| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| David Rudovsky , R. Richard Banks |
Racial Profiling and Whren: Searching for Objective Evidence of the Fourth Amendment on the Nation's Roads |
155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 173 (2007) |
For Professor David Rudovsky, of Penn, there is just as little to recommend the racial profiling techniques employed by law enforcement in the War on Terror as there is in the War on Crime. Rudovsky argues that profiling is inaccurate--both as to whom it targets and whom it does not--susceptible to abuse, and counterproductive to; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW PENNUMBRA University of Pennsylvania Law Review PENNumbra 2007 Debate RACIAL PROFILING AND THE WAR ON TERROR David Rudovsky [FNd1] R... |
2007 |
| Carrie L. Arnold |
Racial Profiling in Jury Selection: the Third Circuit Revisits the Batson Inquiry in Riley V. Taylor |
49 Arizona Law Review 113 (Spring 2007) |
After the tragic attacks of September 11, 2001, the lack of communication and cooperation among local, state, and federal law enforcement became the subject of intense criticism. Under pressure to deal with illegal immigration, the Department of Justice (DOJ) began to consider extending immigration enforcement responsibilities to state and local; Search Snippet: ...1180979 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW Arizona Law Review Spring 2007 Note RACIAL PROFILING IN IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT: STATE AND LOCAL AGREEMENTS TO ENFORCE... |
2007 |
| Rajeev D. Majumdar |
Racially Restrictive Covenants--were They Dignity Takings? |
30 Seattle University Law Review 1095 (Summer, 2007) |
Prior to the civil rights movement, the placement of covenants, conditions, and restrictions within titles that prohibited the habitation, use, or ownership of real property by specific religious or racial groups was an accepted practice. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 rendered these restrictions unenforceable with regard to the housing market. The; Search Snippet: ...UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Seattle University Law Review Summer, 2007 Comment RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON: A PRIMER FOR... |
2007 |
| Michael J. Kaufman |
Reasonable but Unconstitutional: Racial Profiling and the Radical Objectivity of Whren V. United States |
41 University of Richmond Law Review 707 (March, 2007) |
Imagine a social studies class in a public high school. The class has twenty students, ten of whom are white and ten of whom are African-American. The classroom contains ten desks on the east side of the room, which are separated from ten desks on the west side of the room by an aisle. On the first day of class, the ten African-American students; Search Snippet: ...AND RACE: THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES DESIGNED TO TEACH RACIAL LITERACY Michael J. Kaufman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2007 University of... |
2007 |
| Glenn C. Loury |
Remarks on Racial Profiling in Missouri |
23 Georgia State University Law Review 585 (Spring, 2007) |
My lecture this afternoon is about race and racial inequality in the United States. I will try to give you some idea of what I think I'm contributing to the study of this subject in my work. In order to do that I need to give some background, to create something of an intellectual context into which my work will fit. I will begin by describing some; Search Snippet: ...Spring, 2007 Articles RELATIONS BEFORE TRANSACTIONS: A NEW PARADIGM FOR RACIAL DISCRIMINATION THEORY [FNd1] Glenn C. Loury Copyright (c) 2007 Georgia... |
2007 |
| Neil F. Carlson , Leonard M. Baynes |
Rethinking the Language of Race and Racism |
21 Saint John's Journal of Legal Commentary 575 (Spring-Summer 2007) |
Executive Summary. 578 Introduction. 579 Race and Representation: How the Media Shape and Misshape Race in America. 581 Framing Race: How Media Shape the Discourse at the Nexus of Race and Public Policy. 589 Media Production: Diversity in the Newsroom and the Culture of News Production. 592 The Political Economy of the Media: How Economics and; Search Snippet: ...DISCOURSE ON RACE: A SYMPOSIUM ON HOW THE LACK OF RACIAL DIVERSITY IN THE MEDIA AFFECTS SOCIAL JUSTICE AND POLICY Neil... |
2007 |
