| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Lisa M. Krzewinski |
Secure Communities, Racial Profiling, & Suppression Law in Removal Proceedings |
21 Boston College Third World Law Journal 315 (Winter, 2001) |
AS LONG AS THEY DON'T MOVE NEXT DOOR. By Stephen Grant Meyer. Lantham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2000. Pp. 343. In his book, As Long as They Don't Move Next Door, Stephen Grant Meyer examines the history of housing segregation in the United States. He asserts that, while African Americans have made great advancements; Search Snippet: ...8'S FAILURE TO INTEGRATE: THE INTERACTION OF CLASS-BASED AND RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Lisa M. Krzewinski [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2001 by Boston... |
2001 |
| Andrea D. Lyon |
Settlement of Racial Discrimination Claim Excludable. (Dc) |
6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 319 (Spring 2001) |
INTRODUCTION. 320 I. Usual Standards of Review for Allegations of Prosecutorial Misconduct. 321 A. General Standard. 321 B. The Standard of Review Specifically Governing Racial Bias. 324 C. The Standard of Review Specifically Governing Gender Bias. 326 II. Why The Standards Need to Change: Deplorable Instances of Prosecutorial Appeals to Bias. 327; Search Snippet: ...THE RECORD STRAIGHT: A PROPOSAL FOR HANDLING PROSECUTORIAL APPEALS TO RACIAL, ETHNIC OR GENDER PREJUDICE DURING TRIAL Andrea D. Lyon [FNa1... |
2001 |
| Tanya Katerí Hernández |
Sexualized Racism/gendered Violence: Outraging the Body Politic in the Reconstruction South |
4 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 183 (Spring 2001) |
I. Introduction II. Racial Disparity of Sexual Harassment A. The Statistical Data B. Early Explanations for the Statistical Pattern III. Prostitution Paradigm as a Causal Factor A. Historical Backdrop to the Prostitution Paradigm B. The Sex Tourism Comparison: Overt Expression of Racialized Gender Stereotypes 1. Sex Tourism Defined 2. Prevalence of; Search Snippet: ...Gender, Race and Justice Spring 2001 Articles SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND RACIAL DISPARITY: THE MUTUAL CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER AND RACE Tanya Katerí... |
2001 |
| Colin M. Black |
Shooting an Elephant --massachusetts Maintains Reasonable Suspicion: Protecting Individual Privacy During Traffic Stops and Battling Racial Profiling |
6 Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy 215 (2001) |
...(T)o eliminate any requirement that the officer be able to explain that reasons for his actions signals an abandonment of effective judicial supervision...leaves police discretion utterly without limits. Some citizens will be subjected to this minor indignity while others--perhaps those with more expensive cars, or different bumper stickers, or; Search Snippet: ...REASONABLE SUSPICION: PROTECTING INDIVIDUAL PRIVACY DURING TRAFFIC STOPS AND BATTLING RACIAL PROFILING Colin M. Black Copyright (c) 2001 Suffolk University; Colin... |
2001 |
| Walter Block , Roy Whitehead |
Shouldn't the Constitution Be Color Blind? Metro Broadcasting, Inc. V. Fcc Transmits a Surprising Message on Racial Preferences |
22 Northern Illinois University Law Review 53 (Fall 2001) |
This paper attempts to address the question of whether the government should be allowed to engage in racial, sexual or other acts of discrimination. Part I does so by analyzing extant law to determine whether or not such acts are compatible with the United States Constitution. Using Arkansas as a case study, this paper takes as an initial point of... |
2001 |
| Marsha Lillie-Blanton , Rose Marie Martinez , Alina Salganicoff |
Sixth Amendment--no-impeachment Rule--Racially Biased Statements in Jury Deliberations--peña-rodriguez V. Colorado |
1 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 15 (Spring 2001) |
Prior to the 1960s, Americans generally obtained health care in racially segregated facilities or from health providers of their own race or ethnicity. Racial, geographic, and economic factors influenced where minority Americans could get their health care. Minority Americans, who were disproportionately low income, relied on a combination of; Search Snippet: ...Ethnic Disparities in Health Article SITE OF MEDICAL CARE: DO RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIFFERENCES PERSIST? Marsha Lillie-Blanton [FNa1] Rose Marie... |
