Category: Law

  • Were the riots about race? The Guardian 2011-12-08 Reading the Riots: Investigating England’s summer of disorder In partnership with the London School of Economics Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Open Society Foundations Hugh Muir, Diary Editor Yemisi Adegoke, Freelance Journalist Some commentators were quick to call them ‘race riots’, but the true…

  • Hypodescent: A history of the crystallization of the one-drop rule in the United States, 1880-1940 Princeton University September 2011 383 pages Publication Number: AAT 3480237 ISBN: 9781124939179 Scott Leon Washington A DISSERTATION PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY RECOMMENDED FOR ACCEPTANCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF…

  • ’Marginal Whiteness California Law Review Volume 98, Number 5 (October 2010) pages 1497-1594 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California How are whites injured by minority-targeted racism? Prior to filing her Title VII interracial solidarity claim, Betty Clayton thought she knew. For years, Clayton, a white cafeteria worker employed by the…

  • Check One Box: Reconsidering Directive No. 15 and the Classification of Mixed-Race People California Law Review Volume 84, Number 4 (July, 1996) pages 1233-1291 Kenneth E. Payson Introduction “What are you?” As the child of a Japanese mother and a White father, I have often been asked this question. While I am also male, heterosexual,…

  • A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana Louisiana State University Press April 2011 328 pages 6 x 9 inches, 21 halftones Hardcover ISBN: 9780807137932 Alexander P. Tureaud, Jr. Rachel L. Emanuel Throughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was…

  • Black Pluralism in Post Loving America Chapter in: Loving vs. Virginia in a Post-Racial World: Rethinking Race, Sex, and Marriage Cambridge University Press May 2012 300 pages Hardback ISBN-13: 9780521198585 Paperback ISBN-13: 9780521147989 Edited by Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Rose Cuison Villazor, Associate Professor of Law Hofstra University Chapter Author…

  • The Anatomy of Grey: A Theory of Interracial Convergence College of Law Faculty Scholarship Paper 74 January 2008 56 pages Kevin Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University Janis L. McDonald, Professor of Law Syracuse University This article offers a theory of racial identity divorced from biological considerations. Law fails to recognize the complexity of…

  • Racial Classification and History Routledge 1997-02-01 376 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-8153-2602-1 Edited by E. Nathaniel Gates (1955-2006) Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Yeshiva University Explores the concept of “race” The term “race,” which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning.…

  • The Negro Defined The Yale Law Journal Volume 20, Number 3 (January, 1911) pages 224-225 In many of the states where a considerable portion of the population is colored, statutes define the term negro and establish his status where the same is considered, because of local conditions, as essentially different from that of Caucasians. Where…

  • TV Review: Mixed Race Britain – Mixed Britannia BioNews Number 630 (2011-10-24) Anoushka Shepherd Mixed Race Britain: Mixed Britannia, BBC2, 6-20 October 2011, Presented by George Alagiah I am mixed race, and thereby a member the fastest growing ethnic minority in the UK. My British dad met my Sri Lankan mum while travelling in the…