| Karin S. Portlock |
Stereotype Threat and Antidiscrimination Law: Affirmative Steps to Promote Meritocracy and Racial Equality in Education |
107 Columbia Law Review 1404 (October, 2007) |
This Note addresses the exceptions in many states' rape shield laws that permit the admission of the complainant's status as a prostitute into evidence. While these laws take various forms, New York's rape shield law contains a legislated exception to its shield, which allows for the admission of the complainant's prostitution convictions that have... |
2007 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Tales of Color and Colonialism: Racial Realism and Settler Colonial Theory |
2007 Wisconsin Law Review 283 (2007) |
I. Introduction. 284 II. The Tulia Sting, or Round Up the Usual Suspects . 286 A. The Sting. 288 B. Vindication of the Accused. 291 III. The Continuing Evil of Race-Mixing: Tulia as a Case Study. 294 A. The Legal and Social Prohibition of Black-White Relationships. 295 1. The Persistence of Social Separation. 297 2. The Lingering Stigma of; Search Snippet: ...IN TULIA, TEXAS: THE TABOO ON BLACK-WHITE ROMANCE AND RACIAL PROFILING IN THE WAR ON DRUGS Kevin R. Johnson [FNa1... |
2007 |
| Chris Chambers Goodman |
The Color of Post-ethnicity: the Civic Ideology and the Persistence of Anti-black Racism |
25 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice Ineq. 1 (Winter 2007) |
For the present, individuals involved in the administration of justice should be aware of the existence of crime related racial stereotypes and their potential influence in the legal system. More than twenty years later, the idea has not yet caught on. I know how those people act. African Americans commit more crimes. African Americans are; Search Snippet: ...Winter 2007 Article THE COLOR OF OUR CHARACTER: CONFRONTING THE RACIAL CHARACTER OF RULE 404(B) EVIDENCE Chris Chambers Goodman [FNa1... |
2007 |
| Brant T. Lee |
The Devil We Know: Racial Subordination and National Security Law |
26 Quinnipiac Law Review 57 (2007) |
It is a central problem in the great American conversation about race to explain persistent racial inequality. The dominant narrative tells us that, historically, racial inequality was caused directly and simply, by explicit and intentional racial discrimination based on unreasoning race hatred. The paradigmatic examples are slavery and; Search Snippet: ...2007 Article THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS: ON INTELLIGENT DESIGN, RACIAL CONSPIRACY THEORIES, AND THE THEOLOGY OF WHITENESS Brant T. Lee... |
2007 |
| Reynaldo Ramirez, Jr. |
The European Union and Fan Racism in European Soccer Stadiums: the Time Has Come for Action |
33 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 169 (Fall, 2007) |
Johnnie Cochran is a name recognized around the world as one of the Dream Team attorneys, who represented O.J Simpson in one of the most famous trials of this century. Whether your opinion differs from that of the jury, we can all agree that Cochran demonstrated tenacity, zealousness, and ethics in his representation, setting a new level for all; Search Snippet: ...LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHNNIE COCHRAN: A LAWYER'S FIGHT AGAINST RACISM & THE MISUSE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE Reynaldo Ramirez, Jr. [FNa1] Copyright... |
2007 |
| Ashleigh Shelby Rosette , Tracy L. Dumas |
The Hidden Consequences of Racial Salience in Videotaped Interrogations and Confessions |
14 Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy 407 (January, 2007) |
Social scientists have long chronicled the impact of an individual's appearance on numerous outcomes including others' judgments of the individual's competence, amicability, intelligence, and trustworthiness. As these types of judgments affect hiring decisions, promotions, performance appraisals, and other critical work outcomes, they can have a; Search Snippet: ...Article THE HAIR DILEMMA: CONFORM TO MAINSTREAM EXPECTATIONS OR EMPHASIZE RACIAL IDENTITY Ashleigh Shelby Rosette [FNa1] Tracy L. Dumas [FNaa1] Copyright... |
2007 |
| Lloyd Jeglikowski |
The Implications of Parents Involved for Charter School Racial Balancing Provisions |
9 Rutgers Race & the Law Review 129 (2007) |
