| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year |
| Karen L. Ross |
Combining Proactive and Reactive Methods to Address Racial Disparities in Incarceration Rates |
21 Seton Hall Legislative Journal 141 (1997) |
I. INTRODUCTION. 141 II. AN HISTORICAL OVERVIEW. 144 A. The Social Climate. 144 B. The Legal Issues. 147 III. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. 150 IV. PROPOSALS TO REPEAL TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964. 153 A. Richard A. Epstein's Free Market Analysis. 154 B. Derrick E. Bell's Racial Preference Licensing Act. 160 V; Search Snippet: ...HALL LEGISLATIVE JOURNAL Seton Hall Legislative Journal 1997 Note COMBATTING RACISM: WOULD REPEALING TITLE VII BRING EQUALITY TO ALL? Karen L... |
1997 |
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Constitutional Law-equal Protection-voting Rights Act of 1965-Racial Redistricting and Gerrymandering-election Discrimination |
110 Harvard Law Review 1167 (March, 1997) |
Recent political efforts to roll back, or even eliminate, government affirmative action programs have generated increasingly strident debate and ultimately may result in divergent, state-by-state approaches to the issue. The democratic debate has been sustained in large part by continued uncertainty about the constitutionality of these programs on; Search Snippet: ...Case CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--EQUAL PROTECTION--SEVENTH CIRCUIT PERMITS USE OF RACIAL CLASSIFICATIONS IN PROMOTION DECISIONS AT A PRISON BOOT CAMP.--WITTMER... |
1997 |
| Ross I. Booher |
Constitutional Law-fourteenth Amendment Right to Equal Protection-criminal Defendant's Racially Discriminatory Exercise of Peremptory Challenges |
64 Tennessee Law Review 497 (Winter, 1997) |
In 1992, Cheryl Hopwood, a white middle-aged working mother, applied for admission to the University of Texas Law School (law school). Like most other institutions of higher learning in the United States, the law school had an affirmative action admissions program which gave significant preferences to members of select racial and ethnic minority; Search Snippet: ...1997 Case Note CONSTITUTIONAL LAW--FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE-- RACIAL PREFERENCES IN COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ADMISSIONS Hopwood v. Texas, 78... |
1997 |
| Christopher L. Eisgruber |
Demography of the Legal Profession and Racial Disparities in Sentencing |
50 Vanderbilt Law Review 347 (March, 1997) |
I. Introduction. 347 II. The Constitutionality of Majority-Black Districts. 349 III. The Possibility of Assembly Backlash. 352 IV. The Difference Between Democracy and Majoritarianism. 354 V. Racial Equality and American Politics. 356 VI. Conclusion. 359; Search Snippet: ...Symposium: Defining Democracy for the Next Century DEMOCRACY, MAJORITARIANISM, AND RACIAL EQUALITY: A RESPONSE TO PROFESSOR KARLAN Christopher L. Eisgruber [FNa1... |
1997 |
| Keith Aoki |
Disabling Racial Repetition |
33 California Western Law Review 185 (Spring 1997) |
I have been thinking about Bob Chang's radical democracy project that he has been working on recently and am very honored and grateful to be among the persons invited to participate in this Symposium. Allow me to give you a brief bit of biographical information that bears on some of the questions which arise in connection with a Symposium entitled,; Search Snippet: ...1997 Symposium: Towards a Radical and Plural Democracy DIRECT DEMOCRACY, RACIAL GROUP AGENCY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT LAW, AND RESIDENTIAL RACIAL SEGREGATION: SOME REFLECTIONS ON RADICAL AND PLURAL DEMOCRACY Keith Aoki... |
1997 |
| Thomas E. Wood |
Does it Matter If My Mediator Looks like Me? The Impact of Racially Matching Participants and Mediators |
24 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 969 (Summer, 1997) |
On November 5, 1996, the California electorate adopted Proposition 209, otherwise known as the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI), by a margin of 54-46 percent. For the purposes of the present paper, the key provisions of Proposition 209, which now comprises Article I, Section 31 of the state constitution, are as follows: Prop 209:(a) The; Search Snippet: ...POLITICAL RIGHTS UNDER THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT THAN IT GRANTS TO RACIAL MINORITIES?: A RESPONSE TO VIKRAM D. AMAR AND EVAN H... |