2001 |
| Elisabeth R. Calcaterra , Natalie G. Mitchell |
Success and Failure: How Systemic Racism Trumped the Brown V. Board of Education Decision |
6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 339 (Spring 2001) |
The federal government's 1998 Buckle Up America campaign, an effort to increase seat belt use, had the potential of preventing needless tragedies. The campaign's goal was to make the failure to wear seatbelts a primary offense nationwide, thereby permitting officers to stop vehicles in which occupants were not buckled up. Minority communities... |
2001 |
| Regina Waynes Joseph |
Testing for Racial Prejudice in the Parole Board Release Process: Theory and Evidence |
209-JUN New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 44 (June, 2001) |
(Regina Waynes Joseph testified before the committee in Trenton on April 9, 2001.) Good afternoon Chairman Gormley, Senator Lynch, members of the committee, Mr. Chertoff and counsel. I am Regina Waynes Joseph, an attorney at law of the state of New Jersey, a member of the board of directors of the Garden State Bar Association and; Search Snippet: ...BEFORE THE NEW JERSEY SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION INTO RACIAL PROFILING Regina Waynes Joseph [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2001 by Regina... |
2001 |
| Eric K. Yamamoto |
The Color of Desire: Fulfilling Adoptive Parents' Racial Preferences Through Discriminatory State Action |
8 Asian Law Journal 153 (May, 2001) |
This symposium aims to connect those of us here scholars, lawyers, community workers and law students. It also aims to link us with our Asian American communities, and then beyond, with African Americans, Native Americans and Hawaiians, Latinas/os and white Americans of good will, and then beyond that, with all people struggling against forms... |
2001 |
| CHRISTOPHER RAMOS |
The Effect of Assumptions about Racial Bias on the Analysis of Batson 'S Three Harms and the Peremptory Challenge |
4 Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Minority Issues 149 (Fall 2001) |
I. Introduction. 150 II. Historical Background. 152 A. Racially Restrictive Deed Covenants. 152 B. San Antonio's History and Racially Restrictive Covenants. 156 III. The Law of Racially Restrictive Covenants. 158 A. State Courts Side-Step Traditional Doctrines Simply to Prevent Non-White Families from Living in White Neighborhoods. 160 B; Search Snippet: ...on Minority Issues Fall 2001 Comment THE EDUCATIONAL LEGACY OF RACIALLY RESTRICTIVE COVENANTS: THEIR LONG TERM IMPACT ON MEXICAN AMERICANS CHRISTOPHER... |
2001 |
| Robert J. Cottrol |
The Long Shadow of Racial Profiling |
76 Tulane Law Review 11 (November, 2001) |
This is an Article on race relations and comparative legal history. It contrasts the law of race and slavery in three Latin American nations, Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, with the parallel history in the United States. The Article examines the Afro-Latin experience as a critical issue in its own right and as a way to better inform our... |
2001 |
| Musa Keenheel |
The Neglected Pillar: the "Teaching Tolerance" Provision of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination |
20 Temple Environmental Law and Technology Journal 105 (Fall 2001) |
Environmental racism is a term which was coined by the Reverend Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. Chavis heads the United Church of Christ, a religious denomination which promotes human rights. He defined environmental racism as the intentional or unintentional disproportionate burdening of minority communities with environmental hazards. Although there are; Search Snippet: ...NEW LEGISLATION AND LIBERALIZATION OF CURRENT LAWS TO COMBAT ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM Musa Keenheel Copyright (c) 2001 Temple Environmental Law and Technology... |
2001 |
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The next Challenge in Sexual Harassment Reform: Racial Disparity |
