| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Deborah Escobedo |
Prostitution: Where Racism & Sexism Intersect |
26-SUM Human Rights 13 (Summer, 1999) |
It is hard to believe that the United States, a country that once welcomed immigrants with open arms, could conceivably be attempting to infringe the basic human rights of many of the immigrants who now call our country home. But that is exactly what is happening in several states that have enacted or are in the process of enacting legislation that; Search Snippet: ...will soon be published by the Applied Research Center's End Racism and Advance School Equity (ERASE) project Deborah Escobedo is... |
1999 |
| Pace Jefferson Mcconkie |
Race and Proportionality since Mccleskey V. Kemp (1987): Different Actors with Mixed Strategies of Denial and Avoidance |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 979 (Summer, 1999) |
In 1984, I came to this University's law school as a student desiring to obtain a legal education that would serve as a foundation for a career in civil rights advocacy, particularly in the realms of public education. It was my intent that this legal education would naturally be heaped upon the groundwork that had already been cultivated by my; Search Snippet: ...Higher Education RACE AND HIGHER EDUCATION: A RALLYING-CRY FOR RACIAL JUSTICE AND EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY Pace Jefferson Mcconkie [FNa1] Copyright... |
1999 |
| Chris K. Iijima |
Race Consciousness: the Thematic Content of Racial Distinctiveness in Critical Race Scholarship |
15 Touro Law Review 497 (Winter, 1999) |
There are many kinds of conversations conversations among family and friends, intimate ones, public ones. Moreover, the nuances of dialogue are inevitably influenced by who is speaking to whom about what. There are Socratic dialogues in which one is led through the process of recognizing one's own ignorance to reach a higher truth. There are... |
1999 |
| Ronald J. Tabak |
Racial Discrimination in Issuance of Concealed-carry Permits |
26-SUM Human Rights Rts. 5 (Summer, 1999) |
There is a long history of racial discrimination in the use of the death penalty in this country. Indeed, racial discrimination based on both the race of the defendant and the race of the victim was a principal reason why Justice Thurgood Marshall joined the Supreme Court majority that held in 1972 that the death penalty was unconstitutional.... |
1999 |
| Dorothy A. Brown |
Racial Equality over Hate Speech |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 759 (Summer, 1999) |
[T]ax . . . statutes . . . may be more burdensome to the poor and to the average black than to the more affluent white. In 1976, Supreme Court Justice Byron White recognized that tax statutes may have a disparate impact based upon race. Yet, it has taken the legal academy until the 1990's to begin to address those issues, and given the recent; Search Snippet: ...Century February 26-27, 1999 Essay Race and Tax & Business RACIAL EQUALITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: WHAT'S TAX POLICY GOT... |
1999 |
| Chester Hartman |
Racial Equity: It's Time to Step up |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 809 (Summer, 1999) |
Housing is an extraordinarily pervasive issue with respect to racial patterns and racism. America's neighborhoods are still enormously segregated by race, and there are few stable integrated areas. Such patterns of segregation-which at the extreme have been characterized by sociologists Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton as hypersegregation, using a; Search Snippet: ...Century February 26-27, 1999 Essay Race and Environment & Property RACIAL EQUITY IN HOUSING Chester Hartman [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999 Board... |
1999 |
| Walter M. Hudson |
Racial Fairness - Why Shouldn't it Apply to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act? |
159 Military Law Review Rev. 1 (March 1, 1999) |
In the early morning hours of 7 December 1995, Michael James and Jackie Burden walked down Hall Street in Fayetteville, North Carolina, a neighborhood they knew well. Two men approached them, one of whom had a gun. He pointed the gun close to their heads and fired at least five times. By the following afternoon, Fayetteville police arrested two 82d; Search Snippet: ...234569 MILITARY LAW REVIEW Military Law Review March 1999 Article RACIAL EXTREMISM IN THE ARMY Major Walter M. Hudson [FN1] Opinions... |
1999 |
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Racial Profiling under Attack |
5 CITYLAW 138 (November/December, 1999) |