1997 |
| Jim Chen |
Employee Free Speech Rights in the Workplace: Balancing the First Amendment Against Racist Speech by Police Officers |
68 University of Colorado Law Review 1123 (Fall 1997) |
Bakke has come of age. In the nineteen years since Justice Lewis Powell proclaimed that diversity clearly is a constitutionally permissible goal for an institution of higher education, Bakke has become a transformative, even religious experience for champions of race-based educational affirmative action. For Michael A. Olivas, the survival of; Search Snippet: ...Fall 1997 Affirmative Action: Diversity of Opinion EMBRYONIC THOUGHTS ON RACIAL IDENTITY AS NEW PROPERTY Jim Chen [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1997... |
1997 |
| Daniel Kevin |
Environmental Racism and Locally Undesirable Land Uses: a Critique of Environmental Justice Theories and Remedies |
8 Villanova Environmental Law Journal 121 (1997) |
THE subject of environmental justice has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Environmental justice advocates allege that due to environmental racism, locally undesirable environmental land uses (LULUs) such as hazardous waste facilities, solid waste disposal sites and contaminated industrial sites are disproportionately placed in... |
1997 |
| Diane Schwartz |
Epa Steps in to Clear the Air |
12 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 409 (1997) |
Earth Day 1970 represents a pivotal time period for the environmental movement in America. Heightened awareness of environmental degradation motivated mostly caucasian activists to focus on natural resource preservation. However, this movement failed to address how environmental harm was disproportionately impacting communities of color in the; Search Snippet: ...LAW AND LITIGATION Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 1997 ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: USING LEGAL AND SOCIAL MEANS TO ACHIEVE ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE Diane... |
1997 |
| Terry Carter |
Equal Justice |
83-NOV ABA Journal 32 (November, 1997) |
Students in the Environmental Law Clinic at Tulane Law School recently got an in-depth lesson in political science when Louisiana's governor bellowed on television that they were being misguided by big, fat law professors drawing big, fat paychecks. For the record, clinic director Robert Kuehn stands 6-feet-1-inch tall and weighs 170 pounds,; Search Snippet: ...1997 News EPA STEPS IN TO CLEAR THE AIR Environmental Racism Charged in Challenge to Location of Chemical Plant Terry Carter... |
1997 |
| Bernard K. Ham |
Executive Order 13769 and America's Longstanding Practice of Institutionalized Racial Discrimination Towards Refugees and Asylum Seekers |
7 Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal 577 (Winter 1997) |
The exclusionary nature of zoning has long been acknowledged and accepted by the courts. The very notion of zoning allows a municipality to exclude those things or uses that it deems undesirable. In the United States, local governments, deriving their zoning power from states' enabling legislation, have historically exercised exclusive domain over... |
1997 |
| Jeffrey H. Rutherford |
Foreword: "Separate but Equal" in Prison: Johnson V. California and Common Sense Racism |
15 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice Ineq. 1 (Winter 1997) |
It is not uncommon for a person to assume that his or her race is fixed and predetermined. People often think of themselves as being born into a certain race: that their race is genetically determined and is therefore free of social, economic and cultural influence. While they may recognize that there are social and economic implications attached; Search Snippet: ...Our Private Obsession, Our Public Sin FOREWORD: Reexamining Race and Racial Identity in the United States Jeffrey H. Rutherford [FNa] Copyright... |
1997 |
| Richard Thompson Ford |
Geometry and Geography: Racial Gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act |