In the 2005 case of Johnson v. California, the Supreme Court held that prison policies of racial segregation must be subjected to a review of strict scrutiny. On remand, the court below must thus decide whether there is a compelling state interest to justify the California Department of Corrections policy of racially segregating new inmates to; Search Snippet: ...Review 2007 Note THE IMPLICATION OF PRISONERS' RIGHTS JURISPRUDENCE ON RACIAL SEGREGATION IN PRISONS: THE NORMATIVE APPROACH GIVES WAY TO AN... |
2007 |
| Larry M. Roth |
The Meaning and Reach of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
34 Southern University Law Review 123 (Summer, 2007) |
It has to be the reader's immediate thought of how, or why, is someone even using Louis Brandeis's name and the concept of racism in the same breath? Yet, that is what this Article examines. Louis Brandeis, within his one life, lived many sub-lives. Like changing hats, he would assume different identities as he compartmentalized his life's; Search Snippet: ...BRANDEIS: PROGRESSIVE-REFORMER. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. AVOWED ZIONIST. AND A RACIST? Larry M. Roth [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 Southern University Law Review... |
2007 |
| Samuel Estreicher |
The North American Free Trade Agreement and Environmental Racism |
2007 Cato Supreme Court Review 239 (2006-2007) |
Preferment by race, when resorted to by the State, can be the most divisive of policies, containing within it the potential to destroy confidence in the Constitution and the idea of equality. --Justice Anthony Kennedy, dissenting in Grutter v. Bollinger, 539 U.S. 306, 388 (2003) In the Supreme Court's recent pass at affirmative action, the; Search Snippet: ...2007 Article Equal Protection THE NON-PREFERMENT PRINCIPLE AND THE RACIAL TIEBREAKER CASES Samuel Estreicher [FNa1] Copyright © 2007 by the Cato... |
2007 |
| E. Earl Parson, B.A., J.D., LLM , Monique McLaughlin, B.A., J.D. |
The Personal and the Professional: Assessing the Ambivalent Commitment to Racial Justice in the United States |
8 Journal of Law in Society 75 (Summer, 2007) |
The right to vote is the cornerstone of our representative form of government. It is the one right, perhaps more than any other, upon which all other constitutional rights depend for their effective protection. It must be zealously safeguarded. Universal suffrage is one of the most cherished concepts of American democracy despite a history of... |
2007 |
| Kevin Noble Maillard |
The Political Economy of Racial Discourse |
12 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 351 (Spring 2007) |
The Pocahontas Exception confronts the legal existence and cultural fascination with the eponymous Indian Grandmother. Laws existed in many states that prohibited marriage between Whites and non-Whites to prevent the quagmire of mongrelization. Yet, this racial protectionism, as ingrained in law, blatantly exempted Indian blood from the... |
2007 |
| Joanne Doroshow , Amy Widman |
The Racial Injustice of Poverty |
25 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 161 (2007) |
Whether discussing the impact of typical tort reform proposals or the broad rhetoric used to support restrictions on legal rights, racial prejudice lurks behind the tort reform movement. Some connections to race appear to be part of a deliberate public relations effort, while others are not so apparent. However, it is clear that these pervasive... |
2007 |
| Charles Lewis Nier III |
The Significance of Race: Legislative Racial Discrimination in Louisiana, 1803-1865 |
11 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change 131 (2007-2008) |
Responding to a controversy regarding incendiary remarks that surfaced in the media from his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., United States Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama came to the City of Philadelphia to deliver a major address on the issue of race in the United States. In a remarkable and; Search Snippet: ...2008 Article THE SHADOW OF CREDIT: THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF RACIAL PREDATORY LENDING AND ITS IMPACT UPON AFRICAN AMERICAN WEALTH ACCUMULATION... |
2007 |
| Walter T. Champion, Jr. |
The War on People: Reframing "The War on Drugs" by Addressing Racism Within American Drug Policy Through Restorative Justice and Community Collaboration |
33 Thurgood Marshall Law Review 157 (Fall, 2007) |