45 Howard Law Journal 157 (Fall 2001) |
I am honored to have the opportunity to give this year's Clarence Clyde Ferguson Lecture. A brilliant scholar and devoted activist, Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. was also a demanding dean and teacher who required all of us to be in the pursuit of excellence, as we studied the law. He was fully engaged with, and attentive to, his students. He was my; Search Snippet: ...2001 Clarence Clyde Ferguson Lecture THE NEXT BOLD STEP TOWARD RACIAL HEALING AND RECONCILIATION: DEALING WITH THE LEGACY OF SLAVERY Copyright... |
2001 |
| Linda Martin Pybas |
The Pocahontas Exception: the Exemption of American Indian Ancestry from Racial Purity Law |
1 Margins: Maryland's Interdisciplinary Publication on Race, Religion, Gender, and Class 169 (Spring, 2001) |
Says author Berry, when a black man is lynched or executed it is because the powerful--most usually white males--defined him as an object--the other--whose punishment, whether guilty or not, signs racial subordination through perpetuation of a negative image of black males. Furthermore she says, when an African American woman's rape is ignored,; Search Snippet: ...FARMER'S DAUGHTER AND OTHER TALES OF AMERICAN JUSTICE: EPISODES OF RACISM AND SEXISM IN THE COURTS FROM 1865 TO THE PRESENT... |
2001 |
| Harvey Gee |
The Racial and Ethnic Composition of Pre-kindergarten Classrooms and Children's Language Development |
11 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 775 (Summer 2001) |
During this dawn of a new millennium, Asian American student enrollment at American Universities has continued to increase at unprecedented rates. Currently, Asian Americans account for four percent of this nation's population, but Asian American students represent more than six percent of total college enrollment and a significantly larger; Search Snippet: ...Hall Constitutional Law Journal Summer 2001 Article Book Review THE RACIAL AND CULTURAL PROFILING OF ASIAN AMERICANS: A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY... |
2001 |
| James R. Devine |
The Racial Roots of Human Trafficking |
11 Seton Hall Journal of Sport Law 1 (2001) |
I. Introduction. 1 II. The Minor Leagues and the Draft. 5 III. The Minor Leagues and Option Agreements. 11 IV. Commissioner Landis and Minor League Ownership. 18 V. Branch Rickey's Minor Leagues. 27 VI. Rickey and Landis Tangle over the Minors. 31 VII. Branch Rickey and the Racial Reintegration of Major League Baseball. 39 VIII. Business v; Search Snippet: ...LAW Seton Hall Journal of Sport Law 2001 Article THE RACIAL RE-INTEGRATION OF MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: A BUSINESS RATHER THAN... |
2001 |
| David E. Bernstein |
The Rise (And Fall?) Of Race-conscious Remedies and "Benign" Racial Discrimination in Public Education |
9 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 619 (April, 2001) |
The reaction to Boy Scouts of Americav. Dale has divided along ideological lines. Conservatives generally support Dale because in their eyes it prevents the government from taking sides in the culture wars. Progressives, including many liberals who otherwise have strong civil libertarian instincts, oppose Dale because it inhibits the enforcement... |
2001 |
| Martin D. Carcieri |
The Special Measures Mandate of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination: Lessons from the United States and South Africa |
13 Saint Thomas Law Review 577 (Winter, 2001) |
Those to Whom Evil Is Done Do Evil in Return W. H. Auden, September 1, 1939 One Must Not Do Wrong Even When One Is Wronged Socrates, Crito The struggle over affirmative action continues. Affirmative action was an issue in the recent presidential campaign, the subject of recent federal court challenges, and the focus of reform at the state... |
2001 |
| Annie Wu |
The World Conference Against Racism: Through a Wider Lens |
17 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 917 (Summer 2001) |