One of the principal missions of the NYPD Street Crimes Unit is to rid high crime neighborhoods of illegal weapons. Six Black and Latino men, aged 23 to 31, charged that this squad habitually stopped and frisked individuals for guns without a reasonable suspicion that the persons had committed a crime, and that the individuals subjected to a; Search Snippet: ...1999 Current Development: Institutional Reform Litigation Law Enforcement RACIAL PROFILING SUIT PROCEEDS Copyright (c) 1999 by the Center for... |
1999 |
| Timothy Davis |
Racism in Great Britain: Drawing the Line on Free Speech |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 881 (Summer, 1999) |
In 1995, I published an article entitled The Myth of the Superspade: The Persistence of Racism in College Athletics. The article maintained that racism has been an enduring and central feature of intercollegiate athletics. It proposed that during the early years of college sports, racism manifested in overtly discriminatory conduct such as the; Search Snippet: ...First Century February 26-27, 1999 Essay Race and Culture RACISM IN ATHLETICS: SUBTLE YET PERSISTENT Timothy Davis [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
1999 |
| Judith Reed |
Reno |
1999-00 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 43 (September 13, 1999) |
In a case that mixes race and politics, the Supreme Court will decide whether a redistricting plan that intentionally saps minority voting strength should be denied preclearance under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The Clinton administration and a local NAACP chapter say yes; a Louisiana school board says no. Much of the litigation under the; Search Snippet: ...Must the Attorney General Preclear Voting Changes Enacted With a Racially Discriminatory but Not Retrogressive' Purpose? By Judith Reed a Copyright 1999... |
1999 |
| Steve Lash |
Repairing Harm from Racial Injustice: an Analysis of the Justice Reinvestment Initiative and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
1998-99 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 435 (April 12, 1999) |
In a case that mixes race and politics, the Supreme Court will decide whether a redistricting plan that saps minority voting strength provides sufficient evidence of intentional racial discrimination to constitute a violation of the Voting Rights Act by the plan's drafters. The Clinton administration and a local NAACP chapter say yes; a Louisiana; Search Snippet: ...Must the Attorney General Preclear Voting Changes Enacted With a Racially Discriminatory but Not Retrogressive Purpose? By Steve Lash a Copyright 1999... |
1999 |
| Robin H. Gise |
Rethinking Racial Divides: Asian Pacific Americans and the Law |
22 Fordham International Law Journal 2270 (June, 1999) |
Warren McClesky, an African-American man, was convicted of murdering a white police officer and sentenced to death in the Superior Court of Fulton County in Georgia in 1978. After making several appeals to the Supreme Court of Georgia, McClesky filed a writ of habeas corpus in federal district court in the Northern District of Georgia. His petition... |
1999 |
| C. Antoinette Clarke |
Say the Magic Words: Establishing a Historically Informed Standard to Prevent Partisanship from Shielding Racial Gerrymanders from Federal Judicial Review |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 813 (Summer, 1999) |
To put it in the simplest of terms, the criminal justice system treats ethnic and cultural minorities differently than it does whites. This disparate treatment is reflected in the end product of the system, that is, the fact that African Americans are vastly over-represented in prisons and jails relative to their numbers in the general population.... |
1999 |
| Melva L. Ware |
School Liability for Racially Hostile Environment Widened by Ninth Circuit |
18 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 465 (1999) |
The final school year of the Twentieth Century coincided with the decision in Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. This cased moved the nation's 44,000,000 public elementary and secondary school children another step closer to the now inevitable probability of attending racially segregated schools. Capacchione is the final chapter in... |
1999 |
| Kelly McMurry |
School Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration: What Do These Terms Mean in a Post-parents Involved in Community Schools, Racially Transitioning Society? |
35-JAN Trial 94 (January, 1999) |
School officials who ignore students' complaints about racial slurs made by other students may now be held liable under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found that a school may be liable for its failure to act if the need for intervention was so obvious, or if inaction was so likely to result in; Search Snippet: ...65384 TRIAL Trial January, 1999 News & Trends SCHOOL LIABILITY FOR RACIALLY HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT WIDENED BY NINTH CIRCUIT Kelly McMurry Copyright ©... |