49 Stanford Law Review 1365 (July, 1997) |
This article contrasts the constitutional treatment of two types of territorially defined political subdivisions: local governments and electoral districts. The Supreme Court treats racially segregated electoral districts as constitutionally suspect while generally insulating more severely segregated local governments from constitutional scrutiny.... |
1997 |
| Roscoe C. Howard, Jr. |
Getting Parents Involved in Racially Integrated Schools |
31 New England Law Review 831 (Spring 1997) |
Education . . . beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men--the balance-wheel of the social machinery. . . . (I)t gives each man the independence and the means . . . by which he can resist the selfishness of other men. It does more better than to disarm the poor of their hostility towards the rich; it; Search Snippet: ...GETTING IT WRONG: HOPWOOD v. TEXAS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR RACIAL DIVERSITY IN LEGAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE Roscoe C. Howard, Jr... |
1997 |
| Charles Lewis Nier, III |
Guilty by Implicit Racial Bias: the Guilty/not Guilty Implicit Association Test |
16 Dickinson Journal of International Law 149 (Fall 1997) |
We declare our right on this earth to be a man, to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of human beings in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary. Malcolm X In 1959 the image of Malcolm X burst onto white America in a Mike Wallace television... |
1997 |
| Jeremy Moeser |
Hospital Flight from Minority Communities: How Our Existing Civil Rights Framework Fosters Racial Inequality in Healthcare |
48 Mercer Law Review 941 (Winter 1997) |
In Hopwood v. Texas, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that the University of Texas (UT) School of Law's admissions program, which gave preference to African-Americans and Mexican-Americans, violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause. For the 1992 school year, the University of Texas School of Law processed; Search Snippet: ...Casenote HOPWOOD v. TEXAS: THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR RACIAL PREFERENCE PROGRAMS IN HIGHER EDUCATION Jeremy Moeser Copyright (c) 1997... |
1997 |
| Christopher David Ruiz Cameron |
How the Kansas Courts Have Permitted and May Remedy Racial Funding Disparities in the Aftermath of Brown |
85 California Law Review 1347 (October, 1997) |
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination in employment based on, among other things, national origin. The adoption by employers of policies requiring employees to speak only English in the workplace would appear to constitute national origin discrimination against bilingual Latinos, whose Spanish-speaking ability is central... |
1997 |
| Noel C. Richardson |
Is There a Legal Right to Free Choice of Ethno-Racial Identity? Legal and Political Difficulties in Defining Minority Communities and Membership Boundaries |
23 New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement 183 (Winter 1997) |
In October 1995, the Sentencing Project released a report concluding that one of every three young black men is now under the supervision of the criminal justice system. The report followed the organization's 1990 report indicating that one in four young black men was under criminal justice supervision. The conclusions of the Sentencing Project are; Search Snippet: ...COMMUNITY? AN ANALYSIS OF THE LINK BETWEEN CONFINEMENT, CAPITAL, AND RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES Noel C. Richardson Copyright (c) 1997... |
1997 |
| Sherrilyn A. Ifill |
Judicial Embrace of Racial Gerrymandering Cases |
39 Boston College Law Review 95 (December, 1997) |
Despite dramatic gains in the legislative arena in the past 20 years, racial diversity on state courts remains a much-lauded but seemingly elusive goal. Only 3.8% of all state court judges are African American. Among state trial court judges, only 4.1% are African American. In jurisdictions with large African American populations, the figures are; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Boston College Law Review December, 1997 JUDGING THE JUDGES: RACIAL DIVERSITY, IMPARTIALITY AND REPRESENTATION ON STATE TRIAL COURTS Sherrilyn A... |
