Category: Law

  • In “Blinded by Sight,” Obasogie argues that rather than being visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people “see” race.

  • Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs 102 Jones Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Monday, 2013-12-09, 12:00-13:20 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…

  • American Identity in the Age of Obama Routledge 2013-11-28 250 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-72201-8 Edited by: Amílcar Antonio Barreto, Associate Professor of Political Science Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Richard L. O’Bryant, Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the John D. O’Bryant African American Institute Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts The election of Barack Obama as…

  • All in the Family: Interracial Intimacy, Racial Fictions, and the Law California Law Review Circuit Volume 4 (November 2013) pages 179-186 D. Wendy Greene, Professor of Law Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama Professor Wendy Greene highlights the continued importance of analyzing interracial relationships in the framework of the law in her review…

  • There’s a long story behind ‘anti-Haitianismo’ in the Dominican Republic PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2013-11-14 Christopher Woolf, Producer Tens of thousands of people in the Dominican Republic are being stripped of their citizenship, on the grounds that they or their ancestors were illegal immigrants.  Thousands have already been deported across the border to…

  • As part of a new collaboration with the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, NolaVie will spotlight entries from KnowLA.org—the Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana, including unique events and people in our state’s history. This month, we commemorate the end of Storyville. On November 12th, 1917, Mayor Martin Behrman acquiesced to pressure from the US Navy and…

  • Red: Racism and the American Indian UCLA Law Review Volume 56, Issue 3 (February 2009) pages 591-656 Bethany R. Berger, Thomas F. Gallivan, Jr. Professor of Real Property Law University of Connecticut How does racism work in American Indian law and policy? Scholarship on the subject too often has assumed that racism works for Indians…

  • Beyond Our Hearts: The Ecology of Couple Relationships California Law Review Circuit Volume 4, October 2013 pages 155-164 Holning Lau, Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law In his review of Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig’s book, According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family, Professor Holning Lau…

  • According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family Yale University Press 2013-06-18 344 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 30 b/w illus. Cloth ISBN: 9780300166828 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa This landmark book looks at what it means to be…

  • Brazil in Black and White Wide Angle Public Broadcasting Service 2007-09-04 About the Issue As one of the most racially diverse nations in the world, Brazil has long considered itself a colorblind “racial democracy.” But deep disparities in income, education and employment between lighter and darker-skinned Brazilians have prompted a civil rights movement advocating equal…