1999 |
| Judith Reed |
Sentencing and State-level Racial and Ethnic Contexts |
4 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 389 (Spring 1999) |
Congressional redistricting draws the lines within which battles for political power will be fought. It is no surprise, therefore, that the redistricting process has long been the subject of social debate and legal dispute. The Supreme Court has not been able to resolve this dispute, in part, because the Justices have conflicting interpretations of; Search Snippet: ...Law Spring 1999 Article SENSE AND NONSENSE: STANDING IN THE RACIAL DISTRICTING CASES AS A WINDOW ON THE SUPREME COURT'S VIEW... |
1999 |
| Sharon Elizabeth Rush |
Shaw V. Reno: a Mirage of Good Intentions with Devastating Racial Consequences |
32 Connecticut Law Review Rev. 1 (Fall, 1999) |
On your mark. Get Set. GO! yelled the coach, as he let go of the two young girls' shoulders, freeing them to run as fast as they could to the finish line. Tie, said the assistant coach as each girl slapped his outstretched hands. Mary and Annie (not their real names) smiled at each other, obviously pleased with their performances and their; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Connecticut Law Review Fall, 1999 SHARING SPACE: WHY RACIAL GOODWILL ISN'T ENOUGH Sharon Elizabeth Rush [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999... |
1999 |
| Rebecca Porter |
Slavery, Jim Crow, and Mass Incarceration: Could the Thirteenth Amendment Hold the Key to Racial Equity in Criminal Justice? |
35-NOV Trial 13 (November, 1999) |
On some stretches of the nation's highways, it's not driving under the influence that alarms African American drivers. They may be more concerned with being pulled over for DWB--driving while black. Other minorities also feel that they have been scrutinized unnecessarily on the highways, in airports, and in public places because of their skin; Search Snippet: ...November, 1999 News & Trends SKIN DEEP: MINORITIES SEEK RELIEF FROM RACIAL PROFILING Rebecca Porter Copyright (c) 1999 Association of Trial Lawyers... |
1999 |
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Speech by Theodore M. Shaw: "From Brown to Grutter: the Legal Struggle for Racial Equality" |
18 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 361 (1999) |
I was walking up here and someone stopped me and they said, I used to watch you play basketball when I was a little boy. He was about 50 years old. I want to talk about a serious subject, but I first want to tell you one story from those years just so we have a frame of reference. I was in about my third year with the New York Knicks, and we; Search Snippet: ...relations were peaceful in the small town, the realities of racial prejudice in the 1940's and 1950's presented obstacles for Bradley as he traveled throughout the state with his racially mixed sporting teams. Bradley attended Princeton University before moving on... |
1999 |
| Phyllis W. Beck ; Patricia A. Daly, Esq. |
State Efforts to Reduce Racial Disparities in Criminal Justice: Empirical Analysis and Recommendations for Action |
72 Temple Law Review 597 (Fall 1999) |
A unanimous United States Supreme Court made itself quite clear in Whren v. United States: motor vehicle stops based on pretext are not prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. The primary concern with pretext stops is that they facilitate racial profiling, the process of singling out drivers based on their race. Although the Supreme Court was careful; Search Snippet: ...Review Fall 1999 Article STATE CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PRETEXT STOPS: RACIAL PROFILING AND PUBLIC POLICY CONCERNS The Honorable Phyllis W. Beck... |
1999 |
| Justin T. Allen |
Supreme Court Signals an End to Discriminatory Use of Peremptories |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 622 (Spring, 1999) |
In Campbell v. Louisiana, a grand jury indicted the defendant on one count of second degree murder. The defendant moved to quash the indictment, and in doing so, alleged a longstanding practice of racial discrimination in the selection of grand jury forepersons by the Parish in which he was indicted. The Supreme Court of Louisiana held that the; Search Snippet: ...DEFENDANT TO RAISE EQUAL PROTECTION AND DUE PROCESS CHALLENGES AGAINST RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE SELECTION OF GRAND JURORS Justin T. Allen... |
1999 |
| Jay C. Carlisle |
Systemic Classism, Systemic Racism: Are Social and Racial Justice Achievable in the United States? |
19 Pace Law Review 431 (Spring 1999) |