Bigotry, hatred, prejudice--these are the ugly symptoms of a sickness humanity has always and everywhere suffered. Racism can, will and must be defeated. -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2001 as the International Year of Mobilization against Racism, Racial Discrimination,; Search Snippet: ...Human Rights Summer 2001 Un Report THE WORLD CONFERENCE AGAINST RACISM, RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, XENOPHOBIA AND RELATED INTOLERANCE: DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA Annie Wu... |
2001 |
| John P. Rutledge |
Thinking Outside the Bars: Using Hawaiian Traditions and Culturally-based Healing to Eliminate Racial Disparities Within Hawai'i's Criminal Justice System |
28 American Journal of Criminal Law 207 (Spring 2001) |
I. Introduction. 207 II. Why are Cross-Racial Eyewitness IDs Especially Unreliable?. 211 III. Traditional Tools: Cross-Examination & Closing Argument. 214 IV. Expert Testimony. 216 V. Special Jury Instruction. 224 VI. Conclusion. 227 Have sight and hearing truth in them? Are they not, as the poets are always telling us, inaccurate witnesses?; Search Snippet: ...2001 Article THEY ALL LOOK ALIKE: THE INACCURACY OF CROSS- RACIAL IDENTIFICATIONS John P. Rutledge [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2001 University of... |
2001 |
| Farah Brelvi |
Unconscious Racism |
48-DEC Federal Lawyer 68 (November/December, 2001) |
I am writing this feeling so depressed and frustrated. I am sure you all know that I am Egyptian and of Muslim faith. I was also born and raised in America. Since September 11, my family and friends of the same background have been dealing with the feelings of fear and sadness like everyone else. But we've also been dealing with more . you all know; Search Snippet: ...FEDERAL LAWYER Federal Lawyer November/December, 2001 UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES Racial Profiling and the Backlash after Sept. 11 Farah Brelvi [FNa1... |
2001 |
| Jeffrey D. Grossett |
Us Against Them: the Path to National Security Is Paved by Racism |
52 Case Western Reserve Law Review 339 (Fall 2001) |
The recognition that diversity plays an essential role in the development and education of a child is not a novel idea. While years of Supreme Court jurisprudence firmly entrenched segregation in education, educators fought for diversity in the classroom. In fact, studies showing the adverse effects of segregation on the education of... |
2001 |
| Julie H. Hurwitz , E. Quita Sullivan |
Using International Human Rights Law to Combat Racial Discrimination in the U. S. Criminal Justice System |
2 Journal of Law in Society Society 5 (Winter, 2001) |
Those who suffer most from environmental dangers are those least equipped to protect themselves people in low-income communities and communities of color. Attempts to respond to the severity of this problem have taken a number of forms from community activism to legal battles. In the legal arena, a relatively new strategy for remedying... |
2001 |
| David A. Harris |
When the Medium Becomes the Message: a Proposal for Principal Media Liability for the Publication of Racially Exclusionary Real Estate Advertisements |
6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 237 (Spring 2001) |
I. The Numbers So Far: What Current Statistics onRacial Profiling Show. 243 A. New Jersey. 244 B. Maryland. 246 C. Ohio. 247 II. The Coming Backlash: Criticism of the Current Statistics. 252 A. The Data Do Not Include All Stops Police Make. 252 B. The Data Do Not Include Violator Rates. 253 C. The Data Do Not Account for Different Levels of; Search Snippet: ...2000 & Beyond WHEN SUCCESS BREEDS ATTACK: THE COMING BACKLASH AGAINST RACIAL PROFILING STUDIES David A. Harris [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2001 David... |
2001 |
| Benjamin D. Steiner , Victor Argothy |
White Liberal Looks at Racist Speech |
10 Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review 443 (Spring 2001) |
[O]pposing whiteness is not the same as opposing white people. White supremacy is an equal opportunity employer; nonwhite people can become active agents of white supremacy as well as passive participants in its hierarchies and rewards. Some of these kids come from beautiful homes, says W.J. Hunt, chairman of the Los Angeles County Narcotics and; Search Snippet: ...Symposium: U.S. Drug Laws: The New Jim Crow? WHITE ADDICTION: RACIAL INEQUALITY, RACIAL IDEOLOGY, AND THE WAR ON DRUGS Benjamin D. Steiner [FNa1... |
