| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| 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... |
2000 |
| Charles R. Calleros |
In the Wake of Katrina--Racism Revealed |
34 John Marshall Law Review 281 (Fall 2000) |
Many thanks to Kevin Hopkins and Maureen Kordesh for inviting me and for organizing this conference. I'm honored to share this panel with my distinguished colleagues, Professors Austin and Robinson. As I understand Professor Austin's central thesis, many legal issues can be fully appreciated only in their social context, and specifically for; Search Snippet: ...Article IN THE SPIRIT OF REGINA AUSTIN'S CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS: EXPLORING RACIAL CONTEXT IN LEGAL METHOD, WRITING ASSIGNMENTS AND SCHOLARSHIP [FNa1] Charles... |
2000 |
| Ian F. Haney López |
Institutionalized, Legal Racism: Housing Segregation and Beyond |
109 Yale Law Journal 1717 (June, 2000) |
I. Introduction. 1721 II. Discrimination in the Selection of Los Angeles County Grand Jurors. 1730 A. Discretion Codified. 1730 B. Judicial Practice: Friends and Neighbors. 1732 C. Inside the Circle. 1735 D. Outside the Circle. 1737 E. Extraracial Discrimination. 1740 F. Discrimination by the Numbers. 1741 G. Jury Discrimination and the; Search Snippet: ...YALE LAW JOURNAL Yale Law Journal June, 2000 Article INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: JUDICIAL CONDUCT AND A NEW THEORY OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Ian F. Haney López [FNd1] Copyright (c) 2000 Yale... |
2000 |
| Shane T. Stansbury |
Making the Case for Atonement in "Post-Racial America" |
31 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 403 (Spring, 2000) |
The federal government will soon complete the final decennial census of the century. This year alone, Congress will spend approximately $4.5 billion to achieve an accurate enumeration of the American population. Despite the intensity of its efforts, however, the government will inevitably fall short of its ambitions. Since 1790, when the first... |
2000 |
| Leonard M. Baynes |
Parental Ratification: Legal Manifestations of Cultural Authenticity in Cross-Racial Adoption |
52 Administrative Law Review 979 (Summer 2000) |
Introduction. 980 I. Media Stereotypes. 981 II. Affirmative Action Jurisprudence. 986 A. Diversity of Voices: Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC. 986 B. Past Discrimination: Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena. 988 C. Racial Stereotypes Used to Justify Diversity: Wittmer v. Peters. 992 D. Racial Stereotypes Used Not to Justify Diversity: Lutheran; Search Snippet: ...Law Review Summer 2000 Recent Developments Telecommunications Symposium PARADOXES OF RACIAL STEREOTYPES, DIVERSITY AND PAST DISCRIMINATION IN ESTABLISHING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN... |
2000 |
| Evett L. Simmons, President National Bar Association |
Passing and Trespassing in the Academy: on Whiteness as Property and Racial Performance as Political Speech |
14-DEC NBA National Bar Association Magazine Mag. 5 (December, 2000) |
On October 27, 2000 in Birmingham, Alabama the National Bar Association held the Twelfth Annual Wiley A. Branton Issues Symposium and Awards Luncheon. The Symposium topic this year was Removing Racism from the Cities on the Road to Economic Empowerment. Birmingham was selected as the site to discuss this most important topic because once; Search Snippet: ...National Bar Association Magazine December, 2000 Preamble PARTNERING TO OVERCOME RACISM ON THE ROAD TO ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT Evett L. Simmons President... |
2000 |
| John Tehranian |
Persecutory Agency in the Racial Prerequisite Cases: Islam, Christianity, and Martyrdom in United States V. Cartozian |
109 Yale Law Journal 817 (January, 2000) |
Though in many natural objects, whiteness refiningly enhances beauty, as if imparting some special virtue of its own, as in marbles, japonicas, and pearls; and though various nations have in some way recognised a certain royal pre-eminence in this hue; even the barbaric, grand old kings of Pegu placing the title Lord of the White Elephant above... |
2000 |
| William C. Kidder |
Posner on Duncan Kennedy and Racial Difference: White Authority in the Legal Academy |
12 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 1 (2000) |
At nearly every stage of their development women attorneys incorrectly believed that once they themselves had proven their competence, acceptance for women in the next generation would be assured. . . . What they failed to realize . . . was that they long ago had proven their competence and that there really were unspoken, undefined, invisible; Search Snippet: ...UNMASKING GENDER BIAS ON THE LSAT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RACIAL DIVERSITY IN LEGAL EDUCATION William C. Kidder [FNd1] Copyright ©... |
2000 |
| Abraham Abramovsky , Jonathan I. Edelstein |
Pretextual Traffic Stops: Protecting Our Streets or Racist Police Tactics? |