1997 |
| Scot Wortley, John Hagan, Ross Macmillan |
Just Desserts?: Public Accommodations, Religious Accommodations, Racial Equality, and Gay Rights |
31 Law and Society Review 637 (1997) |
Sociologists have long been interested in how reactions to deviance influence social order and consensus. However, classic statements on this subject present contrasting hypotheses. This article extends previous work by examining how the extensive media coverage of an interracial homicide influences public attitudes toward the criminal justice; Search Snippet: ...Law and Society Review 1997 Article JUST DES(S)ERTS? THE RACIAL POLARIZATION OF PERCEPTIONS OF CRIMINAL INJUSTICE Scot Wortley John Hagan... |
1997 |
| Ming W. Chin |
Keynote Address: Maintaining Hope in the Struggle Against the Constitutional Tolerance of Racial Discrimination |
4 Asian Law Journal 181 (May, 1997) |
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I would like to thank Asian Law Journal for its gracious invitation to speak with you today. At a conference called Diversity and Unity in America at the University of Texas, William Raspberry, a columnist for the Washington Post, was asked the following question: Are race relationships getting better or; Search Snippet: ...1997 Speech KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FAIRNESS OR BIAS?: A SYMPOSIUM ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC COMPOSITION AND ATTITUDES IN THE JUDICIARY Ming W... |
1997 |
| Enid Trucios-Haynes |
Latinos and the Criminal Justice System: Overcoming Racial Stigma from Trial to Incarceration |
4 Asian Law Journal 39 (May, 1997) |
The author acknowledges the pioneering effect Professor Neil Gotanda's work has had on the discussion of racial discourse to include the racial oppression of Asian/Pacific Islander Americans. According to the author, Professor Gotanda's analytical model to examine the social practice of race contains three elements. Moreover, Professor Gotanda's; Search Snippet: ...Gotanda LATINO/AS IN THE MIX: APPLYING GOTANDA'S MODELS OF RACIAL CLASSIFICATION AND RACIAL STRATIFICATION Enid Trucios-Haynes [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1997 Asian Law... |
1997 |
| Anders Walker |
Legislative Study: Eliminating Racial Profiling in Minnesota |
47 Duke Law Journal 399 (November, 1997) |
Shortly after the Supreme Court of the United States invalidated school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, Mississippi Circuit Judge Tom P. Brady delivered a speech to a chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution on the decision's consequences. Brady's speech, later published and popularized throughout the South, declared that the; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal November, 1997 Note LEGISLATING VIRTUE: HOW SEGREGATIONISTS DISGUISED RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AS MORAL REFORM FOLLOWING BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION... |
1997 |
| Anthony Bertelli |
Mary Frances Berry, the Pig Farmer's Daughter and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present, |
5 Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the Law 97 (Fall 1997) |
In coining the term, looking to the bottom, Mari Matsuda asserted that [t]he technique of imagining oneself black and poor in some hypothetical world is less effective than studying the actual experience of black poverty and listening to those who have done so. I view this as a metaphorical invitation for social scientists, such as myself, to; Search Snippet: ...Journal of Social Policy and the Law Fall 1997 MARKETING RACISM: THE IMPERIALISM OF RATIONALITY, CRITICAL RACE THEORY, AND SOME INTERDISCIPLINARY... |
1997 |
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Microclimates of Racial Meaning: Historical Racial Violence and Environmental Impacts |
14 New York Law School Journal of Human Rights 47 (Symposium, 1997) |
Michael Meyers made an oral presentation at the Symposium. However, due to technical problems with the transcription, he has declined the opportunity to include an edited version of his transcribed remarks in this volume; Search Snippet: ...A stanch integrationist, Meyers opposes Afrocentrism, and all forms of racial segregation and idiocies that separate human beings on flimsy bases... |