2001 |
| Enid Trucios-Haynes |
Why Did Racial/ethnic Sentencing Differences in Federal District Courts Grow Larger under the Guidelines? |
12 La Raza Law Journal 1 (2001) |
Latinas/os are a force to be reckoned with, and we now require our own room in the Master's House. Yet, we must not forget it is the Master's House, and we are constrained by the basic home rule that is White supremacy. Latinas/os are not exempt from the oppression of White supremacy, yet, as a group or individually, we often are seduced into; Search Snippet: ...2001 Article WHY RACE MATTERS: LATCRIT THEORY AND LATINA/O RACIAL IDENTITY Enid Trucios-Haynes [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2001 by La... |
2001 |
| Jamie L. Wacks |
A Proposed Standard of Equal Protection Review for Classifications Within the Criminal Justice System That Have a Racially Disparate Impact: a Case Study of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines' Classification Between Crack and Powder Cocaine |
7 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 195 (Winter 2000) |
We need to address what it is that maintains racial attitudes. One of the issues we have to face is the fact that there still are great barriers in our society . . . attitudinal barriers. Even as we pride ourselves for being a rainbow nation, beneath the surface lurks racist sentiments against those who were historically oppressed, poor and... |
2000 |
| Tanya K. Hernandez |
An Individual Preference Approach to Suburban Racial Desegregation |
33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1135 (Summer, 2000) |
What guarantee do Negroes have that socialism means racial equality any more than does capitalist democracy? Would socialism mean the assimilation of the Negro into the dominant racial group .. In other words, the failure of American capitalist abundance to help solve the crying problems of the Negro's existence cannot be fobbed off on some future... |
2000 |
| David L. Hudson, Jr. |
Arab Americans, Affirmative Action, and a Quest for Racial Identity |
1999-00 Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases 305 (March 8, 2000) |
In Wisconsin v. Mitchell, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of a hate crime law under which a defendant who commits a crime based on a biased purpose can receive an increased sentence. The Court rejected the defendant's First Amendment challenge that the law punished offensive thought. Now, the Court faces a different; Search Snippet: ...Must the State Prove That an Alleged Hate Crime Was Racially Motivated Beyond a Reasonable Doubt? By David L. Hudson, Jr. a... |
2000 |
| John G. Moore |
Beautifully Powerful: a Latcrit Reflection on Coming to an Epistemological Consciousness and the Power of Testimonio |
51 South Carolina Law Review 823 (Summer 2000) |
Since its enactment, South Carolina's Charter Schools Act of 1996 has frequently been criticized for its racial balancing requirement. The balancing requirement dictates that under no circumstances may a charter school enrollment differ from the racial composition of the school district by more than ten percent. In Beaufort County Board of; Search Snippet: ...BEAUFORT COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION V. LIGHTHOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL COMMITTEE: RACIAL BALANCING PROVISION IN SOUTH CAROLINA CHARTER SCHOOLS ACT FLUNKS THE... |
2000 |
| Keith E. Sealing |
Blue Lives & the Permanence of Racism |
5 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 559 (Spring 2000) |
INTRODUCTION. 560 I. The Paradigm. 565 A. The Conceptual Framework. 565 B. The Legal Argument. 569 C. Because The Bible Tells Me So. 571 D. The Concept of Race . 574 II. Pre-Darwinian Theories of Racial Inferiority. 576 A. The Monogenists. 577 B. The Polygenists. 578 III. Darwin Changes the Playing Field. 583 IV. The Modern Era: IQ Testing. 585; Search Snippet: ...Race and Law Spring 2000 Article BLOOD WILL TELL: SCIENTIFIC RACISM AND THE LEGAL PROHIBITIONS AGAINST MISCEGENATION Keith E. Sealing [FNa1... |
2000 |
| Richard Delgado ; Jean Stefancic |