63 Albany Law Review 725 (2000) |
In the last two years of the twentieth century, the practice of racial profiling--targeting individuals for police investigation based on their race alone--came to the forefront of public consciousness in New York and New Jersey. In New Jersey, the foundations of law enforcement were shaken in 1999 after state police commanders admitted to using; Search Snippet: ...Penal Jurisprudence in Punishment and Treatment Article PRETEXT STOPS AND RACIAL PROFILING AFTER WHREN V. UNITED STATES: THE NEW YORK AND... |
2000 |
| Christopher C. Faille |
Race, Space, and the Nation-state: Racial Recognition and the Prospects for Substantive Equality under Anti-discrimination Law in France and Germany |
47-FEB Federal Lawyer 48 (February, 2000) |
In 1938, in its famous Carolene Products footnote, the U.S. Supreme Court stressed its concern with protecting political processes. It suggested that legislation which restricts those political processes which can ordinarily be expected to bring about the repeal of undesirable legislation, is to be subjected to more exacting judicial scrutiny; Search Snippet: ...$50.00 (CLOTH), $18.00 (PAPER). The Appearance of Equality: Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting, and the Supreme Court by Christopher M. Burke... |
2000 |
| John E. Hunter and Frank L. Schmidt , Michigan State University, University of Iowa |
Racial and Gender Diversity on State Courts |
6 Psychology, Public Policy, And Law 151 (March, 2000) |
The study of potential racial and gender bias in individual test items is a major research area today. The fact that research has established that total scores on ability and achievement tests are predictively unbiased raises the question of whether there is in fact any real bias at the item level. No theoretical rationale for expecting such bias... |
2000 |
| Darren D. McClain |
Racial Discrimination and Baker V. Carr |
30 Stetson Law Review 755 (Fall, 2000) |
This country begins the twenty-first century with the legal presumption that everyone is entitled to equal opportunities to gain access to the workplace. Yet, numerous sectors of the workplace remain dominated by a single group. Disparities in the workplace are ever present. However, some courts now apply the very statute that entitled minorities... |
2000 |
| William B. Moffitt |
Racial Discrimination in Business Transactions |
24-MAY Champion Champion 9 (May, 2000) |
Just after midnight on February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an immigrant from Senegal, stood outside his New York City apartment building and watched, in horror, as four white policemen in plain clothes rushed toward him with guns drawn. His response was both sensible and reasoned - he pulled out his wallet to provide identification. The four men; Search Snippet: ...2000 WL 33967529 CHAMPION Champion May, 2000 Column President's Column RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA William B. Moffitt Copyright © 2000 by National... |
2000 |
| Sherrilyn A. Ifill |
Racial Diversity, Well-being on Agenda for this Year |
57 Washington and Lee Law Review 405 (Spring, 2000) |
The lack of racial diversity on our nation's courts threatens both the quality and legitimacy of judicial decision-making. Traditional arguments emphasizing the role model value of black judges and the need for black judges to help promote public confidence in the justice system have turned our attention away from the most important... |
2000 |
| Victor C. Romero |
Racial Profiling: Truth and Consequences |
6 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 195 (Fall 2000) |
This Essay will focus on racial profiling not just in the way many people think about the term--that is, with respect to stopping motorists for traffic violations based solely on their race, so-called Driving While Mexican or Driving While Black--but also in the context of affirmative action--namely, using race as a factor in employment and... |
2000 |
| Rhoda J. Yen |
Racial Subjugation by Another Name? Using the Links in the School-to-prison Pipeline to Reassess State Takeover District Performance |
7 Asian Law Journal L.J. 1 (December, 2000) |
On December 14, 1992, 19-year-old Wayne Lo stormed the campus of Simon's Rock College of Bard, an elite private institution for gifted students, and began a twenty-minute shooting spree that left two people dead and four wounded. In the past seven years, I have followed the news coverage of the Wayne Lo case with increasing interest, not only; Search Snippet: ...33278175 ASIAN LAW JOURNAL Asian Law Journal December, 2000 Article RACIAL STEREOTYPING OF ASIANS AND ASIAN AMERICANS AND ITS EFFECT ON... |
2000 |
| Robert Millar |
Racism Knocking at the Door: the Use of Criminal Background Checks in Rental Housing |
8 CommLaw Conspectus 311 (Summer 2000) |
