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…
Running The Gauntlet: Lives of Practicing Minority Academic Librarians
Elizabeth Martinez Smith noted the “balancing act” dilemma Black people face as they run the gauntlet of contradictory pressures. She describes the meaning of “running the gauntle…
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."
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