California's Sca 5 and Racial Preferences in Education |
47 UCLA Law Review 1521 (August, 2000) |
Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic examine the history of racial mistreatment of citizens of color in California. Beginning with incidents of racial brutality during the early Spanish colonial period and proceeding into the present, Delgado and Stefancic reveal that California has not been the egalitarian paradise many suppose. The authors write; Search Snippet: ...the Law at the Law Turn of the Century CALIFORNIA'S RACIAL HISTORY AND CONSTITUTIONAL RATIONALES FOR RACE-CONSCIOUS DECISION MAKING IN... |
2000 |
| Timothy McAllister |
Can We Talk? How Triggers for Unconscious Racism Strengthen the Importance of Dialogue |
73-MAY Wisconsin Lawyer 48 (May, 2000) |
One of the most volatile dilemmas facing our nation is explored in this book. This well-organized text begins with a discussion of terminology issues and a brief historic overview of the constitutional and citizenship aspects of the major racial and ethnic minorities the book covers: Blacks, Latinos, American Indians, and Asians. Using an abundance; Search Snippet: ...May, 2000 Department Book Review CAN WE ALL GET ALONG?: RACIAL AND ETHNIC MINORITIES IN AMERICAN POLITICS (SECOND EDITION) By Paula... |
2000 |
| Geoffrey Graber |
Choosing Your Child's Race |
73 Southern California Law Review 437 (January, 2000) |
Israel is a nation that resists definition. Not by accident, it is both a Jewish state, existing of, by and for the Jewish people, and a liberal-democracy, guaranteeing to all citizens freedom and equality under the law, regardless of race or religion. These two conceptions of the state are not opposites, nor are they synonyms. Instead, they relate; Search Snippet: ...Review January, 2000 Notes CHOOSING THE CHOSEN: THE VALIDITY OF RACIAL RESTRICTIONS ON THE ALIENATION OF PROPERTY IN ISRAEL AND THE... |
2000 |
| Neil Gotanda |
Compensatory Damages for Sex or Racial Discrimination Are Generally Excludable. (Rev. Rul) |
47 UCLA Law Review 1689 (August, 2000) |
This Article uses the case of Wen Ho Lee, the Chinese American nuclear physicist accused of espionage, as an example of the racial treatment of Asian Americans as different from African Americans. Starting with a brief comparative analysis of how racial profiling has been used in the Wen Ho Lee case as well as in the cases of Amadou Diallo and John... |
2000 |
| John McLaren, University of Victoria, British Columbia |
Constitutional Cash: Are Banks Guilty of Racial Profiling in Implementing the United States Patriot Act? |
44 American Journal of Legal History 443 (October, 2000) |
Fortunately in the contemporary blooming of scholarship on Canadian legal history, increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the treatment of race and ethnicity in Canadian law. Following quickly on the heels of James Walker's seminal study of the handling of race issues by the Supreme Court of Canada between 1914 and 1955, comes Connie; Search Snippet: ...Book Review CONSTANCE BACKHOUSE, COLOUR-CODED: A LEGAL HISTORY OF RACISM IN CANADA, 1900-1950. TORONTO: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS, 1999... |
2000 |
| Reviewed by Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas |
Critical Race Theory and Proposition 187: the Racial Politics of Immigration Law |
18 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 419 (Summer 2000) |
In recent years, the university presses have increasingly welcomed personal narratives that interweave race topics. Patricia J. Williams's The Alchemy of Race and Rights is among the most successful of such crossover books. Like Williams's book, the three works reviewed herein can be viewed as forming part of the burgeoning corpus of critical; Search Snippet: ...AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY: CAN A POPULAR HYBRID GENRE REACH ACROSS THE RACIAL DIVIDE? Notes of a Racial Caste Baby, Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action by... |
2000 |
| MaryAnn Fenicato , For The Lawyers Journal |
Death Sentencing in Black and White: an Empirical Analysis of the Role of Jurors' Race and Jury Racial Composition |
2 Lawyers Journal J. 1 (May 5, 2000) |
