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Category Archives: Race and Racism
CFP: Inheritance and Inequality – Drexel Law Review
Announcement of Conference Symposium and Call for Proposals Inheritance and Inequality Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts & Estates and Symposium of the Drexel Law Review Expressions of interest due May 1, 2024 Program September 27-28, 2024, Philadelphia, PA We are pleased to … Continue reading
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Symposium 2/24—The Federal Income Tax: Racially Blind But Not Racially Neutral
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The Contribution of Shareholder Primacy to the Racial Wealth Gap @lenorepalladino @rooseveltinst
Lenore Palladino (Roosevelt Institute) has posted a working paper, The Contribution of Shareholder Primacy to the Racial Wealth Gap. Here is an excerpt: I find a Black–white ratio of 0.013 and a Hispanic–white ratio of 0.016 for total shareholder payments … Continue reading
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What Does Tax Law Have to Do with Racial Inequality?
Quite a bit. For those who would like to know more, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy has issued a new report on The Geographic Distribution of Extreme Wealth in the U.S. Here are a few of the report’s … Continue reading
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Reproductive Violence in America & the Justice the Relf Sisters are Due
Read journalist Linda Villarosa’s New York Times piece, “The Long Shadow of Eugenics in America” (June 8, 2022) to learn the story of the forced sterilization of the Welf sisters, as well as thousands of other victims of the deep-rooted … Continue reading
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“Bigotry is a Close Cousin of Prudence:” the Overlapping Racial Ramifications of Prohibition and Abortion Restrictions
Read New York Times opinion columnist Charles M. Blow’s comparison of the racial manifestations of both abortion and prohibition in the U.S in his piece, “Abortion, Like Prohibition, Has a Clear Racial Dimension,” (July 3, 2022). Read excerpts from Blow’s … Continue reading
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Faith Ringgold: “You asked me why I wanted to become an artist and I said I didn’t know. Well I know now. It is because it’s the only way I know of feeling free.”
The retrospective “Faith Ringgold: American People” leaves the New Museum of Contemporary Art on June 5, 2022. The exhibit reveals how multi-media artist, activist, feminist, academic and writer Ringgold has made an indelible mark on the Black feminist movement within … Continue reading
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Marc Spindelman on “Queer Black Trans Politics and Constitutional Originalism”
Marc Spindelman (OSU) has posted to SSRN his essay “Queer Black Trans Politics and Constitutional Originalism,” 13 ConLawNOW 93 (2022). Here is the abstract: Queer Black trans politics offer an important frame for understanding the current constitutional moment. This … Continue reading
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CFP – ClassCrits XIII: Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class
Call for Papers and Participation ClassCrits XIII: Unlocking Inequality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class Co-Sponsored by ClassCrits, Inc., TapRoot Earth, and Thurgood Marshall School of Law October 21-22, 2022 Where: Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX (we anticipate … Continue reading
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13 Short Symposium Essays in Connection with “Are You There, Law? It’s Me, Menstruation?” @ColumbiaJGL
On April 9/10, 2021, the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of Judy Blume’s book, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and the 30th anniversary of the journal with a symposium … Continue reading
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Yuvraj Joshi on “Racial Justice and Peace”
Yuvraj Joshi (Doctoral Candidate, SSHRC Fellow, ISPS Fellow, Yale Law School) has posted to SSRN his article Racial Justice and Peace, forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal (2022). Here is the abstract: The United States recently saw the largest racial … Continue reading
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#BlackTaxpayersMatter: Intersection of Race, Tax Systems, Laws and Enforcement
#BlackTaxpayersMatter: Intersection of Race, Tax Systems, Laws and Enforcement Date: Friday, February 5, 2021 Time: 3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. EST Format: Free non-CLE Webinar Sponsor: ABA Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice Co-Sponsors: ABA Center for Human Rights, … Continue reading
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Yuvraj Joshi on “Racial Transition,” forthcoming in Washington University Law Review
Yuvraj Joshi (Fellow, Yale Law School) has posted to SSRN his article, Racial Transition, 98 Wash. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021). Here is the abstract: The United States is a nation in transition, struggling to surmount its racist past. This … Continue reading
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Emory Law Journal CFP: Systemic Racism in the Law & Anti-Racist Solutions
From students at the Emory Law Journal: We write to you in troubling times, yet we are hopeful for a brighter future ahead. First, we hope that you are taking care of yourselves and your loved ones. Second, we want … Continue reading
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Wildman, “On Learning and Relearning about White Privilege”
Stephanie Wildman (Santa Clara) has posted to the NYU Press blog a post “On Learning and Relearning About White Privilege.” Here is an excerpt: Later in the 70s, a Black student in my Sex Discrimination and the Law seminar came … Continue reading
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On Teaching Torts with a Focus on Race and Racism @wrigginsmelaw
Jennifer Wriggins (Maine) has a post over here at the Race and the Law Prof Blog on Teaching Torts with a Focus on Race and Racism.