1997 |
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National Survey Suggests Racial Disparity in Police Use of Force |
49 Rutgers Law Review 979 (Spring 1997) |
Cherry Hill, New Jersey HONORABLE THEODORE Z. DAVIS: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am Ted Davis, a member of the Superior Court of the State of New Jersey and Chairman of this task force has been ongoing for several years here in New Jersey. The Chief Justice has communicated with me this morning that he'll be; Search Snippet: ...N. Wilentz NATIONAL CONSORTIUM OF TASK FORCES AND COMMISSIONS ON RACIAL AND ETHNIC BIAS IN THE COURTS Copyright (c) 1997 Rutgers... |
1997 |
| Jeffrey Willis |
Ninth Circuit Lets Minority Company Sue for Racial Discrimination |
34-NOV Arizona Attorney 42 (November, 1997) |
Convening in Portland, Oregon August 17-19, the Judge and Lawyer Representatives of the Ninth Circuit devoted the two days of the Annual Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference to examining issues related to jury communications, litigation efficiency and racial, religious and ethnic fairness in the Circuit. Special guest speakers included Associate U.S; Search Snippet: ...Brief NINTH CIRCUIT CONFERENCE STUDIES JURY COMMUNICATIONS, LITIGATION EFFICIENCY AND RACIAL, RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC FAIRNESS Jeffrey Willis Copyright (c) 1997 by... |
1997 |
| Darren Lenard Hutchinson |
Overcoming Environmental Racism: a Lesson from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
29 Connecticut Law Review 561 (Winter, 1997) |
i'm clear about why i am and how i ami cannot extricate the lesbian from my soul no more than i could the chicanai have always been both. I was mute, tongue-tied, burdened by shadows and silence. Now I speak and my burden is lightened lifted free. In the poem Tongues Untied, Marlon T. Riggs, a black gay filmmaker and writer, recounts childhood; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW Connecticut Law Review Winter, 1997 OUT YET UNSEEN: A RACIAL CRITIQUE OF GAY AND LESBIAN LEGAL THEORY AND POLITICAL DISCOURSE... |
1997 |
| Richard H. Pildes |
Prison for You. Profit for Me. Systemic Racism Effectively Bars Blacks from Participation in Newly-legal Marijuana Industry |
106 Yale Law Journal 2505 (June, 1997) |
Three years after recognizing a new cause of action for racial redistricting in Shaw v. Reno, the Supreme Court's voting rights jurisprudence still teeters on the brink of legal incoherence and political chaos. Concerned about the new extremes to which self-interested redistricting has been taken in the 1990s--particularly, but not exclusively, for... |
1997 |
| Molly Townes O'Brien |
Problems Without a Process: Using an Action Dialogue to Manage Racial Tensions |
64 Tennessee Law Review 359 (Winter, 1997) |
C1-3Table of Contents I. Introduction. 359 II. An Education for Citizenship. 365 III. The Overlooked History of the Private School Voucher Program Idea. 374 A. Early Years of the Private School Tuition Voucher. 374 B. The Middle Years: Transforming the Rhetoric. 385 C. The Political Revitalization of the Tuition Voucher Idea. 392 IV. The Myth of; Search Snippet: ...Winter, 1997 PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION VOUCHERS AND THE REALITIES OF RACIAL POLITICS Molly Townes O'Brien [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1997 by the... |
1997 |
| Stephen Wolf |
Race Ipsa? Racial Profiling, Terrorism and the Future |
11 Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 225 (1997) |
It is frequently asserted that race matters, and all too frequently it is demonstrated that racial discrimination continues to persist. But in a society dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, the important issue is not the fact that race sometimes matters but the question of how should race matter. How do we move toward a; Search Snippet: ...Race and the Law Student Note RACE IPSA: VOTE DILUTION, RACIAL GERRYMANDERING, AND THE PRESUMPTION OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Stephen Wolf [FNa1] Copyright (c) 1997 Thomas J. White... |
1997 |
