{"id":24453,"date":"2012-07-22T19:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24453"},"modified":"2012-07-22T19:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T19:40:52","slug":"equality-trouble-sameness-and-difference-in-twentieth-century-race-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24453","title":{"rendered":"Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.berkeley.edu\/californialawreview\/vol88\/iss6\/6\/\" target=\"_blank\">Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californialawreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Law Review<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 88, Issue 6 (2000)<br \/>\npages 1923-2015<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.ucdavis.edu\/faculty\/Harris\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Angela P. Harris<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Law<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Davis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this Essay, Professor Harris suggests that &#8220;race law&#8221; consists not only of antidiscrimination law, but law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial groups, as well as the law regulating the relationships among these groups. Harris argues that a constant tension in the story of race law in the past century has been the effort to reconcile constitutional and statutory norms of equality with the desire for white dominance. In the first part of the century, it was assumed that the fact of racial difference required management through sound public policy; in the second part of the century, race gradually became understood as an arbitrary distinction that the law should ignore. <strong>Neither treating race as difference nor as sameness, however, has succeeded in accomplishing racial justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarship.law.berkeley.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1473&amp;context=californialawreview\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equality Trouble: Sameness and Difference in Twentieth-Century Race Law California Law Review Volume 88, Issue 6 (2000) pages 1923-2015 Angela P. Harris, Professor of Law University of California, Davis In this Essay, Professor Harris suggests that &#8220;race law&#8221; consists not only of antidiscrimination law, but law pertaining to the formation, recognition, and maintenance of racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1467,8,20],"tags":[2888,5865,4571],"class_list":["post-24453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-angela-harris","tag-angela-p-harris","tag-california-law-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}