The recent Report of the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts (Taskforce) observes some biased conduct toward parties and witnesses based on gender or race or ethnicity has occurred on the part of both judges and lawyers. Biased conduct toward lawyers based on gender or race or ethnicity, has occurred... |
1999 |
| Michael A. Elliott |
Tender Ties: Husbands' Rights and Racial Exclusion in Chinese Marriage Cases, 1882-1924 |
24 Law and Social Inquiry 611 (Summer, 1999) |
Telling the Difference focuses on two legal opinions from the nineteenth century that carefully distinguish between those who should be racially marked as nonwhite and those who should not. In the first instance, a Michigan judge decides the appropriate blood fraction of African-American heritage that would prohibit a free man from voting. In; Search Snippet: ...Summer, 1999 TELLING THE DIFFERENCE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY LEGAL NARRATIVES OF RACIAL TAXONOMY Michael A. Elliott Copyright (C) 1999 American Bar Foundation... |
1999 |
| Steven Richman |
The Approach of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination to Interpreting and Applying International Humanitarian Law |
200-DEC New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 44 (December, 1999) |
In his opening sentence, Christopher Burke, an assistant attorney general in Wisconsin's Department of Justice, explains his purpose: This book attempts to describe and undo various liberal and communitarian strategies of jurisdiction that structure United States Supreme Court opinions in the area of political representation. His conclusion is; Search Snippet: ...Magazine December, 1999 Department Lawyer's Bookshelf THE APPEARANCE OF EQUITY: RACIAL GERRYMANDERING, REDISTRICTING AND THE SUPREME COURT, BY CHRISTOPHER M. BURKE... |
1999 |
| Joel F. Hoover |
The Art of Racial Dissent: African American Political Discourse in the Age of Obama |
21 University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 631 (Spring, 1999) |
In 1994, Mr. MacKintrush was charged with the murder of his wife, Ogretta MacKintrush, and was convicted of second-degree murder on July 30, 1996. On appeal, MacKintrush claimed that the trial court committed reversible error in overruling his objections to the prosecution's peremptory challenges because the prosecution's reasons for using; Search Snippet: ...NECESSARY FOR TRIAL COURTS TO DETERMINE WHETHER PEREMPTORY CHALLENGES ARE RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY IN LIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT'S DECISION... |
1999 |
| Charles S. Bullock, III ; Richard E. Dunn |
The Department of Education's Obama-era Initiative on Racial Disparities in School Discipline: Wrong for Students and Teachers, Wrong on the Law |
48 Emory Law Journal 1209 (Fall 1999) |
Many of the early stalwarts in the civil rights movement, including Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., placed their highest expectations on winning unencumbered access to the ballot box. They expected that once African-Americans became enfranchised, they would be able to use political muscle to bring about changes in other spheres such as employment,; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Emory Law Journal Fall 1999 Article THE DEMISE OF RACIAL DISTRICTING AND THE FUTURE OF BLACK REPRESENTATION [FNd1] Charles S... |
1999 |
| Stephanie Farrior |
The Never Ending Story of the Peremptory Challenge: Racial Discrimination in the New Jersey Jury System |
5 ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law 291 (Spring, 1999) |
As we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights this year, I would like to take particular note of the first of the core human rights treaties developed since adoption of the Universal Declaration, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. Adopted in 1965 by; Search Snippet: ...THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Stephanie Farrior [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1999 by International Law... |
1999 |
| Steven T. Taylor |
The Permissibility of Non-remedial Justifications for Racial Preferences in Public Contracting |
18 Of Counsel Counsel 2 (August 2, 1999) |
It may not be something the profession wants to acknowledge. In fact, many lawyers and law firm managers repeatedly deny its existence, even in the face of indisputable empirical and anecdotal evidence. But racial discrimination, either blatant or insidious, continues to taint the legal landscape. The typical white male attorney who is no more; Search Snippet: ...ISSUE...A UNIQUE PROGRAM ENCOURAGES THE PROFESSION TO FACE THE RACISM WITHIN Steven T. Taylor Copyright (c) 1999 Aspen Law & Business... |
1999 |
| Mark R. Rank |
The Racial Justice Act-- a Simple Matter of Justice |
