Race Rights and the Law Blog
SpearIt
March 5, 2020
I was in a squat position in a trench with bombs exploding all around me. I was safe. I had my military issue weapon, and my daddy next to me. He was the sergeant of the platoon. He yelled his orders and we rose out of the trench toward the Jerrys weapons blasting and grey German uniformed soldiers falling to the left and right of us. I pulled a grenade out of my pocket, pulled the pin, and…
Vinay Harpalani
March 2, 2020
Today will be a day of reckoning for Joe Biden. Saturday’s South Carolina Democratic primary revived Biden’s presidential candidacy, and after this Super Tuesday’s primaries, he will find out if it can thrive again. Although Biden was long the frontrunner for the 2020 Democratic nomination, he finished far behind Bernie Sanders in the first three nomination contests—the Iowa caucuses, the New…
SpearIt
February 29, 2020
Save the Date, Call for Papers & Participation:
ClassCrits XIII: Unlocking Equality: Revisiting the Intersection of Race and Class
Co-Sponsored by ClassCrits, Inc. & Thurgood Marshall School of Law
November 6-7, 2020, @Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, Texas
Deadline for proposals: June 1, 2020
For more details, visit ClassCrits website at www.classcrits.org
Nadia Ahmad
February 28, 2020
Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, February 7, 1986. Photo copyright Gary Monroe.
The Legacy of Jean v. Nelson
April 3, 2020NYU School of Law
The year 2020 marks the 35th Anniversary of Justice Thurgood Marshall's groundbreaking dissent in Jean v. Nelson, wherein Justice Marshall called for equal protection to apply to Haitian immigrants, and to prohibit the government from discriminating on…
SpearIt
February 21, 2020
UPDATE: Due to the Corona Virus, the conference has been canceled.
The program is available for the 2020 Poverty Law conference, happening April 10-11, 2020, at University of California Berkeley School of Law. The theme of the conference is Where We Go from Here, which will feature lawyers, scholars, and advocates who, broadly speaking, study the relationship between law and socio-economic…
Vinay Harpalani
February 14, 2020
Suja A. Thomas, Peer and Sarah Pedersen Professor of Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, has posted The Customer Caste: Lawful Discrimination by Public Businesses. Here is the abstract:
It is legal to follow and watch people in retail stores based on their race, give inferior service to restaurant customers based on their race, and place patrons in certain hotel rooms because of…
Vinay Harpalani
February 13, 2020
Overt racism is unquestionably on the rise in the U.S. Scholars and leaders are calling for a reckoning of US racial history that has not yet happened. [1] Part of this reckoning involves thinking and learning – and teaching – about how different areas of law relate to race and racism, both historically and now. This kind of inquiry is essential for gaining a thorough understanding of…
Nadia Ahmad
February 11, 2020
Every year, with the support of Republicans & Democrats alike, half a million people are locked up in prisons & detention centers while the government decides if they'll be allowed to stay in the United States. How did we get here? Believe it or not, immigration hasn't always worked this way. Law professor César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández explains how & why we can do better. César…
Sahar Aziz
February 10, 2020
Sadequee, Sharmin. Surveillance, Secular Law, and the Reconstruction of Islam in the United States. Surveillance & Society 16(4): 473-487 (2018).
Since the inception of its War on Terror, the United States government has embraced an approach that specifically targets practitioners of Islam. In addition to the broad and formalized profiling of Muslims carried out by legislators, law…
Sahar Aziz
January 30, 2020
Crossing Borders and Managing Racialized Identities: Experiences of Security and Surveillance Among Young Canadian Muslims
Like other western nations, th[e] securitization of the Canadian border is increasingly justified through a highly racialized discourse that conceives of Muslims as a threat to western civilizations. As a result, Muslim identities have become the new targets of the…