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Hearing Women: Reflections on the Anniversary of Christine Blasey Ford’s Testimony
by Stephanie M. Wildman September 27 marks the anniversary of a skirmish that ranks in the pantheon of modern civilian conflicts over what kind of society America will be. Many believed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony one year ago about … Continue reading
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Bringing Indigeneous Voices Into Judicial Decision-Making
This news from Sydney (Australia) Law School (here): Dr Nicole Watson will use an Australian Research Council grant to incorporate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander voices into judgments and celebrate their contributions to the development of Australian law. Dr Watson, … Continue reading
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New Book Announcement: “The Princeton Fugitive Slave” by Lolita Buckner Inniss (@auntiefeminist @SMULawSchool)
Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss (SMU) has published her book, The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson (Fordham U. Press 2019). Here is the publisher’s description: James Collins Johnson made his name by escaping slavery in Maryland … Continue reading
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Talking About #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo
In April, 2019, the Wisconsin Journal of Gender, Law & Society sponsored a symposium on “Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis in the Twenty-First Century.” Instead of preparing individual papers for publication, … Continue reading
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Black Women and Non-Binary Writers Paying Tribute to Toni Morrison #CiteBlackWomen
Dr. Tara L. Conley (Communication, Montclair State) has compiled a list of online essays written by Black women and non-binary writers in tribute to Toni Morrison in the wake of her August 5 death. Dr. Conley’s list is here. She … Continue reading
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CFP-Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the Local to the Global
Bumping to the front; submission deadline 7/15 From colleagues at the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law: Prison Abolition, Human Rights, and Penal Reform: From the … Continue reading
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Symposium Program: Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis
April 12, 2019 Symposium Sponsored by the Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society Welcoming Remarks + Framing the Issues 8:45-9:45 am Professor Linda S. Greene (Wisconsin), Professor Lolita Buckner Inniss (SMU), Sam Bach (WJLGS) Session #1: Moderator Linda S. Greene … Continue reading
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Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis: Symposium @WisconsinLaw J. L., Gender & Soc’y
Today at the University of Wisconsin, the Journal of Law, Gender & Society is hosting a symposium on “Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo and the Role of Intersectional Legal Analysis: Symposium.” Here is the program description: Recent … Continue reading
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Joshi on “Racial Indirection”
Yuraj Joshi (doctoral candidate and SSHRC fellow at Yale Law School) has posted to SSRN his article, “Racial Indirection,” forthcoming in the Davis Law Review. Here is the abstract: Racial indirection describes practices that produce racially disproportionate results without the … Continue reading
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Gloria Steinem’s Career in Pictures + Essay by Rebecca Carroll @rebel19
The New York Times is featuring on its website various collections of curated historical photographs. This week’s collection (here) includes an essay by Rebecca Carroll: “What I See: Gloria Steinem Shoulder to Shoulder with Women of Color.” Here is an … Continue reading
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Murray on “Epistemic Injustice in Puerto Rico”
Yxta Maya Murray (Loyola LA) has posted to SSRN her article “FEMA Has Been a Nightmare”: Epistemic Injustice in Puerto Rico, forthcoming in the Willamette Law Review. Here is the abstract: The continuing disaster in Puerto Rico, caused by the … Continue reading
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Shaming and Blaming Mothers Under the Law: It’s Time We Stop Expecting Mothers to Be Perfect
The perfect mother is a ubiquitous, if impossible, part of American life. We see her in spandex at the gym, working out—self-care!—a week after delivering twins. She’s at center-stage when internet experts opine about how mothers can prevent teenagers’ opioid … Continue reading
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@SheWritesToLive on “Why I’m Giving Up on Intersectionality”
In Quartzy (a “weekly dispatch about living well in the global economy”) over at QZ.com, contributing writer Tamela J. Gordon has an essay entitled, Why I’m Giving Up on Intersectional Feminism. Here is an excerpt: As time progressed, any hope … Continue reading
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Maynard on “How the NCAA Infringes on the Freedom of Families”
Goldburn P. Maynard Jr. (Louisville) has published in the Wisconsin Law Review Online his essay “They’re Watching You: How the NCAA Infringes on the Freedom of Families.” Here is an excerpt: This Essay argues that the NCAA’s surveillance of the … Continue reading
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Henderson on “The Intersectional Life and Times of Lutie A. Lytle”
Taja-Nia Y. Henderson (Rutgers) has published a new article in the Iowa Law Review: ‘I Shall Talk to My Own People’: The Intersectional Life and Times of Lutie A. Lytle, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 1983 (2017). For those not familiar … Continue reading