1 Washington University Journal of Law and Policy 95 (1999) |
The following essay is based on a presentation given by Professor Mark R. Rank on 10 March 1999 as a part of an interdisciplinary panel discussion of Professor Dorothy Roberts' paper. I would like to briefly comment and expand upon a major point that Professor Dorothy Roberts has made, both in her talk today and in her writing. She has noted that... |
1999 |
| Sally Ackerman |
The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-century Canada |
21 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 137 (Fall 1999) |
Hatred that rages in souls and suddenly loses its immediate object does not disappear without a trace. [R]acism is as healthy today as it was during the Enlightenment. It seems that it has a utility far beyond economy, beyond the sequestering of classes from one another, and has assumed a metaphorical life so completely embedded in daily; Search Snippet: ...WHITE SUPREMACIST STATUS QUO: HOW THE AMERICAN LEGAL SYSTEM PERPETUATES RACISM AS SEEN THROUGH THE LENS OF PROPERTY LAW Sally Ackerman... |
1999 |
| Morrison Torrey |
Through a Glass Diversely: the O.j. Simpson Trial as Racial Rorschach Test |
21 Women's Rights Law Reporter 25 (Fall Winter 1999) |
Is it possible that pornographers have a constitutional right to produce materials that subordinate women? Is it possible that the cult of Free Speech has become more important than the lives of women? I would posit a series of questions even more horrifying: how is it possible that there is a multi-billion dollar entertainment industry that; Search Snippet: ...present in hate speech. Also, it should be recognized that racism, homophobia and anti-Semitism are strong components in a great... |
1999 |
| Debra Domenick |
To Debate or to Rectify Environmental Injustice: a Review of Faces of Environmental Racism |
103 Dickinson Law Review 765 (Summer 1999) |
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer . . . to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual's race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. In the case of Rogers v. Equal Employment... |
1999 |
| Larry Smith |
A Call to Affirmative Action for Fiction's Heroes of Color, or How Hawkeye, Huck, and Atticus Foil the Work of AntiRacism |
17 Of Counsel Counsel 2 (February 2, 1998) |
Forget, for a moment, what should or should not be social policy in the United States. From a strictly business standpoint, the proscription of the use of race and related considerations by the University of California Board of Regents in admitting candidates to the state's public law schools ought to give law firm employers some pause for concern; Search Snippet: ...1998 From the Editor A BUSINESS ISSUE CALIFORNIA'S MOVE ON RACIAL PREFERENCES RAISES NEW PROBLEMS FOR LAW FIRMS Larry Smith Copyright... |
1998 |
| Shannon L. Vandiver |
A Review of South Dakota Criminal Justice: a Study of Racial Disparities by Richard Braunstein and Steve Feimer |
21 Campbell Law Review 99 (Winter 1998) |
As we approach the dawn of a new century, we will again struggle with the problems inherent in the political processes that drive legislative reapportionment. After over thirty years of voting rights legislation and litigation, we are no more certain as to the meaning or place of congressional and judicial activism in the apportionment arena than; Search Snippet: ...Comment A RETURN TO THE BASICS: CONSTITUTIONAL ANSWERS TO THE RACIAL GERRYMANDERING QUESTIONS Shannon L. Vandiver Copyright (c) 1998 Campbell Law... |
1998 |
| Katrina M. Sanders |
An Analysis of Judicial Opinions Concerning the Legal Status of Racial Diversity Programs in Educational Institutions |
2 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 99 (Fall, 1998) |
On June 12, 1997, President William Clinton named a seven-member advisory board to study race relations in America. The board--chaired by Duke University historian John Hope Franklin of Durham, North Carolina, and comprised of attorneys, ministers, corporate executives, and two former governors--launched Clinton's campaign for a national dialogue; Search Snippet: ...of Gender, Race and Justice Fall, 1998 AMERICA'S QUEST FOR RACIAL TOLERANCE Katrina M. Sanders [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1998 Journal of... |
1998 |
| Rozelia S. Park |
An Examination of the Broad Scope of the Federal Arbitration Act and Binding Mandatory Consumer Arbitration Agreements: Not the Answer to Racial Bias in the United States Legal System |
5 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 659 (Spring, 1998) |