The Simpson case was like pulling back this carpet, Cochran told the Chicago Tribune, and under this carpet is all this dirt and nobody is dealing with it. O.J. Simpson was a sports hero before he took center stage in the crime of the century. The media coverage of the Simpson trial focused public attention on issues of race in an... |
2007 |
| Andrew D. Black |
Thugs, "Crooks," and "Rebellious Negroes": Racist and Racialized Media Coverage of Michael Brown and the Ferguson Demonstrations |
46 University of Louisville Law Review 177 (Fall 2007) |
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of every three African-American men between the ages of twenty and twenty-nine are under the control of the; Search Snippet: ...WAR ON PEOPLE: REFRAMING THE WAR ON DRUGS BY ADDRESSING RACISM WITHIN AMERICAN DRUG POLICY THROUGH RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY COLLABORATION... |
2007 |
| Adèle Hutton Auxier |
Title Ix Narratives, Intersectionality, and Male-biased Conceptions of Racism |
21 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 215 (2007) |
Professor Rick Garnett uses the analogy of a yard to describe the Supreme Court's free speech jurisprudence. It goes like this: the more manicured the lawn, the more gently the government must tread if it wants to regulate. If we extend the analogy, we could say that racist hate speech is not a lawn, but a junkyard--full of sharp objects, health; Search Snippet: ...THROUGH THE JUNKYARD: THREE APPROACHES TO THE MORAL DILEMMA OF RACIST HATE SPEECH Adèle Hutton Auxier [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2007 University... |
2007 |
| Lolita Buckner Inniss |
Toward a Tort-based Theory of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Racial Justice |
9 Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy 32 (2007) |
Canada is often viewed as a bastion of racial tolerance. Its anti-racism, enshrined even at the constitutional level, is part of the ethos of the Canadian people. Long celebrated as a haven for racial minorities of all kinds, Canada is often held up as a model multicultural society. For some, Canadian multiculturalism is, in its best form, almost; Search Snippet: ...CANADA? OVERCOMING THE DIFFERENCE-DENIAL MODEL OF COUNTERING ANTI-BLACK RACISM Lolita Buckner Inniss [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2007 Regents of the... |
2007 |
| Susan L. Waysdorf |
Tying Racism in El Ejido to Spanish and European Politics |
9 University of the District of Columbia Law Review 91 (Winter 2007) |
Every legal case has a story behind it, and some, like this one, also have a legacy. This is a story about two immigrant tailors in Chicago-the white tailor's attempt to sell his tailor shop to the black tailor, and the racial discrimination they confronted together. One tailor, Ivan Thompson, was a black citizen of Great Britain living in Chicago,; Search Snippet: ...Advocacy in the 21st Century TWO TAILORS: THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL JUSTICE IN 1970S CHICAGO Susan L. Waysdorf [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2007 |
| Andje Morovich |
Voir Dire-peremptory Challenges on the Basis of Race-equal Protection Clause-standing-the United States Supreme Court Has Held That the Equal Protection Clause Prohibits a Prosecutor from Exercising Peremptory Challenges to Remove Jurors of a Race Other t |
37 Golden Gate University Law Review 657 (Spring 2007) |
In Kesser v. Cambra, the en banc Ninth Circuit panel held that a California State Prosecutor's justifications for peremptory challenges during jury voir dire were pretexts for purposeful discrimination. The Ninth Circuit concluded that the California Court of Appeal failed to apply the proper Supreme Court test under Batson v. Kentucky to determine; Search Snippet: ...Gate University Law Review Spring 2007 Case Summary VOIR DIRE RACIAL DISCRIMINATION UNDER A COMPARATIVE JUROR ANALYSIS IN KESSER V. CAMBRA... |
2007 |
| Aaron H. Chiu |
We must Be Hunters of Meaning: Race, Metaphor, and the Models of Steven Winter |
7 University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class 415 (Fall 2007) |
