| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | Keywords in Title or Summary |
| Shawn “Pepper” Roussel |
THE CARROT IS THE STICK: FOOD AS A WEAPON OF SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION FOR BLACK CONSUMERS AND THE DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF BLACK FARMERS |
36 Journal of Environmental Law & Litigation 129 (2021) |
Introduction. 129 I. The Confidence of a Mediocre White Guy: Andrew Johnson's Tenure. 133 II. Making It Right: Freedmen's Bureau and Other Failed Experiments. 137 III. Refugees in Their Own Land: Black Americans. 139 IV. Name That Oppression: Food. 141 V. Colonizers Gonna Colonize: Native American Land Dispossession. 145 VI. There's No Such Thing... |
2021 |
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| Richard Ariel |
THE FIRST AMENDMENT IMPLICATIONS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP'S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON DIVERSITY TRAINING |
56-SUM Procurement Lawyer 11 (Summer, 2021) |
Following the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in March and May 2020, respectively, mass protests against police brutality and systemic racism erupted across the United States. Following this period of civil unrest, a multitude of companies, many of which were federal contractors, put a focus on diversity and inclusiveness training,... |
2021 |
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| Nicole A. Cofer |
THE IMPLICIT FOUR-LETTER WORD CONTINUED |
2021-SPG West Virginia Lawyer 42 (Spring, 2021) |
During these times of political unrest and division in our nation, it is more important than ever that we all look inward to be cognizant of our own internal beliefs and issues. We need to ask ourselves are there any thoughts, attitudes or fears that are stemming from a knowing or unknowing place of hatred, ignorance, misinformation and/or... |
2021 |
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| Dr. Angélica Guevara |
THE NEED TO REIMAGINE DISABILITY RIGHTS LAW BECAUSE THE MEDICAL MODEL OF DISABILITY FAILS US ALL |
2021 Wisconsin Law Review 269 (2021) |
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. --Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1 Disability is not a personal problem, but rather a social reaction to natural human variation and susceptibility to life circumstances. Current disability antidiscrimination law has been ineffective in overcoming this misleading... |
2021 |
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| Anthony Michael Kreis |
THE NEW REDEEMERS |
55 Georgia Law Review 1483 (Summer, 2021) |
This Article is about the long arc of a Second Redemption. A new life to the politics of racial grievance surfaced in the wake of a diversifying polity, a decline of rural power, and a Black man's rise to the American presidency. And that reinvigorated force was the linchpin of Donald Trump's ascendency to power. Trump was a part of a broader... |
2021 |
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| Rachel D. Godsil, Sarah E. Waldeck |
THE NEW TIPPING POINT: DISRUPTIVE POLITICS AND HABITUATING EQUALITY |
70 Emory Law Journal 1507 (2021) |
This Essay argues that the events of 2020 opened a window of political opportunity to implement policies aimed at dismantling structural injustice and systemic racism. Building on the work of philosopher Charles Mills and political scientist Clarissa Rile Hayward, we argue that the Black Lives Matter Movement constituted the disruptive politics... |
2021 |
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| Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh |
THE POWER OF L.A.C.E. |
81-APR Oregon State Bar Bulletin 62 (April, 2021) |
According to the latest report from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), women and people of color continue to be well represented in law school and summer associate positions. Yet, women of color leave law firms at higher rates than their white male counterparts and, as a result, comprise less than 2 percent of law firm partners.... |
2021 |
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| Bennett Capers |
THE RACIAL ARCHITECTURE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE |
74 SMU Law Review 405 (Summer, 2021) |
One of the pleasures of contributing to symposia--especially symposia where each contribution is brief--is the ability to engage in new explorations, test new ideas, and offer new provocations. I do that now in this essay about race, architecture, and criminal justice. I begin by discussing how race is imbricated in the architecture of courthouses,... |
2021 |
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| Kendra Simpson |
THE RACIAL TENSION BETWEEN UNDERPRESCRIPTION AND OVERPRESCRIPTION OF PAIN MEDICATION AMID THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC |
45 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 129 (2021) |