Increasing accusations of environmental racism in the domestic context have led to allegations of environmental racism in the global context by activists, academics, and leaders of developing nations. Claims of international environmental racism arise when a government or corporation pursues policies that disparately impact minorities. Conscious; Search Snippet: ...Legal Studies Spring, 1998 Note AN EXAMINATION OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM THROUGH THE LENS OF TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTES Rozelia... |
1998 |
| Benjamin E. Griffith |
Another Approach to Racial Preferences |
30 Urban Lawyer 995 (Fall, 1998) |
THE SUPREME COURT AND LOWER COURTS in 1997-98 addressed a wide range of election law issues and seemingly intractable reapportionment controversies under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. A trio of Supreme Court decisions focused on the meaning, application, and enforcement of the... |
1998 |
| Steven E. Ehlmann |
Answering the Diversity Mandate |
54 Washington University Journal of Urban and Contemporary Law 93 (Summer 1998) |
As the debate on affirmative action continues, its proponents have already won an important victory: the labeling of the term itself. The use of the term affirmative action in the context of modern political debate is flawed, for the modern discussion is not truly about affirmative action, but rather about racial preference. Labeling racial; Search Snippet: ...1998 Symposium Affirmative Action in Higher Education ANOTHER APPROACH TO RACIAL PREFERENCES [FNa1] Steven E. Ehlmann [FNaa1] Copyright (c) 1998 Washington... |
1998 |
| L. Ling-chi Wang |
Beyond Institutionalized Racism: "The Genocidal Impact of Executive, Legislative & Judicial Decision–making in the Crack Cocaine Fiasco" |
5 Asian Law Journal 329 (May, 1998) |
The campaign finance scandal of 1996, based on my own collection and estimate, has generated no less than 4,000 newspaper and magazine articles between September 1996 and February 1998 on the so-called Asian connection. At the eye of the storm were John Huang and Charlie Yah-lin Trie, two Asian American donors/fundraisers for President Bill; Search Snippet: ...Asian Law Journal May, 1998 Recent Development BEYOND IDENTITY AND RACIAL POLITICS: ASIAN AMERICANS AND THE CAMPAIGN FUND-RAISING CONTROVERSY L... |
1998 |
| Gary Stewart |
Black Enrollment in Law Schools: Forward to the Past? |
107 Yale Law Journal 2249 (May, 1998) |
[W]e remain imprisoned by the past as long as we deny its influence in the present. --Justice William Brennan Murder and mayhem are ravaging America's inner-cities. Indeed, members of neighborhood gangs are holding an alarming number of innocent citizens hostages in the hood, leaving residents of these communities afraid for their lives in; Search Snippet: ...1998 Notes BLACK CODES AND BROKEN WINDOWS: THE LEGACY OF RACIAL HEGEMONY IN ANTI-GANG CIVIL INJUNCTIONS Gary Stewart Copyright ©... |
1998 |
| Jill E. Evans |
Chambers V. Mississippi: the Hearsay Rule and Racial Evaluations of Credibility |
40 Arizona Law Review 1219 (Winter, 1998) |
Survival per se; Survival naked and abstract; Survival without any qualitative or quantitative standard of what survives or why is truly one of the strangest intellectual stopping points that one man has ever proposed to another. --Virginia Woolf Some sixty years ago, W.E.B. Du Bois stated that race is the dominant theme of the twentieth century; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Arizona Law Review Winter, 1998 December, 1998 CHALLENGING THE RACISM IN ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: REDEFINING THE CONCEPT OF INTENT Jill E. Evans [FNa1] Copyright... |
1998 |
| Robert Redwine |
Constitutional Law: Racial Promotion Quotas--united States V. Paradise, 107 S. Ct. 1053 (1987) |
51 Oklahoma Law Review 373 (Summer, 1998) |
The end of a decade is, in many respects, a noteworthy event, particularly when the end of a decade is also the end of a century and millennium. Much will undoubtedly be celebrated and written about such a historical event. For political office holders and pundits, however, the most anticipated event will likely be reapportionment of legislative... |
1998 |
| Natsu Taylor Saito |
Crossing the Color Line: Racial Migration and the One-drop Rule, 1600-1860 |
1 Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal 53 (1998) |
P1 Scholars, social activists, and policy makers often regard the United States' foreign policy as it relates to human rights and its domestic policy with respect to race as distinct areas, separated by the nation's border. Although this border exists geographically, through the assertion of jurisdiction, and in the recognition of citizenship, is; Search Snippet: ...Article CROSSING THE BORDER: THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF FOREIGN POLICY AND RACIAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES By Natsu Taylor Saito [FNa1... |