In August 1994, McKinley Cromedy was convicted of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, second-degree robbery, second-degree burglary, and third-degree terroristic threats. He was sentenced to sixty years in prison, despite the fact that no forensic evidence presented at court linked him to the crime. Instead, Cromedy, a black man, was convicted; Search Snippet: ...COURT SHOULD EDUCATE JURORS ON THE POTENTIAL INACCURACIES OF CROSS- RACIAL IDENTIFICATIONS Aaron H. Chiu [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2007 University of... |
2007 |
| Yoonjo J. Lee |
Whites Will Be Whites: the Failure to Interrogate Racial Privilege |
28 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 557 (Spring 2007) |
As elite judges summarily determine which interests are worthy of legal cognizance, they unsurprisingly embrace concerns that strike closest to home, sustaining harms that mirror the experiences and predilections of their own lives. In the early 1920's, in a forgotten portion of New York City, Paul was born to Italian immigrants. During that time; Search Snippet: ...OR BLESSING?: STANDING TO SUE AS NON-TARGETED BYSTANDERS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT Yoonjo J. Lee [FN1] Copyright... |
2007 |
| Steven R. Morrison |
Willful Colorblindness: the New Racial Piety and the Resegregation of Public Schools |
2 Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy 63 (Summer, 2007) |
Postmodern investigations of racism in American law follow in the tradition of tragic detective films noir: pursuing the culprit through a maze of smoke and mirrors in which the detective is never sure of his precise location, his destination, his suspect, or his suspect's culpability, he finally resolves the case and catches his man. His doubts; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 2007 Article WILL TO POWER, WILL TO REALITY, AND RACIAL PROFILING: HOW THE WHITE MALE DOMINANT POWER STRUCTURE CREATES ITSELF... |
2007 |
| Christine Stiglbauer |
A Case of Racial Justice: Quince and Ward V. State of Rhode Island |
27 Whittier Law Review 1097 (Summer 2006) |
The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is the key provision of the Constitution that has been used to protect citizens against invidious state discrimination. When a state draws distinctions among its people through the laws and the law is then challenged under equal protection, a sufficiently important objective for [the]... |
2006 |
| Milton Stanzler, Esq. |
A Case Study of Color-blindness: the Racially Disparate Impacts of Arizona's S.b. 1070 and the Failure of Comprehensive Immigration Reform |
54-APR Rhode Island Bar Journal 11 (March/April, 2006) |
On June 9th, 2005, I was honored to receive the Rhode Island Bar Association's 2005 Ralph P. Semonoff Award. In my acceptance remarks, I referenced a case I was privileged to participate in with Ralph P. Semonoff. The case involved two young migrant workers who were arrested and unlawfully detained for six months as material witnesses to an alleged; Search Snippet: ...Island Bar Journal March/April, 2006 Article A CASE OF RACIAL JUSTICE: QUINCE AND WARD v. STATE OF RHODE ISLAND Milton... |
2006 |
| Russell L. Jones |
A Nation of White Immigrants: State and Federal Racial Preferences for White Noncitizens |
41 Valparaiso University Law Review 621 (Winter 2006) |
[O]ur country must abandon all the habits of racism, because we cannot carry the message of freedom and the baggage of bigotry at the same time. The above quote from the second inaugural address of President George W. Bush is a reminder to Americans that all is not well on the home front. Semblances of the denial of liberty and freedom that; Search Snippet: ...Winter 2006 December 2006 Article A MORE PERFECT NATION: ENDING RACIAL PROFILING Russell L. Jones [FNa1] Copyright © 2006 by Valparaiso University... |
2006 |
| Bailey Figler |
A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism. By Owen Fiss et Al. Edited by Joshua Cohen, Jefferson Decker, and Joel Rogers. Princeton, N.j.: Princeton University Press, 2003. Pp. 125 + Index. $19.95 (Cloth) |
61 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 723 (2006) |
Introduction. 724 I. A Brief History of Felon Disenfranchisement. 728 II. The Racial Dimensions of Felon Disenfranchisement. 732 A. Race neutral justifications do not fully explain felon disenfranchisement. 732 B. Historical invidious racism. 738 C. A modern, unconscious racism. 739 D. Racial impact of felon disenfranchisement today. 742 III. The; Search Snippet: ...The Survey Issue Note A VOTE FOR DEMOCRACY: CONFRONTING THE RACIAL ASPECTS OF FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT Bailey Figler [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2006... |