America is in the midst of an opioid crisis. However, unlike prior addiction epidemics, the victims are mostly white. Even in the face of that fact, doctors often discount the pain experienced by African American patients and prescribe patients weaker opioids and lower doses of opioids, leading to prolonged pain. This article attributes at least... |
2021 |
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| Audra L. Savage |
THE RELIGION OF RACE: THE SUPREME COURT AS PRIESTS OF RACIAL POLITICS |
2021 Utah Law Review 569 (2021) |
The tumultuous summer of 2020 opened the eyes of many Americans, leading to a general consensus on one issue--racism still exists. This Article offers a new descriptive account of America's history that can contextualize the zeitgeist of racial politics. It argues that the Founding Fathers created a national civil religion based on racism when they... |
2021 |
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| Kathryn Stanchi |
THE RHETORIC OF RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT |
62 Boston College Law Review 1251 (April, 2021) |
Introduction. 1252 I. Methodology. 1255 II. Doctrinal Theoretical Overview. 1257 III. The Categories and Rhetorical Analysis. 1264 A. Calling Out the Court's Complicity in Racism. 1267 1. The Five Strong References Calling Out the Court's Racism. 1269 2. The Eight Weak Calling-Out References. 1273 B. Pointing Out Racism Without Implicating the... |
2021 |
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| Lorelei Lee |
THE ROOTS OF "MODERN DAY SLAVERY": THE PAGE ACT AND THE MANN ACT |
52 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 1199 (Spring, 2021) |
Usage of the phrase modern day slavery to describe human trafficking, especially sex trafficking, is widespread despite work by numerous scholars and activists to point out how such usage harms attempts to remedy both slavery and trafficking. In order to more clearly recognize the continuing harms of this usage, it is imperative that we know its... |
2021 |
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| Dorothy A. Brown |
THE SOUTH BRONX HAS SOMETHING TO SAY: SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTE |
72 South Carolina Law Review 617 (Spring, 2021) |
My book, The Whiteness of Wealth, was recently published by Crown. It looks at how systemic racism and federal tax policies compound our racial wealth gap. My book is based on my research that began with an invitation in the mid-1990s from Karen Brown and Mary Louise Fellows, who were editing a book called Taxing America. My chapter, entitled The... |
2021 |
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| Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
THE TRAUMA OF AWAKENING TO RACISM: DID THE TRAGIC KILLING OF GEORGE FLOYD RESULT IN CULTURAL TRAUMA FOR WHITES? |
58 Houston Law Review 817 (Symposium, 2021) |
The act of witnessing the killing of George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old, African-American father, brother, partner, and son, at the hands of the police caused many white individuals to experience an epiphany about racism, specifically structural racism, in the United States. Following the horrific killing of George Floyd, many white people began to... |
2021 |
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| Miriam Mack |
THE WHITE SUPREMACY HYDRA: HOW THE FAMILY FIRST PREVENTION SERVICES ACT REIFIES PATHOLOGY, CONTROL, AND PUNISHMENT IN THE FAMILY REGULATION SYSTEM |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 767 (July, 2021) |
Fundamentally, the so-called child welfare system--more appropriately named, the family regulation system--is a policing system rooted in white supremacist ideologies and techniques. From its earliest iteration, the family regulation system has functioned to pathologize, control, and punish the families entrapped in its web, most especially Black... |
2021 |
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| Vincent M. Southerland |
TOWARD A JUST FUTURE: ANTICIPATING AND OVERCOMING A SUSTAINED RESISTANCE TO REPARATIONS |
45 New York University Review of Law and Social Change 427 (2021) |
The modern movement for reparations for Black Americans continues to unfold as unprecedented challenges stand at America's doorstep. In 2020, the United States began to stagger through a global health crisis brought on by COVID-19. The pandemic claimed more than half a million American lives, decimated the economy, and irrevocably changed life as... |
2021 |
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| Monika Batra Kashyap |
TOWARD A RACE-CONSCIOUS CRITIQUE OF MENTAL HEALTH-RELATED EXCLUSIONARY IMMIGRATION LAWS |
26 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 87 (Winter, 2021) |