1998 |
| David Cohen |
Democracy Frozen in Devonian Amber: the Racial Impact of Permanent Felon Disenfranchisement in Florida |
15 National Black Law Journal 87 (1997-1998) |
As we approach the end of the millennium, this country is facing a crisis of incarceration. With the prison population growing dramatically, 123 new state and federal prisons were scheduled to open in 1996. In 1994 and 1995, the demand for new prison beds averaged about 1400 per week. At an average cost of $54,000 per cell, the construction costs; Search Snippet: ...Journal 1997-1998 Articles DEMOCRACY AND THE INTERSECTION OF PRISONS, RACISM AND CAPITAL Review Essay: Worse Thean Slavery: Parchman Fram and... |
1998 |
| James R. Hackney Jr. |
Desert in the Deluge: Using Data to Drive Racial Equity |
23 Law and Social Inquiry 141 (Winter, 1998) |
Critical race scholarship (CRS) is one of the most prominent and controversial strands of thought in legal academe. It has spawned widespread criticisms but has also reached a stage of intellectual maturity, warranting two general anthologies and others more specialized (Gates 1997; Wing 1997; Crenshaw et al. 1995; Delgado 1995). Given the; Search Snippet: ...Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism. New York: Basic Books, 1992. Pp. ix + 222. $20.00... |
1998 |
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Destabilizing Racial Classifications Based on Insights Gleaned from Trademark Law |
88 The Trademark Reporter 72 (January-February, 1998) |
A law professor uses trademark law creatively to explore what he views as the persistence of the black/white dichotomous racial classification system in American society. His premise is that in the United States individuals are divided into two categories: black or white, despite the fact that they may be the products of mixed marriages or other; Search Snippet: ...Articles and Reports Reviews of Articles from Other Publications DESTABILIZING RACIAL CLASSIFICATION BASED ON INSIGHTS GLEANED FROM TRADEMARK LAW. BY ALEX... |
1998 |
| Andrew Hammel |
Discrimination and Implicit Bias in a Racially Unequal Society |
3 Texas Forum on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights 187 (Summer 1998) |
In Swain v. Alabama, the Supreme Court recognized that prosecutors are entitled to a presumption that they exercise their peremptory strikes in order to obtain a fair and impartial jury. The Court held that a defendant could overcome that presumption by a prima facie showing that a prosecutor's peremptory strikes were exercised in a racially; Search Snippet: ...DISCRIMINATION AND DEATH IN DALLAS: A CASE STUDY IN SYSTEMATIC RACIAL EXCLUSION Andrew Hammel [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1998 Texas Forum on... |
1998 |
| Robert S. Chang |
Driving While Black: Racial Profiling in America |
5 Asian Law Journal 41 (May, 1998) |
Professor Chang observes that Asians are often perceived as interlopers in the nativistic American family. This conception of a nativist family is White in composition and therefore accords a sense of economic and sexual entitlement to Whites, ironically, even if particular beneficiaries are recent immigrants. Transgressions by those perceived; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal May, 1998 Article DREAMING IN BLACK AND WHITE: RACIAL-SEXUAL POLICING IN THE BIRTH OF A NATION, THE CHEAT... |
1998 |
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El Rol Del Tribunal Supremo En El Discrimen Racial |
4 CITYLAW 64 (May/June, 1998) |
Bernard Cassidy, Michael Cleary, James Lovejoy and Julian Prager, four white males, were assigned to the Correction's elite Management Evaluation Division. In 1989 complaints charging discrimination against Hispanic employees were filed against the men. The ensuing investigation recommended Cassidy be reprimanded and found the other three men, as; Search Snippet: ...Commission on Human Rights Race EEO REPORT NOT RACIALLY MOTIVATED Copyright (c) 1998 by the Center for New York... |
1998 |
| Audrey C. Tan |
Employment Discrimination--Racial Discrimination--a Rational Factfinder Could Find That a Single Derogatory Racial Slur Uttered by an Employee's Superior Amounts to Discriminatory Conduct Severe Enough to Create a Hostile Work Environment and Outrageous E |
20 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal 873 (December, 1998) |
Two young African-American women answer an advertisement that seeks temporary waitresses for a dinner at a large hotel. The two women are hired and told to report to the hotel's main banquet hall the next night. They do so and, except for a bit of confusion over drink orders, things proceed quite well for the next few hours. As the women begin to... |
1998 |