2006 |
| Melanie Gart |
A. Racial Classifications in Consent Decree Permissible to Ameliorate past Effects of Racial Discrimination-stuart V. Roache, 951 F.2d 446 (1st Cir.1991), Cert. Denied, 112 S.ct. 1948 (1992) |
65 Maryland Law Review 1018 (2006) |
In Smith v. State, the Court of Appeals considered for the first time whether a defense counsel may attack a white victim's identification of two black defendants with unsupported own-race bias (ORB) arguments during summation. The court held that the criminal defendant's right to effective advocacy entitled him to attack the credibility of the; Search Snippet: ...RACE BIAS ARGUMENTS IN SUMMATION INVITES JUROR CONFUSION AND IRRELEVANT RACIAL CONSIDERATIONS INTO CRIMINAL TRIALS Melanie Gart Copyright (c) 2006 Maryland... |
2006 |
| Stephen J. Wermiel |
Ain't No Peace until We Get a Piece: Exploring the Justiciability and Potential Mechanisms of Reparations for American Blacks Through United States Law, Specific Modes of International Law, and the Covenant for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discr |
33-FALL Human Rights 26 (Fall, 2006) |
When a natural disaster strikes, Americans look for heroes. The first images of Hurricane Katrina captured not only the physical destruction but also heroic boat and helicopter rescues of residents stranded on rooftops with water rising around them. The response to Katrina also brought a different kind of hero, individuals whose principal impact... |
2006 |
| Ryan Patrick Alford |
Appelt, Erna and Monika Jarosch, Eds., Combating Racial Discrimination: Affirmative Action as a Model for Europe (Berg Publishers). |
11 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 325 (Spring 2006) |
INTRODUCTION. 326 I. Understanding the Importance of Racist Rhetoric in the Summations of Criminal Trials. 329 A. The Impact of a Prosecutorial Summation Alluding to Racist Stereotypes on a Defendant of a Minority Race and the History of the Courts' Failure to Acknowledge that Harm. 329 B. The Courts' Recognition of the Harm Caused by Racist; Search Snippet: ...of Race and Law Spring 2006 Article APPELLATE REVIEW OF RACIST SUMMATIONS: REDEEMING THE PROMISE OF SEARCHING ANALYSIS Ryan Patrick Alford... |
2006 |
| Celia M. Ruiz |
Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (Second Edition) |
67 Ohio State Law Journal 303 (2006) |
More than fifty years after the U.S. Supreme Court's seminal decision in Brown v. Board of Education, schools and the societies they serve continue to struggle to desegregate by constitutional means. The 2003 Grutter decision affirmed that diversity itself can be a sufficiently compelling governmental interest to survive strict scrutiny, opening; Search Snippet: ...Grutter--Affirmative Action in Twenty-Five Years Article CAN VOLUNTARY RACIAL INTEGRATION PLANS AT THE K-12 EDUCATIONAL LEVEL MEET GRUTTER'S... |
2006 |
| Tseming Yang |
Choosing Diversity: School Choice and Racial Integration in the Age of Obama |
11 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 367 (Spring 2006) |
INTRODUCTION. 367 I. Crossing Lines of Color and Race. 372 A. Past Efforts to Cross Color and Race Lines. 372 1. Racial Passing. 372 2. Legal Recognition of Whitness (and other Racial Identities). 376 B. New Ways of Passing and Changing One's Racial Identity: Medical Technology and Bureaucratic Records. 377 C. The Construction of Race and Racial; Search Snippet: ...Race and Law Spring 2006 Article CHOICE AND FRAUD IN RACIAL IDENTIFICATION: THE DILEMMA OF POLICING RACE IN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, THE... |
2006 |
| D. Christopher Robinson |
Close Encounters of the Racial Kind: Pedagogical Reflections and Seminar Conversations |
94 Kentucky Law Journal 607 (2005-2006) |
The voice sounded as if it was of a male black [sic]. The previous statement was the testimony of a Caucasian police officer in the recent Kentucky drug trafficking case, Clifford v. Commonwealth. In Clifford, the prosecution's case hinged on the quoted testimony of the police officer concerning the race of the defendant, and the officer's... |