C1-3TABLE OF CONTENTS R1-2INTRODUCTION . R388. I. The Key Tenets of Dis/ability Critical Race Theory. 90 II. The Eugenics Movement and Immigration Restriction. 92 A. The Three Pillars of the Eugenics Movement: White Supremacy, Racism, and Ableism. 94 B. The Impact of the Eugenics Movement on Mental Health-Related Immigrant Exclusion. 99 III. A... |
2021 |
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| Kyle C. Velte |
TOWARD A TOUCHSTONE THEORY OF ANTI-RACISM: SEX DISCRIMINATION LAW MEETS #LIVINGWHILEBLACK |
33 Yale Journal of Law & Feminism 119 (2021) |
White supremacy and anti-Black racism continue their pervasive and destructive paths in contemporary American society. From the murder of George Floyd to the daily exclusions of Black bodies from white spaces, the nation's failure to right the wrongs of chattel slavery and racism continues to be highlighted in stark relief. This article... |
2021 |
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| Kelsey Scarlett, Lexi Weyrick |
TRANSFORMING THE FOCUS: AN INTERSECTIONAL LENS IN SCHOOL RESPONSE TO SEX DISCRIMINATION |
57 California Western Law Review 391 (Spring, 2021) |
Intersectionality refers to the reality that a person's different identities (such as race, gender, and class, among others) exist simultaneously and when taken as a whole are what inform the discrimination they face. When Title IX, a law prohibiting sex discrimination in educational settings, was first passed by Congress in 1972, the only identity... |
2021 |
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| Lori Bable |
TRIBALLY DEFINED CITIZENSHIP CRITERIA: COUNTERING WHITENESS AS PROPERTY INTERPRETATIONS OF "INDIAN" FOR RESTORING INHERENT SOVEREIGNTY |
18 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 29 (Winter, 2021) |
This article implements the framework of whiteness of property to articulate the ways in which holdings of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) have limited Tribal Nations' sovereignty because of the illegibility and correlative dispossession of inherent sovereignty itself. This article also highlights how these past SCOTUS... |
2021 |
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| Lindsey Webb |
TRUE CRIME AND DANGER NARRATIVES: REFLECTIONS ON STORIES OF VIOLENCE, RACE, AND (IN)JUSTICE |
24 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 131 (Spring, 2021) |
In the United States, white people have long told both overt and veiled narratives of the purported danger and criminality of people of color. Sometimes known as danger narratives, these gruesome accounts often depict the kidnapping, assault, and murder of white women at the hands of men of color. These narratives have been used to promote and... |
2021 |
Yes |
| Laura Briggs |
TWENTIETH CENTURY BLACK AND NATIVE ACTIVISM AGAINST THE CHILD TAKING SYSTEM: LESSONS FOR THE PRESENT |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 611 (July, 2021) |
This Article argues that the historical record supports activism that takes the abolition of the child welfare system as its starting point, rather than its reform. It explores the birth of the modern child welfare system in the 1950s as part of the white supremacist effort to punish Black communities that sought desegregation of schools and other... |
2021 |
Yes |
| Sherally Munshi |
UNSETTLING THE BORDER |
67 UCLA Law Review 1720 (April, 2021) |
When scholars and lawmakers ask who should be allowed to cross borders, under what circumstances, on what ground, they often leave unexamined the historical formation of the border itself. National borders are taken for granted as the backdrop against which normative debates unfold. This Article intervenes in contemporary debates about border... |
2021 |
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| John A. Powell , Eloy Toppin, Jr. |
UPROOTING AUTHORITARIANISM: DECONSTRUCTING THE STORIES BEHIND NARROW IDENTITIES AND BUILDING A SOCIETY OF BELONGING |
11 Columbia Journal of Race and Law 1 (January, 2021) |
Authoritarianism is on the rise globally, threatening democratic society and ushering in an era of extreme division. Most analyses and proposals for challenging authoritarianism leave intact the underlying foundations that give rise to this social phenomenon because they rely on a decontextualized intergroup dynamic theory. This Article argues that... |
2021 |
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| Vanita Saleema Snow |
VEILING AND INVERTED MASKING |
36 Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice 115 (2021) |
Introduction. 115 I. The Identity Dichotomy. 120 A. Binary Gender Identity. 122 B. Black and African-American Women: Race Intersects with Gender. 128 C. Muslim Women: Religious Identity Intersects with Gender. 130 D. African-American Muslim Women: The Challenges of Identity Convergence. 134 II. Masking Identity. 135 A. Masking to Assimilate. 137 B.... |
2021 |
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| Danielle L. Macedo |
WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE IS THIS? OVERBROAD JUDICIAL DISCRETION AND IMPLICIT BIAS IN THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM |
24 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 43 (Spring, 2021) |
I.Introduction. 44 II.Black American History and the Criminal Justice System: Setting the Stage. 48 A. Before the Civil Rights Movement: Explicit Bias in America. 51 B. The Civil Rights Movement and Beyond: Implicit Bias in America. 55 C. Black Lives Matter. 59 D. The Fight for Racial Equality Continues. 63 III.Criminal Sentencing Procedure and... |
2021 |
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| Willajeanne F. McLean |
WHO ARE YOU WEARING? AVATARS, BLACKFACE AND COMMODIFICATION OF THE OTHER |
61 IDEA®: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property 455 (2021) |
The question Who are you wearing? generally elicits the name of the haute couture designer, particularly when asked during the awards season. This Article, however, uses the question to interrogate the seemingly pervasive (mis)uses of bodies of color, whether in real or virtual world spaces. As explained by bell hooks, [w]hen race and ethnicity... |
2021 |
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| Kevin Drakulich , Kevin H. Wozniak , John Hagan , Devon Johnson |
WHOSE LIVES MATTERED? HOW WHITE AND BLACK AMERICANS FELT ABOUT BLACK LIVES MATTER IN 2016 |
55 Law and Society Review 227 (June, 2021) |
White Americans, on average, do not support Black Lives Matter, while Black Americans generally express strong support. The lack of support among white Americans is striking, and we argue that it matters why this racial gap exists. Using a nationally representative survey collected during the crest of the first wave of widespread attention to the... |
2021 |
Yes |
| Natsu Taylor Saito |
WHY XENOPHOBIA? |
31 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 1 (2021) |
Xenophobia is deeply intertwined with racism but nevertheless maintains a life of its own. Focusing on the structural drivers of xenophobia in the United States, this essay asks what xenophobia accomplishes that racism alone does not. It posits that while xenophobia serves many purposes, one of its most significant functions is to legitimize the... |
2021 |
Yes |
| Michele Goodwin |
WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES |
106 Cornell Law Review 851 (May, 2021) |
This Article takes aim at the troubling and persistent disempowerment and invisibility of women generally, and particularly marginalized women of color even one hundred years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. It observes how the persistence of sexism, toxically combined with racism, impedes full political, economic, and social... |
2021 |
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| James Thuo Gathii |
WRITING RACE AND IDENTITY IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT: WHAT CRT AND TWAIL CAN LEARN FROM EACH OTHER |
67 UCLA Law Review 1610 (April, 2021) |
This Article argues that issues of race and identity have so far been underemphasized, understudied, and undertheorized in mainstream international law. To address this major gap, this Article argues that there is an opportunity for learning, sharing, and collaboration between Critical Race Theorists (CRT) and scholars of Third World Approaches to... |
2021 |
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| Jeena Shah |
Affirming Affirmative Action by Affirming White Privilege: Sffa V. Harvard |
108 Georgetown Law Journal Online 134 (2020) |
Harvard College's race-based affirmative action measures for student admissions survived trial in a federal district court. Harvard's victory has since been characterized as [t]hrilling, yet [p]yrrhic. Although the court's reasoning should be lauded for its thorough assessment of Harvard's race-based affirmative action, the roads not taken by...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Online 2020 Article AFFIRMING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BY AFFIRMING WHITE PRIVILEGE: SFFA v. HARVARD Jeena Shah [FNa1] Copyright © 2020 by Jeena... |
2020 |
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| James Ramsey |
Demons, Savages, and Sovereigns: on Whiteness and Law |
36 Harvard Blackletter Law Journal L.J. 7 (Spring, 2020) |
Race is commonly understood to refer to a particular combination of a set of certain phenotypic traits--skin color, nose shape, etc.--and ethnic heritage, sometimes with associated cultural characteristics and predispositions. It is an ascribed trait, something people are born into and cannot change (with the important exception of passing, where...; Search Snippet: ...Law Journal Spring, 2020 Article DEMONS, SAVAGES, AND SOVEREIGNS: ON WHITENESS AND LAW James Ramsey [FNa1] Copyright © 2020 by the President... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Khaled A. Beydoun |