James Bond himself might be shaken and stirred by the skills of William Basemore, a criminal who used all sorts of stealth devices and martial arts weapons, both store-bought and homemade, to commit robbery, burglary, and felonious murder in grand Hollywood style. On January 20, 2000, the PA Supreme Court reversed and remanded Basemore's death; Search Snippet: ...STEALTHY CRIMINAL REVERSED AND REMANDED Videotape Reveals Prosecution Advocating Juror Racial Discrimination MaryAnn Fenicato [FNa1] For The Lawyers Journal Copyright ©... |
2000 |
| Lisa Gelhaus |
Defendants, Racism and the Peremptory Challenge: a Reply to Professor Goldwasser |
36-APR Trial 100 (April, 2000) |
Maryland's highest court has ruled that a trial judge erred by denying a defendant's request to ask prospective jurors specifically about racial bias, even though the crime had no racial overtones. In Hernandez v. Maryland, Maryland Court of Appeals Judge Lawrence Rodow-sky wrote, The trial court should have asked a question that was designed to; Search Snippet: ...April, 2000 News & Trends DEFENDANTS MAY ASK JURY PANEL ABOUT RACIAL BIAS, MARYLAND COURT SAYS Lisa Gelhaus Copyright (c) 2000 Association... |
2000 |
| Keith D. Nunes |
Deterring Racial Bias in Criminal Justice Through Sentencing |
16 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 811 (Summer, 2000) |
We went in joy and in sorrow; Because of the destruction and the disgrace, We grieved for our community and we rejoiced that we had escaped with so many survivors I'm leaving I'm leaving now Before loneliness Suffocates me I'm leaving Before I leave I want to say thanks . I am grateful for all the beautiful eyes who saw a man in me and not an alien... |
2000 |
| Adero S. Jernigan |
Driving While Brown: a Proposal for Ending Racial Profiling in Emerging Latino Communities |
24 Law & Psychology Review 127 (Spring, 2000) |
A Carmel, Indiana police officer stopped Sergeant David Smith of the Indiana State Police while Smith was driving an unmarked vehicle. Smith said the Carmel police officer stopped him simply because he was black. The officer stated he stopped Smith because Smith made an illegal turn. Similarly, a San Diego Sheriff's Deputy handcuffed and detained; Search Snippet: ...Law & Psychology Review Spring, 2000 Student Articles DRIVING WHILE BLACK: RACIAL PROFILING IN AMERICA Adero S. Jernigan Copyright (c) 2000 by... |
2000 |
| Reubin O'D. Askew, Lance DeHaven-Smith |
Easing the Fear of Too Much Justice: a Compromise Proposal to Revise the Racial Justice Act |
27 Florida State University Law Review XIII (Winter, 2000) |
There is an old saying in Florida that aptly expresses the state's political philosophy: If it ain't broke, don't fix it. This saying implies a generally conservative stance, but also a streak of liberalism. Floridians are reluctant to make changes in their laws and customs, but they will do so when necessary, that is, when things are broken.... |
2000 |
| Richard J. Lazarus |
Environmental Racism! That's What it Is. |
2000 University of Illinois Law Review 255 (2000) |
In this essay, Professor Lazarus discusses former NAACP director the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Chavis's characterization of U.S. environmental policy as environmental racism. He first justifies this provocative topic choice and then suggests that Chavis's allegation has transformed environmental law. Professor Lazarus next discusses the details of this; Search Snippet: ...Illinois Law Review 2000 Symposium: Innovations in Environmental Policy ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM! THAT'S WHAT IT IS. Richard J. Lazarus [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2000 |
| Kevin Brown |
Equal Protection Clause--Racial Gerrymandering-- Alabama Legislative Black Caucus V. Alabama |
34 Akron Law Review 37 (2000) |
This essay is entitled Equal Protection Challenges to the Use of Racial Classifications to Promote Integrated Public Elementary and Secondary Student Enrollments. I delivered this essay as a speech in Akron, Ohio, at a conference titled Education and the Constitution: Shaping Each Other and the Next Century in March of 2000. The topic of this... |
2000 |
| Lisa Walter |
