stops and Searches Without Cause |
4 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 51 (Spring, 2012) |
Israel's Ethiopian Jews are disproportionately among Israel's very poorest citizens. In fact, since their arrival in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, Ethiopian Jews, who alternatively call themselves Beta Israel (meaning House of Israel), have faced conditions of extreme poverty. Currently, nearly 52% of Ethiopian Israeli families are indigent,; Search Snippet: ...JEWS AS OTHER: LOCATING ALTERNATIVE DISCOURSES OF JUDAISM IN ISRAEL'S RACIAL-ETHNIC HIERARCHY Katrina Homel [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 by Katrina Homel... |
2012 |
| Robert T. Carter, Ph.D. , Thomas D. Scheuermann, M.A., J.D. |
Legal Claims Against Germany. Compensation for Losses Resulting from Anti-Racial Measures. By Siegfried Goldschmidt. New York: the Dryden Press, 1945. Pp. Viii, 213. $3.00 |
12 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 1 (Spring 2012) |
With the celebrated election of the first African-American President, the United States has come a long way from the ugly days of Jim Crow, but there is a paucity of evidence that we are living in anything approaching a post-racial America. While overt bigotry may have receded in recent decades, rumors of its demise as an ongoing social problem... |
2012 |
| Stephen B. Thomas , Craig S. Fryer, Mary A. Garza, James Butler, III , Erica T. Casper , Sandra C. Quinn |
Less Talk, More Action: How Law Schools Can Counteract Racial Bias of Lsat Scores in the Admissions Process |
55 Howard Law Journal 705 (Spring 2012) |
INTRODUCTION. 706 I. FROM NEGRO HEALTH IMPROVEMENT TO HEALTH EQUITY: AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. 706 II. FIRST GENERATION DISPARITIES RESEARCH: THE EVIDENCE. 709 III. SECOND GENERATION DISPARITIES RESEARCH: THE REASONS WHY. 711 IV. THIRD GENERATION DISPARITIES RESEARCH: PROVIDING SOLUTIONS. 716 A. Healthy People 2020. 716 B. The Affordable Care Act; Search Snippet: ...Article LESS TALK MORE ACTION: ACCELERATING INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO ELIMINATE RACIAL AND ETHNIC HEALTH DISPARITIES Stephen B. Thomas [FNa1] Craig S... |
2012 |
| Krista L. Nelson , Jacob J. Stender |
Like Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: Combating Racial Bias in Washington State's Criminal Justice System |
35 Seattle University Law Review 849 (Spring, 2012) |
Racial bias in the United States' criminal justice system is a serious problem, and Washington State is no exception. The groundbreaking Preliminary Report on Race and Washington's Criminal Justice System (Task Force Report) revealed striking evidence of racial and ethnic bias at various stages of criminal proceedings and highlighted the need for; Search Snippet: ...Review Spring, 2012 II LIKE WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING: COMBATING RACIAL BIAS IN WASHINGTON STATE'S CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM Krista L. Nelson... |
2012 |
| Charles Lawrence III |
Literacy and Racial Justice: the Politics of Learning after Brown V. Board of Education by Catherine Prendergast. 2003. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. 205 Pages. 0-8093-2525-x (Paperback) |
46 Law and Society Review 247 (June, 2012) |
I will tell you something about stories, . they are all we have . to fight off illness and death. --Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony The editors of the Law & Society Review bestow a great honor in asking me to reflect on Professor Laura Gómez's presidential address. They also provide an occasion for significant feelings of pride. I taught Professor; Search Snippet: ...LISTENING FOR STORIES IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES: NARRATIVE AND RACIAL FORMATION THEORY Charles Lawrence III [FNa1] Copyright © 2012 by Law... |
2012 |
| Eli Wald , Carrie Golden, Erin Snow, Nicole Van Hook, Heidi Haberman, Elena Vigil, Tamara Henry, Jillian Kysor, Tseada Berhanu, Maureen Weiland |
Looking Suspicious |
48 Tulsa Law Review 27 (Summer 2012) |
This article explores the interplay between gender identity and racial, cultural, and ethnic identity as well as socioeconomic background, intellectual self-esteem, and familial support systems to investigate the experience of women law students in legal education. Consisting of nine narratives by female law students of varying identities and... |
2012 |
| Anders Walker, Saint Louis University School of Law |
Mark Dewolfe Howe and the Fight for Racial Equality |
30 Law and History Review 286 (February, 2012) |