2006 |
| M. C. Gibbons, M.D., M.P.H. |
Comparative Racial Discrimination Law: Measures to Combat Racial Discrimination in Employment in the Member States of the European Community |
9 Journal of Health Care Law and Policy 48 (2006) |
Although the existence of racial and ethnic disparities is increasingly recognized, a complete understanding of the causes and solutions to these problems remains elusive. Part One of this paper provides a historical overview of the origins of these disparities. Part Two outlines fundamental challenges to achieving a clear understanding of the; Search Snippet: ...Health Status Symposium COMMON GROUND: EXPLORING POLICY APPROACHES TO ADDRESSING RACIAL DISPARITIES FROM THE LEFT AND THE RIGHT M. C. Gibbons... |
2006 |
| Jason O. Billy |
Confronting Systemic Racism in the Criminal Justice System: We All Have a Duty to Act |
22 Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal 25 (Spring, 2006) |
In 1998, Matthew Hale graduated from Southern Illinois Law School and passed the Illinois bar examination in July of that year. Nevertheless, the Inquiry Panel for the Supreme Court of Illinois's Committee on Character and Fitness, in a 2-1 decision, denied Hale admission to the practice of law. Because of his racist beliefs, the Panel found that; Search Snippet: ...LAW JOURNAL Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal Spring, 2006 Article CONFRONTING RACISTS AT THE BAR: MATTHEW HALE, MORAL CHARACTER, AND REGULATING THE... |
2006 |
| Cheryl R. Lee |
Constitutional Law |
11 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 557 (Spring 2006) |
History teaches us that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure. INTRODUCTION. 557 I. The Racial Profiling Problem. 564 II. Compromising the Reporting Devices. 569 A. Generating Cash Transaction Reports--CTRs. 569 B. Creating Suspicious Activity Reports--SARs. 571 III; Search Snippet: ...Law Spring 2006 Article CONSTITUTIONAL CASH: ARE BANKS GUILTY OF RACIAL PROFILING IN IMPLEMENTING THE UNITED STATES PATRIOT ACT? Cheryl R... |
2006 |
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Constitutional Law -- Equal Protection -- Ninth Circuit Holds That Racial Tiebreaker in High School Assignment Plan Violates the Equal Protection Clause. -- Parents Involved in Community Schools V. Seattle School District, No. 1. 377 F.3d 949 (9th Cir. 20 |
119 Harvard Law Review 1915 (April, 2006) |
In 2003, when the Supreme Court heard Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger, it appeared that the Court would end years of confusion and lay out a clear affirmative action doctrine. However, the decisions, in which the Court held one program constitutional and the other unconstitutional with only one Justice joining both opinions, did little; Search Snippet: ...CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- EQUAL PROTECTION -- NINTH CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT HIGH SCHOOL RACIAL BALANCING PLAN DOES NOT VIOLATE THE EQUAL PROCTECTION CLAUSE. -- PARENTS... |
2006 |
| Michelle Feist |
Constitutional Law--equal Protection--Racial Consideration in the Context of Law School Admissions Is Constitutional When Narrowly Tailored to Meet the Compelling Interest of Student Body Diversity. |
82 North Dakota Law Review 263 (2006) |
A male inmate arriving at the California Department of Corrections (CDC), either as a transferee from another state institution or as a new inmate, was housed in a reception center. The inmate could remain in the reception center for up to sixty days depending upon how soon after his arrival he would be transferred to permanent housing. During this; Search Snippet: ...LAW--EQUAL PROTECTION OF LAW: STRICT SCRUTINY APPLIES TO ALL RACIALLY SEGREGATED CITIZENS, FREE AND CONFINED JOHNSON V. CALIFORNIA, 543 U.S... |
2006 |
| Denis Archibald Fallon |
Constitutional Law-use of Fee Simple Determinable as Means of Constitutional Racial Discrimination.-charlotte Park and Recreation Commission V. Barringer, 88 S.e.2d 114 (N.c. 1955) |
73 Tennessee Law Review 281 (Winter, 2006) |
Johnson v. California, 543 U.S. 499 (2005). On June 22, 1987, plaintiff, an African-American male, began serving a sentence of twenty-five years to life in the California Institution for Men in Chino, California, for the crimes of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery, and murder. During plaintiff's initial evaluative period, the California; Search Snippet: ...THE STANDARD OF REVIEW FOR EQUAL PROTECTION CHALLENGES TO GOVERNMENTAL RACIAL CLASSIFICATION IN PRISON Denis Archibald Fallon Copyright (c) 2006 Tennessee... |