| Robert J. Sampson, Janet L. Lauritsen |
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Employer-sponsored Health Coverage |
21 Crime and Justice 311 (1997) |
Although racial discrimination emerges some of the time at some stages of criminal justice processing--such as juvenile justice--there is little evidence that racial disparities result from systematic, overt bias. Discrimination appears to be indirect, stemming from the amplification of initial disadvantages over time, along with the social; Search Snippet: ...1997 WL 34674709 CRIME AND JUSTICE Crime and Justice 1997 RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN CRIME AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN THE... |
1997 |
| Larry Michael Fehr |
Racial and Ethnic Disparity and Criminal Justice: How Much Is Too Much? |
32 Gonzaga Law Review 577 (1996-1997) |
I. Introduction. 577 II. Background and Prior Research in Washington. 579 III. Study #1: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the Prosecution of Adult Felony Cases in King County. 581 A. Study Goal and Objectives. 581 B. Data Collection and Analyses. 582 C. Findings. 584 D. Prosecutorial Study Conclusions. 585 IV. Study #2: Exceptional Sentencing; Search Snippet: ...1997 Symposium Race Relations and Conflict in the United States RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING: EMPIRICAL RESEARCH OF... |
1997 |
| Robert J. Donahue |
Racial Diversity as a Compelling Governmental Interest |
30 Indiana Law Review 523 (1997) |
I have a dream today that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr. Is racial diversity a sufficient justification for affirmative action programs? More specifically, is the goal of diverse racial composition among college; Search Snippet: ...WL 555973 INDIANA LAW REVIEW Indiana Law Review 1997 Note RACIAL DIVERSITY AS A COMPELLING GOVERNMENTAL INTEREST Robert J. Donahue [FNa1... |
1997 |
| Andy Portinga |
Racial Diversity in Residential Communities: Societal Housing Patterns and a Proposal for a "Racial Inclusionary Ordinance"ddd' |
75 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 73 (Fall 1997) |
In March of 1996, the Fifth Circuit offered the latest significant judicial opinion in the battle over affirmative action. In Hopwood v. Texas, the court ruled that the University of Texas Law School violated the Equal Protection Clause by operating dual admissions systems for minority and non-minority students. With this decision, the Fifth; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW University of Detroit Mercy Law Review Fall 1997 RACIAL DIVERSITY AS A COMPELLING GOVERNMENTAL INTEREST Andy Portinga [FNa1] Copyright... |
1997 |
| Kevin R. Johnson |
Racial Horizons and Empirical Landscapes in the Post-aca World |
76 Oregon Law Review 347 (Summer 1997) |
A symposium entitled Citizenship and Its Discontents could not be more timely. The end of the twentieth century has been marked by a lengthy debate in the United States, as well as in nations around the world, on citizenship and national identity. In response to mounting concerns about changes attributed to new immigrants, Congress in 1996; Search Snippet: ...One: Race, Citizenship, and Political Community Within the Nation-State RACIAL HIERARCHY, ASIAN AMERICANS AND LATINOS AS FOREIGNERS, AND SOCIAL CHANGE... |
1997 |
| Nancy A. Denton |
Racial Identity and the State: the Dilemmas of Classification |
15 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice 83 (Winter 1997) |
The issues that Michael Omi raises in his essay regarding the inadequacy and inaccuracy of the racial/ethnic categories used by the U.S. Census Bureau are troubling to me and to many other demographers. As Omi points out, our initial response is to defend the categories and to want to preserve them so that we can continue to measure change, be it... |
1997 |
| Michael Omi |
Racial Identity Performance and Employment Discrimination Law |
15 Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice Ineq. 7 (Winter 1997) |
The February 1995 Chronicle of Higher Education featured an article on racial classification and the sciences which highlighted an interesting dilemma facing scientists in the United States. On one hand, scientists routinely use racial categories in their research and regularly make comparisons between the races with respect to health, behavior,... |
