Systemic, Structural and Institutional Racism
Most white people in the US are familiar with explicit racism or racism that is a conscious choice to actively hate or discriminate someone of another race. Most white people associate explicit ra…
Balkinization: Balkinization Symposium on Linda C. McClain, Who's the Bigot?: Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law: Collected Posts
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
The Posthumous Pardon of Homer Plessy - Anna Price
"On January 5 2022 the governor of Louisiana posthumously pardoned Homer Plessy the defendant in the famous 1896 U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson. Plessy is known for affirming the legal theory of 'separate but equal' that was used to justify Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was later overturned in part by Brown v. Board of Education."
Addressing Cultural Bias in the Legal Profession - Debra Chopp
"Over the past two decades there has been an outpouring of scholarship that explores the problem of implicit bias. Through this work commentators have taken pains to define the phenomenon and to describe the ways in which it contributes to misunderstanding discrimination inequality and more."