Esl and Bilingual Education as a Proxy for Racial and Ethnic Segregation in U.s. Public Schools |
71 University of Colorado Law Review 255 (Winter 2000) |
Late one night on a lonely stretch of highway in Texas's Panola County, a state trooper passed a minivan with four African-American occupants and out-of-state license plates. The trooper sped ahead of the van, pulled over on the shoulder beyond the crest of a hill, and turned off his lights. When the van suddenly came upon the police car, the; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW University of Colorado Law Review Winter 2000 Comment ERADICATING RACIAL STEREOTYPING FROM TERRY STOPS: THE CASE FOR AN EQUAL PROTECTION... |
2000 |
| Elizabeth Rogers |
Federal Appellate Court Outlines Parameters for Racially Hostile Environment |
86-JUL ABA Journal 94 (July, 2000) |
Congress is considering legislation supported by the aba to require data collection to determine the extent of racial profiling by police officers during routine traffic stops. Race-based traffic stops turn driving, one of our most ordinary and fundamentally American activities, into an experience fraught with danger and risk for people of color,; Search Snippet: ...ABA Washington Report FEAR OF DRIVING Congress Considers Study of Racial Profiling in Police Traffic Stops Elizabeth Rogers [FNa1] Copyright ©... |
2000 |
| Elizabeth M. Iglesias |
Governor William F. Winter |
45 Villanova Law Review 1037 (2000) |
All things and all circumstances must first be created on the mental plane. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas. IN this essay, I examine the role of law in the production of racial spaces. An initial comment about the term racial spaces is a good place to start; Search Snippet: ...and International Law: Convergence and Divergence Articles & Essays GLOBAL MARKETS, RACIAL SPACES AND THE ROLE OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THE... |
2000 |
| Akia Fox |
Heterosexism and Internalized Racism among African Americans: the Connections and Considerations for African American Lesbians and Bisexual Women: a Clinical Psychological Perspective |
30 University of Baltimore Law Forum 69 (Spring/Summer, 2000) |
The Court of Appeals of Maryland held that even in the absence of evidence suggesting potential bias, the trial court must ask specific voir dire questions regarding racial bias when requested to do so by counsel. Hernandez v. State, 357 Md. 204, 742 A.2d 952 (1999). The court opined that a trial court's refusal to racially particularize a voir; Search Snippet: ...Trial Court Must Ask Specific Voir Dire Questions Regarding Potential Racial Bias Akia Fox Copyright (c) 2001 by University of Beltimore... |
2000 |
| Kristin E. Kandt |
Historicizing and Symbolizing a Racial Ethnic Identity: Lessons for Coalition Building with a Social Justice Agenda |
8 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 753 (2000) |
FOREWORD. 753 I. INTRODUCTION. 754 II. THE STORY OF ALMA BRIDWELL WHITE'S EARLY LIFE, BREAKING OUT OF HER PRISON WALLS. . 758 A. From Prison to a Desire to Preach. 761 B. Alma's Marriage and her Return to Prison . 765 III. FROM PREACHING TO THE PILLAR OF FIRE, RELIGION LIBERATES ALMA WHITE FROM HER PRISON . 765 IV. Balancing Political,; Search Snippet: ...IN THE NAME OF GOD; AN AMERICAN STORY OF FEMINISM, RACISM, AND RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE: THE STORY OF ALMA BRIDWELL WHITE. Kristin... |
2000 |
| Mary Romero |
History, Legal Scholarship, and Latcrit Theory: the Case of Racial Transformations circa the Spanish American War, 1896-1900 |
33 U.C. Davis Law Review 1599 (Summer, 2000) |
In the late 1960s and 1970s the civil rights and antiwar movements splintered into an array of groups grounded in identity politics. A quarter of a century later, concern for inclusion, diversity, and difference continues to dominate progressive literature. Although groups centering on discrete identities struggled to find a rallying point from; Search Snippet: ...the Global to the Local Afterword HISTORICIZING AND SYMBOLIZING A RACIAL ETHNIC IDENTITY: LESSONS FOR COALITION BUILDING WITH A SOCIAL JUSTICE... |
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