Tag: Camille A. Nelson

  • In 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional in Loving vs. Virginia. Although this case promotes marital freedom and racial equality, there are still significant legal and social barriers to the free formation of intimate relationships.

  • I read the identitarian discourses surrounding Obama differently. The posing of these questions around identity betrays our subconscious recognition that we are not there yet—we remain burdened by a default racial calculus. Even the semantics of being post-racial reveals the persistence of race and racial constructions. We do not even have terminology, let alone the…

  • Racial Paradox and Eclipse: Obama as a Balm for What Ails Us Denver University Law Review Volume 86, Special Issue (Obama Phenomena: A Special Issue on the Election of President Barack Obama (2009) pages 743-783 Camille A. Nelson, Dean and Professor of Law Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts I. Introduction The 2008 political season provided us…