Racist! It is a dirty word. But over the last year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or the Commission) has characterized the buying practices of radio advertisers in the United States as racist and racially discriminatory. The Commission's accusations are based on findings of a survey released in 1999 that indicate minority-formatted; Search Snippet: ...2000 WL 1580246 COMMLAW CONSPECTUS CommLaw Conspectus Summer 2000 Comment RACISM IS IN THE AIR: THE FCC'S MANDATE TO PROTECT MINORITIES... |
2000 |
| Kristen M. Jasket |
Radicalism, Racism and Affirmative Action: in Defense of a Historical Approach |
24 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 509 (2000) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 510 II. BACKGROUND. 511 III. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY. 519 IV. PROPOSED LEGISLATION: THE HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT OF . 1999524 V. ANALYSIS. 527 VI. CONCLUSION. 539 Bigotry and hatred are corrosive elements in any society, but especially in a country as diverse and open as ours. We need to make clear that a bigoted attack on one or; Search Snippet: ...SETON HALL LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL Seton Hall Legislative Journal 2000 Notes RACISTS, SKINHEADS AND GAY-BASHERS BEWARE: CONGRESS JOINS THE BATTLE AGAINST... |
2000 |
| Jeffrey Ghannam |
Repatriation of Sacred Native American Cultural Belongings from Historical Racism |
86-Nov ABA Journal 38 (November, 2000) |
For years, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall pored over handwritten French, Spanish and English slave documents in a massive effort to document Afro-Louisiana history. With stunning authority, she untangled a history of African slave names, genders, ages, occupations, illnesses, family relationships, ethnicity, places of origin, prices paid by slave owners,; Search Snippet: ...Resolved May be key to this Country's Continuing Search for Racial Harmony. Jeffrey Ghannam [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2000 by American Bar... |
2000 |
| Delores D. Jones-Brown |
Should the Government Be Allowed to Engage in Racial, Sexual or Other Acts of Discrimination? |
203-JUN New Jersey Lawyer, the Magazine 51 (June, 2000) |
The use of racial/ethnic profiles by governmental agents is a violation of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 1, paragraphs 1 and 5 of the current constitution for the state of New Jersey. Given this fact, the question Should racial profiling be a crime? is somewhat redundant, since such practices clearly deny... |
2000 |
| Linda S. Gottfredson , University of Delaware |
Skin Deep: Minorities Seek Relief from Racial Profiling |
6 Psychology, Public Policy, And Law 129 (March, 2000) |
Recent bans on racial preferences in some states have increased the political pressure to abandon cognitive testing to raise rates of minority hiring and college admissions. However, general skills gaps, not tests, are the major remaining impediment to racial parity in outcomes. Data on the size, stability, and functional importance of racial gaps; Search Snippet: ...The Dilemma of Group Differences SKILLS GAPS, NOT TESTS, MAKE RACIAL PROPORTIONALITY IMPOSSIBLE Linda S. Gottfredson [FNa1] University of Delaware Copyright... |
2000 |
| Brandon Garrett |
State Action |
100 Columbia Law Review 1815 (November, 2000) |
Plaintiffs challenging racial profiling must contend with the Supreme Court's decision in City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, which restricted standing for injunctive relief against government officials. This Note articulates a framework for assessing standing for injunctive relief based on case law following Lyons: Plaintiff must demonstrate a; Search Snippet: ...Review November, 2000 Notes STANDING WHILE BLACK: DISTINGUISHING LYONS IN RACIAL PROFILING CASES Brandon Garrett Copyright (c) 2000 Directors of The... |
2000 |
| Kenneth J. Bartschi |
The Appearance of Equity: Racial Gerrymandering, Redistricting and the Supreme Court, by Christopher M. Burke (Greenwood Press, 1999) 224 Pp. $59.95 |
74 Connecticut Bar Journal 430 (December, 2000) |
What does fair representation mean? Don't ask Christopher Burke. Although his book explores this issue in great depth, he makes no pretense of offering an answer to this question. Nor does he pretend to know how to measure fair representation or provide a remedy if it is lacking. Instead, Burke provides a scholarly analysis of the Voting Rights... |
2000 |
| Mark C. Rogers |
The Audacity of Protecting Racist Speech under the National Labor Relations Act |
23 Suffolk Transnational Law Review 539 (Summer, 2000) |
A history of Ireland often entails a reference to its long-standing tradition as an emigrant nation. For hundreds of years, the people of Ireland emigrated across the world in search of better economic and social conditions. Ireland's recent transformation, however, from an emigrant to an immigrant society, now overshadows this amazing facet of; Search Snippet: ...2000 Note THE ASYLUM PROCESS IN IRELAND: A REFLECTION OF RACIST AND XENOPHOBIC SENTIMENTS? Mark C. Rogers Copyright (c) 2000 Suffolk... |
2000 |