Race Rights and the Law Blog
Nadia Ahmad
May 26, 2020
The following post is by Professor Chris Ogolla (Barry Law).
Famed Boston lawyer Joseph Nye Welch, is remembered for his immortal line to Senator Joseph McCarthy, during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. After Senator McCarthy charged that one of Welch's attorneys had ties to a Communist organization, Welch made the now famous statement, have you no sense of decency?[1] Perhaps we should be…
Sahar Aziz
May 18, 2020
The long-awaited sequel to Presumed Incompetent is now out!
The book launch for Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, and Resistance of Women in Academia is on Thursday May 21 at 2 pm EST. Register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9YnaRngrSce2gBjL_KuArA
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Nadia Ahmad
May 15, 2020
Law Professor Etienne Toussaint (UDC Law) recently published a law review article, Dismantling The Master’s House: Toward A Justice-Based Theory of Community Economic Development, 53 U. Mich. J. L. Reform 337 (2019). See abstract below:
Since the end of the American Civil War, scholars have debated the efficacy of various models of community economic development, or CED. Historically, this debate…
Sahar Aziz
May 13, 2020
Trump's latest immigrant ban has little to do with a collapsing labour market during a global pandemic, and everything to do with election year politics. Rather than focus on improving our public health infrastructure and emergency management systems, Trump is exploiting the Covid-19 global pandemic to mobilize his anti-immigrant voter base. His executive order barring issuance of immigrant…
Nadia Ahmad
May 11, 2020
In this project with Cliff Villa (New Mexico Law), Rebecca Bratspies (CUNY Law), and Roger Lin (Berkeley), I worked to update the original work by Clifford Rechtschaffen, Eileen Gaua, and Catherine O’Neill. Professors teaching in this field can request a complimentary copy here. You can also request your library to order a copy. Available on Amazon as well.
SpearIt
May 8, 2020
Erik Nielson & Andrea L. Dennis, Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America (2019). “With the Fourth Amendment gone, eyes are on the First,That’s why I’m spittin cyanide each and every verse”
These lyrics from Paris’ 2003 album, Sonic Jihad, seemingly anticipate a future of curtailed free speech for African Americans. The growing practice of using rap lyrics against criminal…
Sahar Aziz
May 7, 2020
The scapegoating of an ethnic group during a national emergency has begun.
Rumours are circulating that Chinese people are spreading the coronavirus in America. School children are bullied for being of Chinese origin. Racial slurs are hurled at people who "look Chinese". Chinese culture is increasingly represented as backward and as a threat to America.
The predictable consequence is an…
SpearIt
April 28, 2020
On Monday evening, April 20, President Trump, purportedly to protect us, via tweet, announced his intention to suspend immigration into the U.S. His raison d’etre was articulated as being motivated by “the attack from the invisible Enemy as well as the need to protect the jobs of our GREAT American Citizens.” On Tuesday, April 21, President Trump stated that with his forthcoming executive…
SpearIt
April 27, 2020
Recent protests against government stay-home orders in response to the Covid-19 pandemic reveal stark double-standards of privilege and protest. The visuals are dramatic: mobs of possibly infected, armed individuals invading public spaces.
Only white people in America can do this.
The livid mobs of white housewives and gun slinging male counterparts have unleashed a spectacle that is as wild as…
Sahar Aziz
April 25, 2020
The University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law is hosting Professor Sahar Aziz for a Distinguished Lecture on Racializing Muslims: From Post-9/11 to Post-Pandemic on Monday April 27 at 4 pm EST.
Free Registration at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pZ3fCyw-Qm-VnBLgk3EFzw