Faith in Whiteness: Free Exercise of Religion as Racial Expression |
105 Iowa Law Review 1475 (May, 2020) |
Faith in whiteness is the affirmation that religion remains forceful in shaping race and racial division. It is also the observation, born from formative contestations of racial exclusion and today's rising white populism, that central to the American experience is the conditioned belief that whiteness stands at the pinnacle of social...; Search Snippet: ...LAW REVIEW Iowa Law Review May, 2020 Article FAITH IN WHITENESS: FREE EXERCISE OF RELIGION AS RACIAL EXPRESSION Khaled A. Beydoun... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
Race, Pregnancy, and the Opioid Epidemic: White Privilege and the Criminalization of Opioid Use During Pregnancy |
133 Harvard Law Review 770 (January, 2020) |
C1-2CONTENTS Introduction. 772 Formulations of White Privilege. 778 I. The Opioid Epidemic. 785 A. Race and the Opioid Epidemic. 788 B. Pregnancy and the Opioid Epidemic. 793 II. Substance Use During Pregnancy and the Law. 798 A. Civil Systems. 798 B. Criminal Systems. 803 1. Alabama. 810 2. South Carolina. 811 3. Tennessee. 812 III. The...; Search Snippet: ...Review January, 2020 Article RACE, PREGNANCY, AND THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: WHITE PRIVILEGE AND THE CRIMINALIZATION OF OPIOID USE DURING PREGNANCY Khiara M... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Krystal D. Williams |
Why White Privilege Is a Necessary Part of Any Conversation on Racism |
35 Maine Bar Journal 110 (2020) |
Editor's Note: The following letter was submitted to the Maine State Bar Association following remarks delivered during a regularly scheduled edition of Bar Talk, the MSBA's Zoom forum for discussing law practice and MSBA activities during the coronavirus pandemic. In the Maine State Bar Association's June 15, 2020 Bar Talk Program, Attorney Leah...; Search Snippet: ...110 MAINE BAR JOURNAL Maine Bar Journal 2020 Feature WHY WHITE PRIVILEGE IS A NECESSARY PART OF ANY CONVERSATION ON RACISM Krystal... |
2020 |
Yes |
| Marcus Sandifer |
How White Right Can Fight Wrong |
44 Human Rights 24 (2019) |
Privilege for one person, by its very nature, comes at somebody else's disadvantage, otherwise, it's not a privilege.--Unknown When it comes to tackling the most critical diversity and inclusion (D&I) issues facing the legal profession, law firms and legal departments across the United States have enlisted some of the best-known and... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Khiara M. Bridges |
White Privilege and White Disadvantage |
105 Virginia Law Review 449 (April, 2019) |
Introduction. 449 I. The Story of Carrie Buck and Buck v. Bell. 452 II. Defining White Privilege. 456 III. Whiteness and the Eugenics Movement. 462 IV. Identifying Carrie Buck's Racial Privilege. 474 V. Some Final Reflections on White Privilege. 479 |
2019 |
Yes |
| David Simson |
Whiteness as Innocence |
96 Denver Law Review 635 (Spring, 2019) |
Current antidiscrimination law is exceedingly hostile to the project of race-conscious remediation--the conscious use of race to mitigate America's persistent racial hierarchy. This Article argues that this broad hostility can be traced in significant part to what I call Whiteness as Innocence ideology. This ideology is a system of legal... |
2019 |
Yes |
| Melvin J. Kelley IV |
Retuning Bell: Searching for Freedom's Ring as Whiteness Resurges in Value |
34 Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice 131 (Spring, 2018) |
A review of U.S. history demonstrates that profound progress has been made in addressing racial injustices over the years. Yet the dream of equality still remains elusive for most people of color, as evidenced by persistent racial inequities across all measures, the rollback of civil rights victories, as well as the election of President Trump and... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Freya Irani |
The Production of Feeling and the Reproduction of Privilege: Expectation, Affect, and International Investment Law |
65 UCLA Law Review Discourse 158 (2018) |
In the last twenty years, the concept of legitimate expectations has come to play a very prominent role in international investment treaty-based arbitration, as arbitral tribunals have required states to compensate investors for taking measures that allegedly interfere with, or for failing to take measures that protect, such investors' legitimate... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Elizabeth Teebagy |
White Privilege and Racial Narratives: the Role of Race in Media Storytelling of Sexual Assaults by College Athletes |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 479 (Winter, 2018) |