Rarely does a book cast a well-known, heavily trafficked subject area such as civil rights in an entirely new light. However, Mark Brilliant's The Color of America Has Changed: How Racial Diversity Shaped Civil Rights Reform in California accomplishes precisely that. In writing a history of rights reform in California, Brilliant uncovers a; Search Snippet: ...Review MARK BRILLIANT, THE COLOR OF AMERICA HAS CHANGED: HOW RACIAL DIVERSITY SHAPED CIVIL RIGHTS REFORM IN CALIFORNIA, 1941-1978, NEW... |
2012 |
| G. Ben Cohen |
Mcclesky V. Kemp: Racism and the Death Penalty |
10 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 65 (Fall, 2012) |
I. Introduction. 65 II. McCleskey v. Kemp: Tolerating Statistical Evidence Establishing the Influence of Race. 71 III. The Continued Role of Race in the Operation of the Death Penalty. 72 A. State Level Discrepancies Focus on Race of the Victim. 73 B. Federal Death Penalty. 75 IV. The Local Level of Retribution, Race, and Arbitrariness. 78 A. The; Search Snippet: ...at 25 Guest Editor: Scott E. Sundby MCCLESKEY'S OMISSION: THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF RETRIBUTION G. Ben Cohen [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2012... |
2012 |
| Roberto Concepción, Jr. |
Needed in the Nineties: Improved Individual and Structural Remedies for Racial and Sexual Disadvantages in Employment |
19 Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy 231 (Spring, 2012) |
The current economic downturn, characterized by the most devastating recession in generations, continues to transform the employment application process into survival of the fittest. Employers are increasingly using criminal background checks, a permissible practice under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), as a litmus test to weed out; Search Snippet: ...Law and Policy Spring, 2012 Article NEED NOT APPLY: THE RACIAL DISPARATE IMPACT OF PRE-EMPLOYMENT CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS Roberto Concepción... |
2012 |
| Kate Meals |
Obama's Judiciary at Midterm: the Confirmation Drama Continues |
15 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice 97 (2012) |
I. Introduction. 98 II. Background. 103 A. Who are the Hungry?. 104 B. Enter Food Justice: A Community Movement for Change. 111 III. No Right to Food in the United States?. 114 IV. Urban Communities. 116 A. White Flight: A Brief History of Segregation and Ghettoization. 116 B. Grocery Stores Leave Urban Areas. 120 1. Transportation Barriers. 121 2; Search Snippet: ...THE SEEDS OF FOOD JUSTICE: UNEARTHING THE IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM ON ACCESS TO HEALTHY FOOD IN URBAN AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES... |
2012 |
| Joseph W. Doherty |
One of These Things Is Not like the Other: Analogizing Ageism to Racism in Employment Discrimination Cases |
20 American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review 651 (Winter 2012) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS L1-2Introduction . L3652 I. Taking a Critical Look 653 II. Racial Bias and Lawyering 655 III. Research Design and Problems of Inference 656 A. Ideal Types and Real World Research 656 B. Selection Bias 657 IV. Methodology 659 A. Racism and Lawyering: A Thought Experiment 659 B. Matching 660 C. Notes on the Data 664 V. Analysis; Search Snippet: ...Race: Is There a Relation? ONE CLIENT, DIFFERENT RACES: ESTIMATING RACIAL DISPARITY IN CHAPTER CHOICE USING MATCHED PAIRS OF DEBTORS Joseph... |
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| Annemarie Daly Linares |
Opposing Affirmative Action: the Social Psychology of Political Ideology and Racial Attitudes |
15 Quinnipiac Health Law Journal 89 (2011-2012) |
Pain is one of the most pervasively dreaded of all of the symptoms of illness, and yet, the under-treatment of pain occurs frequently. In the United States, under-treated pain occurs in sixty to seventy percent of patients. Since the 1990's, organizations like the American Pain Society have brought the issue of under-treatment of pain to national; Search Snippet: ...Article OPIOID PSEUDOADDICTION: A CASUALTY OF THE WAR ON DRUGS, RACISM, SEXISM, AND OPIOPHOBIA Annemarie Daly Linares [FN1] Copyright (c) 2012... |
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| Kimani Paul-Emile |
Patriotic Racism: an Investigation into Judicial Rhetoric and the Continued Legal Divestiture of Native American Rights |
60 UCLA Law Review 462 (December, 2012) |
One of medicine's open secrets is that patients routinely refuse or demand medical treatment based on the assigned physician's racial identity, and hospitals typically yield to patients' racial preferences. This widely practiced, if rarely acknowledged, phenomenon--about which there is new empirical evidence--poses a fundamental dilemma for law,; Search Snippet: ...UCLA LAW REVIEW UCLA Law Review December, 2012 Article PATIENTS' RACIAL PREFERENCES AND THE MEDICAL CULTURE OF ACCOMMODATION Kimani Paul-Emile... |
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