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How Clothes (Un)Make the (Wo)Man
I read a wonderful piece this morning in the Chronicle of Higher Education about the ways in which some black academics use fashionable clothing to signal identity. This academic fine dressing is described as part of the black dandy movement, the … Continue reading
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#Blackwomenatwork: Personal is Political
As I shared with one of my classes the other night, over my years in academia, on a fairly regular basis, white students have said to me, “I am afraid of black people,” or even,”I don’t like black people.” When … Continue reading
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Joshi on “Measuring Diversity”
Yuvraj Joshi, a Fellow at Lambda Legal, has published an essay “Measuring Diversity” in the Columbia Law Review Online. Here is the abstract: In Fisher v. University of Texas in June 2016, the Supreme Court upheld the use of race-conscious … Continue reading
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Speaker Needed for FIU Symposium on Race and Reproductive Rights
From colleagues at FIU, who are looking for a speaker to round out an upcoming symposium, due to a last-minute cancellation by a previously-scheduled speaker: Florida International University College of Law will be holding a symposium on reproductive rights, “New … Continue reading
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Strategic Deployment of a Black Female Attorney in the Bill Cosby Case
In this piece on NPR, Feminist Law Prof Lolita Buckner Inniss (Cleveland-Marshall) comments on Bill Cosby’s decision to hire Monique Pressley as his attorney: The decision to hire her is also strategic, says Buckner Inniss. “Her gender and her race … Continue reading
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Equality and Non-Discrimination under International Law
For those who might be interested, here is a link to the introductory chapter in a volume of collected works on the subject published this year by Ashgate, part of a five-volume series on International Human Rights: Equality and Non-Discrimination under International … Continue reading
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Patricia Hill Collins, “Lessons from Black Feminism”
Earlier this year, Patricia Hill Collins spoke at Grand Valley State University (Michigan). Her talk, “We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest: Lessons from Black Feminism,” was sponsored by the University’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, Women’s Center and LGBT Resource … Continue reading
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Anonymity and Abuse: An Addendum
In recent weeks I have begun a series of four blog posts that discuss discrimination and harassment in cyberspace, its perpetrators, and its consequences. The first post, “Identity and Ideas,” is available here. The second post, “Anonymity and Abuse,” is … Continue reading
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Anonymity and Abuse
This is the second in a series of four blog posts that discuss discrimination and harassment in cyberspace, its perpetrators, and its consequences. The first post is available here. Last week I wrote about the way that people attack women … Continue reading
Identity and Ideas
This is the first in a series of four blog posts that discuss discrimination and harassment in cyberspace, its perpetrators, and its consequences. Women and people of color are under-represented in online discourse. As of August 2013, 87% of Wikipedia … Continue reading
“For most Americans, life expectancy continues to rise—but not for uneducated white women. They have lost five years, and no one knows why. “
TAP story by Monica Potts entitled “What’s Killing Poor White Women?” here.
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Of Husband Hunting and Diamond Mines
There has been a tremendous dust-up in response to Susan Patton’s (a member of the Princeton class of 1977) letter to the Daily Princetonian. In her letter, Patton exhorts Princeton women to begin the task of husband hunting in their … Continue reading
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Lean In (Toward the Everlasting Glass)
I think about all the moments I just didn’t believe in myself. Every test I was sure I was about to fail, every job I wasn’t sure I could do,” she says. “It was after watching so many women quietly … Continue reading
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In Defense of Law Review Affirmative Action
As you may have seen, the new Scholastica submission service allows law reviews to collect demographic information from authors. A flurry of blog posts has recently cropped up in response; as far as I can tell, they range from negative … Continue reading
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Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas, “Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant”
From Palgrave, this new book by Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas (Religion, Goucher College): Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant. Here’s is the publisher’s description: There is a problem in the black church. It is a problem with … Continue reading
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“Bad Feminist” By Roxane Gay
Here. Below in an excerpt: There’s also this: lately, magazines have been telling me there’s something wrong with feminism or women trying to achieve a work/life balance or just women in general. The Atlantic has led the way in these … Continue reading
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One of the original “Chiquita Banana” commercials
So much going on here! Courtesy of an awesome college student.
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What Happens When Members of Historically Disadvantaged Groups Talk About Equality
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