I. Introduction. 479 II. Background. 482 A. Critical Race Theory. 482 1. White Privilege. 483 2. Interest-Convergence. 483 3. The Myth of the Hypersexualized and Dangerous Black Man. 484 a. Implicit Bias and Confirmation Bias. 485 B. Media and Racialized Crime Narratives. 486 C. The Relationship Between Sexual Assault and Collegiate Athletics. 487... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Lihi Yona |
Whiteness at Work |
24 Michigan Journal of Race and Law 111 (Fall, 2018) |
How do courts understand Whiteness in Title VII litigation? This Article argues that one fruitful site for such examination is same-race discrimination cases between Whites. Such cases offer a peek into what enables regimes of Whiteness and White supremacy in the workplace, and the way in which Whiteness is theorized within Title VII adjudication.... |
2018 |
Yes |
| Melvin J. Kelley IV |
Interpreting Equal Protection Clause Jurisprudence under the Whiteness-bell Curve: How Diversity Has Overtaken Equity in Education |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 135 (Winter 2017) |
Racial inequities in educational opportunities persist despite decades of race-based affirmative action policies pursuing integration and diversity. The late Professor Derrick Bell long argued that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, standing alone, would not provide racial equality for Blacks. His conclusion was premised on... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Caroline Mala Corbin |
Justice Scalia, the Establishment Clause, and Christian Privilege |
15 First Amendment Law Review 185 (Symposium, 2017) |
Justice Scalia had an unusual take on the Establishment Clause. From its earliest Establishment Clause cases, the Supreme Court has held that the Clause forbids the government from first, favoring one or some religions over others, and second, favoring religion over secular counterparts. Although Justice Scalia was not alone in questioning the... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Jeremy Dunham, Holly Lawford-Smith, University of Sheffield, Department of Philosophy, j.dunham@sheffield.ac.uk, University of Sheffield, Department of Philosophy, h.lawford-smith@sheffield.ac.uk |
Offsetting Race Privilege |
11 Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy 1 (January, 2017) |
ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2014, Michael Brown was shot - six times - and killed by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri (see e.g., Buchanan et al. (2014)). Since that date, Ferguson has been the center of a movement in the United States against what amounts to modern racial separation. Brown was the fourth unarmed black man to... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Angela Onwuachi-Willig |
Policing the Boundaries of Whiteness: the Tragedy of Being "Out of Place" from Emmett till to Trayvon Martin |
102 Iowa Law Review 1113 (March, 2017) |
ABSTRACT: This Article takes what many view as an extraordinary case about racial hatred from 1955, the Emmett Till murder and trial, and analyzes it against the Trayvon Martin killing and trial outcome in 2012 and 2013. Specifically, this Article exposes one important, but not yet explored similarity between the two cases: their shared role in... |
2017 |
Yes |
| George I. Lovell |
Reflections on a Funhouse Mirror--racist Violence, the Protection of Privilege, and the Limits of Tolerance |
42 Law and Social Inquiry 571 (Spring, 2017) |
Bell, Jeannine. 2013. Hate Thy Neighbor: Move In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing. New York: NYU Press. Pp. 259. Jeannine Bell's Hate Thy Neighbor: Move In Violence and the Persistence of Racial Segregation in American Housing provides an account of racist violence as a tool for maintaining housing segregation... |
2017 |
Yes |
| Erika Wilson |
The Great American Dilemma: Law and the Intransigence of Racism |
20 CUNY Law Review 513 (Spring, 2017) |
At the start of the twentieth century, W.E.B. Du Bois noted that, the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line. Over a century later, Du Bois's words remain prescient. In the twenty-first century, the problem of the color line persists. This should come as no surprise. The subordination and marginalization of people of... |
2017 |
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| Leslie P. Culver |
White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging "White Privilege" to Benefit Law Students of Color |
21 Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 37 (Winter 2017) |
Law students of color typically avoid seeking the mentorship of white law professors, largely white males, finding female faculty and faculty of color more approachable and willing to serve as mentors. Yet, according to recent ABA statistics, white people make up eighty-eight percent of the legal profession, with sixty-four percent being male. In... |
2017 |
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