1997 |
| Sheldon M. Novick |
Racial Imbalance Feeds School-to-prison Pipeline |
22 Vermont Law Review 383 (Winter, 1997) |
These remarks are offered to express my regret that this symposium was held and that its proceedings are being published. The subject of much of the discussion was not an observable phenomenon capable of study, but a stereotyped image of the criminal, a person supposed to be different in some essential way from normal folk, an image that exists... |
1997 |
| Kristie Ann Rooney |
Racial Matching Vs. TransRacial Adoption: Proposing a Compromise in the Best Interests of Minority Children |
53 Journal of the Missouri Bar 32 (January/February, 1997) |
The debate over transracial adoption in this country has the widespread attention of both legal scholars and the media. While the term transracial adoption applies generally to any adoption in which the child is of a different race than the adoptive parents, the controversy centers around the placement of black or biracial children with white; Search Snippet: ...MISSOURI BAR Journal of the Missouri Bar January/February, 1997 RACIAL MATCHING VS. TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION: AN OVERVIEW OF THE TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION... |
1997 |
| Charles Smith |
Racism and Health Care in America: Legal Responses to Racial Disparities in the Allocation of Kidneys |
8 Stanford Law and Policy Review 61 (Summer, 1997) |
Regional and local strategies for achieving racial integration have not received much attention in academic research, institutional policy debate, or community discourse. The ambiguity of and relative unease with the term integration, particularly in the context of race relations, as well as the impact of racism itself on academics, policymakers,; Search Snippet: ...POLICY REVIEW Stanford Law and Policy Review Summer, 1997 Symposium RACISM AND COMMUNITY PLANNING: BUILDING EQUITY OR WAITING FOR EXPLOSIONS Charles... |
1997 |
| Thomas J. Nolan |
Racism in the Insanity Defense |
20 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 417 (Winter, 1997) |
Incarcerated citizens are citizens with rights. Yet too often their treatment, like that of many people accused or convicted of crimes, is inconsistent with their guaranteed liberties. Especially if they are black, they can be shut away in a prison warehouse, at great cost to the state, leaving behind families that must fend for themselves. Chief; Search Snippet: ...for All? Racial Minorities, Crime Victims, and the Local Community RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS Thomas J... |
1997 |
| George Anastaplo |
Racism, Political Correctness, and Constitutional Law: a Law School Case Study |
42 South Dakota Law Review 108 (1997) |
Soft you! A word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't. No more of that. --Othello C1-2TABLE OF CONTENTS Prologue (February 14, 1997). 109 1. Sensitive Subjects (a memorandum to the Dean, November 1, 1995). 111 2. The Use and Abuse of Perceptions' (a memorandum to the Faculty, November 7, 1995). 112 Addendum:; Search Snippet: ...Rev. 108 1997 WL 209507 South Dakota Law Review 1997 RACISM, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: A LAW SCHOOL CASE STUDY... |
1997 |
| Nelson Ebaugh |
Reflections on a Funhouse Mirror--Racist Violence, the Protection of Privilege, and the Limits of Tolerance |
33 Tulsa Law Journal 613 (Winter 1997) |
Supporters of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) should find comfort in what so decisively divides the Supreme Court in Bush v. Vera, one of its most recent racial gerrymander decisions. Until the announcement of Bush v. Vera, many commentators expressed legitimate concern that the racial gerrymander claim would roll back much of the VRA's progress. The; Search Snippet: ...Tulsa Law Journal Winter 1997 December, 1997 Note REFINING THE RACIAL GERRYMANDERING CLAIM: BUSH v. VERA Nelson Ebaugh Copyright (c) 1997... |
1997 |
| The Honorable Sharon E. Grubin, Co-Chair, The Honorable John M. Walker, Jr., Co-Chair |