2006 |
| Ashley Young |
Continuing the Trend Toward Equality: the Eradication of Racially and Sexually Discriminatory Provisions in Private Trusts |
17 DePaul-LCA Journal of Art and Entertainment Law L. 1 (Fall 2006) |
~ Law is embroiled in the politics of identity ~ Since the days the first European settlers landed on the eastern shores of North America and began to displace the indigenous population, Native Americans have been both culturally and physically subjugated. This can be seen most clearly in the acceptance of both the desecration and looting of Native; Search Snippet: ...Law Fall 2006 Lead Article CONTINUING AN AMERICAN LEGACY OF RACIAL AND CULTURAL INJUSTICE: A CRITICAL LOOK AT BONNICHSEN V. UNITED... |
2006 |
| Richard Salgado |
Dangerous Liaisons: Campus Racial Harassment Policies, the First Amendment, and the Efficacy of Suppression |
15 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 69 (2006) |
Introduction. 69 I. The Demise of Overt Racism/ Barbecue in Indian Wells. 74 II. Unconscious Racism, Denial, & Rationalization/ After a Yankee's Game, 1:30 a.m.. 84 III. Overcoming Unconscious Racism / Riding the A Train to JFK, 3:30 a.m.. 96 Conclusion. 105; Search Snippet: ...THE XENOPHOBE RIDES THE A-TRAIN, OR THE MODERN, UNCONSCIOUS RACIST IN ENLIGHTENED AMERICA Richard Salgado [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2006 American... |
2006 |
| Brian L. Withrow, Ph.D. |
Defending the Use of Quotas in Affirmative Action: Attacking Racism in the Nineties |
40-AUG Prosecutor 31 (July/August, 2006) |
In 2003 the State of Kansas released the results of a legislatively mandated statewide racial profiling study. Conducted by the Police Foundation, the study attempted to determine whether racial profiling is occurring in Kansas, and if so, which minorities are being targeted. The researchers compared stop data against a benchmark designed to; Search Snippet: ...Prosecutor July/August, 2006 Feature The Prosecutor Feature DEFENDING THE RACIAL PROFILING ACCUSATION: THE CASE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENTIST AS AN... |
2006 |
| Solangel Maldonado |
Discrimination and Death in Dallas: a Case Study in Systematic Racial Exclusion |
39 U.C. Davis Law Review 1415 (April, 2006) |
More than 20,000 white Americans go abroad each year to adopt children from other countries, the majority of whom are not white. At the same time, there are more African American children available for adoption than there are African American families seeking to adopt them. While Americans claim there are few healthy infants available for adoption; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW U.C. Davis Law Review April, 2006 Article DISCOURAGING RACIAL PREFERENCES IN ADOPTIONS Solangel Maldonado [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2006 Regents... |
2006 |
| R. Richard Banks, Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Lee Ross |
Discrimination by Any Other Name: Alternatives to Proving Deliberate Intent in Environmental Racism Cases |
94 California Law Review 1169 (July, 2006) |
For most of American history, racial discrimination was legally permissible and racial bias was openly espoused. African Americans, in particular, were regarded as inferior to Whites and subjected to the most rank forms of overt discrimination. Now, our society seems to have developed a broad consensus in opposition to racial bias and to; Search Snippet: ...Symposium on Behavioral Realism DISCRIMINATION AND IMPLICIT BIAS IN A RACIALLY UNEQUAL SOCIETY R. Richard Banks Jennifer L. Eberhardt Lee Ross... |
2006 |
| Matthew S. Owen, Danielle S. Barbour |
Dispelling the Myth of Rationality: Racial Discrimination in Taxicab Service and the Efficacy of Litigation under 42 U.s.c. S 1981 |
105 Michigan Law Review First Impressions 144 (2006) |
The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI) amended the Michigan Constitution to provide that public universities, colleges, and school districts may not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of . public education. We... |
2006 |