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Islands of Empowerment: Anti-Discrimination Law and The Question of Racial Emancipation - Faisal Bhabha
Islands of Empowerment: Anti-Discrimination Law and The Question of Racial Emancipation - Faisal Bhabha
"In her evocative masterpiece The Alchemy of Race and Rights published in 1991 Patricia Williams captured a moment in American legal thought that marked a turning point in expressions about race and power and the implications for social equality. It contained lessons extending beyond America's unique race history to the general social and political dynamics in liberal democracy that create conditions of privilege and exclusion. She invited us to think about the place of law in the social and institutional practices that sustain status quo hierarchies despite proclaimed civil rights commitments to justice. She also inspired hope that the role of the lawyer could be one of mutinous agitator—struggling from the inside using the tools and skills of practice to support the causes of identifiable communities and social movements."
·wyaj.uwindsor.ca·
Islands of Empowerment: Anti-Discrimination Law and The Question of Racial Emancipation - Faisal Bhabha
Black Americans and the Law - Berkley Law
Black Americans and the Law - Berkley Law
"American jurisprudence and law have profoundly shaped defined and constrained the lives of Black people for over 400 years. Racial inequality has extremely deep roots in American society and our Constitution statutes court cases and regulations not only bear witness to this but are often the source of it. This timeline provides an overview of some of these laws beginning with the first known case marking the legal difference between Africans and Europeans in 1640 in Virginia and continuing with laws recently introduced in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and other Black Americans. While not exhaustive the timeline focuses on a number of key legal events and actions that have structured and systematized racism in America."
·law.berkeley.edu·
Black Americans and the Law - Berkley Law
Addressing Cultural Bias in the Legal Profession - Debra Chopp
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."
·repository.law.umich.edu·
Addressing Cultural Bias in the Legal Profession - Debra Chopp
Solitary Watch
Solitary Watch
Premier source of news and information on solitary confinement in U.S. prisons and jails.
·solitarywatch.org·
Solitary Watch
Multicultural Policies in Contemporary Democracies - Queen's University
Multicultural Policies in Contemporary Democracies - Queen's University
"The Multiculturalism Policy Index is a scholarly research project that monitors the evolution of multiculturalism policies in 21 Western democracies. The project is designed to provide information about multiculturalism policies in a standardized format that aids comparative research and contributes to the understanding of state-minority relations. The project provides an index for each of three types of minorities: one index relating to immigrant groups one relating to historic national minorities and one relating to indigenous peoples. The Multiculturalism Policy Index and supporting documentation are freely available for researchers public officials journalists students activists and others interested in the topic."
·queensu.ca·
Multicultural Policies in Contemporary Democracies - Queen's University
White Like Me: The Negative Impact of the Diversity Rationale on White Identity Formation - Osamudia R. James
White Like Me: The Negative Impact of the Diversity Rationale on White Identity Formation - Osamudia R. James
"In several cases addressing the constitutionality of affirmative action admissions policies the Supreme Court has recognized a compelling state interest in schools with diverse student populations. According to the Court and affirmative action proponents the pursuit of diversity does not only benefit minority students who gain expanded access to elite institutions through affirmative action. Rather diversity also benefits white students who grow through encounters with minority students it contributes to social and intellectual life on campus and it serves society at large by aiding the development of citizens equipped for employment and citizen-ship in an increasingly diverse country."
·nyulawreview.org·
White Like Me: The Negative Impact of the Diversity Rationale on White Identity Formation - Osamudia R. James
Being Antiracist
Being Antiracist
No one is born racist or antiracist; these result from the choices we make. Being antiracist results from a conscious decision to make frequent, consistent, equitable choices daily. These choices require ongoing self-awareness and self-reflection as we move through life. In the absence of making antiracist choices, we (un)consciously uphold aspects of white supremacy, white-dominant culture, and unequal institutions and society. Being racist or antiracist is not about who you are; it is about what you do.
·nmaahc.si.edu·
Being Antiracist
University of Arizona Innocence Project gets federal grant to expand its work
University of Arizona Innocence Project gets federal grant to expand its work
An Arizona organization working to investigate and litigate cases of wrongful conviction in Arizona will receive funding from the Department of Justice to continue that work.The University of Arizona Innocence Project started as a small clinic in 2014 and today it's one of two such initiatives in Arizona.
·fronterasdesk.org·
University of Arizona Innocence Project gets federal grant to expand its work
To imagine and pursue racial justice
To imagine and pursue racial justice
To effectively address racial domination, we argue, one must have not only an idea of the means with which to struggle on behalf of a reconstructed racial order, but also an idea of the ends for which one is struggling.
·scholar.harvard.edu·
To imagine and pursue racial justice