Report of the Working Committees to the Second Circuit Task Force on Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts |
1997 Annual Survey of American Law L. 9 (1997) |
Preface. 11 Chapter One Introduction. 19 A. The Task Force, The Committees, and Their Methods. 19 B. Diversity. 21 C. The Objective of the Task Force Study. 22 Chapter Two A Brief Description of the Circuit and Its Caseload. 23 A. New York, Connecticut, and Vermont. 24 B. The Caseload. 25 Chapter Three A Profile of Article III Judges, Bankruptcy; Search Snippet: ...Report REPORT OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT TASK FORCE ON GENDER, RACIAL, AND ETHNIC FAIRNESS IN THE COURTS The Honorable Sharon E... |
1997 |
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Re-reading Justice Harlan's Dissent in Plessy V. Ferguson: Freedom, AntiRacism, and Citizenship |
1997 Annual Survey of American Law 117 (1997) |
BACKGROUND OF THE TASK FORCE. 124 Section I INTRODUCTION. 126 Section II A SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT. 133 A. AN OVERVIEW OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT. 133 1. Facts About the Region: Geography and Population Density. 133 2. Economic Base. 135 3. The Population. 137 B. THE COURTS OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT: WHAT IS THE CASELOAD?. 139; Search Snippet: ...WORKING COMMITTEES TO THE SECOND CIRCUIT TASK FORCE ON GENDER, RACIAL AND ETHNIC FAIRNESS IN THE COURTS Copyright (c) 1997 Annual... |
1997 |
| Jon P. Tasso |
Restraining the Heartless: Racist Speech and Minority Rights |
64 University of Chicago Law Review 349 (Winter 1997) |
In the late 1980s, Rock Against Racism, a concert organizer, had a penchant for producing noisy concerts in New York City's Central Park. The City responded by promulgating a use guideline that required concert producers in the Park to use a sound technician employed by the City's Department of Parks and Recreation. Rather than allow the City to; Search Snippet: ...RESTORING LESS-SPEECH-RESTRICTIVE ALTERNATIVES AFTER WARD V ROCK AGAINST RACISM Jon P. Tasso [FNd1] Copyright (c) 1997 University of Chicago... |
1997 |
| Reviewed by Richard Delgado |
Ronald W. Walters, the Price of Racial Reconciliation, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008. Pp. 249. $29.95 (Isbn 978-0-472-11530-3) |
75 Texas Law Review 1181 (April 1, 1997) |
Rodrigo, here I am, I announced, raising my voice over the din of the airport loudspeaker and voices of fellow passengers waiting at curbside. How kind of you to pick me up. No problem. Giannina's back home, reviewing for a midterm. Here, let me take that bag. Nice car, I said. Did you have it last time? No, it's new. We tried doing; Search Snippet: ...Texas Law Review April 1997 Book Review RODRIGO'S FIFTEENTH CHRONICLE: RACIAL MIXTURE, LATINO-CRITICAL SCHOLARSHIP, AND THE BLACK-WHITE BINARY All... |
1997 |
| Richard Fossey, J.D., Ed.D. and Elizabeth Kemper |
Shelby County V. Holder: a Critical Analysis of the Post-Racial Movement's Relationship to Bystander Denial and its Effect on Perceptions of Ongoing Discrimination in Voting |
121 West's Education Law Reporter 461 (December, 1997) |
Whether . segregation came about through the chance of historical boundaries or economic forces beyond the control of the state or whether it came about through private decisions . what matters is that it is here and must be dealt with. Connecticut Governor Lowell Weicker Forty years after the Supreme Court outlawed segregated schools in Brown v.... |
1997 |
| David Flickinger |
Standing While Black: Distinguishing Lyons in Racial Profiling Cases |
49 Stanford Law Review 381 (January, 1997) |
In Shaw v. Reno, the Supreme Court introduced a new cause of action for those challenging racially motivated redistricting plans. Its opinions in two of last Term's cases demonstrate that the Court is still struggling to refine its approach to racial gerrymandering. However, despite considerable scholarly attention, the Court has yet to define; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Stanford Law Review January, 1997 Note STANDING IN RACIAL GERRYMANDERING CASES David Flickinger [FNa] Copyright (c) 1997 Board of... |
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