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  • The Law and Genetics of Racial Profiling in Medicine

    The Law and Genetics of Racial Profiling in Medicine Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2004) pages 391-483 Erik Lillquist, Associate Provost for Academic Projects & Professor of Law Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey Charles A. Sullivan, Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Finance…

  • (Re)defining Race: Addressing the Consequences of the Law’s Failure to Define Race

    Drawing on findings from social psychology to demonstrate how race can be defined in multiple ways that may produce different categorizations, this Article argues that the lack of racial definition is problematic because it leaves a space for multiple definitions to operate below the surface, creating not only problematic parallels to a bad legal past…

  • The Multiracial Option: A Step in the White Direction

    This Note argues that based on the history of racial classifications in the United States and existing motivations to maintain the white majority, the push for a multiracial category functions as a means by which mixed race individuals can join the ranks of whiteness.

  • Reverse Passing

    This Article is the first to coin, analyze, and propose a theory of reverse passing. It also deepens the rich and rising scholarship examining performance theory and the pliability of racial identity.

  • White Creole Identity on Trial: The Haitian Revolution and Refugees in Louisiana

    The flight of refugees from the Haitian Revolution intertwined the histories of Louisiana and Saint-Domingue. The story of one refugee, Pierre Benonime Dormenon illustrates how perceptions of the Haitian Revolution and racial prejudices within Louisiana affected an emerging white Creole identity.

  • Alaska’s Unique Civil Rights Struggle

    A generation before the Civil Rights movement gained national attention, the struggle against Jim Crow was being fought…in Alaska. And women were at the forefront of the struggle.

  • Creative Producer, Passing by Indigo Griffiths

    Creative Producer, Passing by Indigo Griffiths Arts Jobs Arts Council England March 2018 Closes: 2018-03-26 Location: London, England Type: Part-Time Salary: Paid (£10k-15k pro rata) Artform: Theater Contact: Gemma Aked-Priestley and Indigo Griffiths Description Chicago. 1941. Joey, John and Eliza are siblings but their lives are about to take different paths. Joey is embracing the…

  • Detroit Housewife Kills White Husband

    Detroit Housewife Kills White Husband Jet 1953-03-05 page 20 A 29-year-old Detroit Negro housewife stabbed her white husband to death because he nagged her about not having his dinner ready. Mrs. Dorothy Homic told police she took a paring knife from her husband, Frank, 38, and stabbed him in the chest after he threatened her.…

  • Frederick Douglass: a multi-racial trailblazer

    Frederick Douglass: a multi-racial trailblazer The Baltimore Sun 2018-02-08 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University School of Law Gregory Morton purchased Frederick Douglass’ home in Fells Point and makes it available to rent on Airbnb. (Barbara Haddock Taylor / Baltimore Sun) Last year President Trump made statements that left the impression he believed…

  • Looking at Indians, white Americans see themselves

    Thinking about natives in an era of nativism