{"id":31506,"date":"2013-06-05T04:56:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T04:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31506"},"modified":"2015-03-29T20:17:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:17:54","slug":"antidiscrimination-law-and-the-multiracial-experience-a-reply-to-nancy-leong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31506","title":{"rendered":"Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/tina_botts\/1\/\" target=\"_blank\">Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.uchastings.edu\/journals\/websites\/race-poverty\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 10, Summer 2013<br \/>\npages 191-218<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/philosophy.uncc.edu\/tina-fernandes-botts\" target=\"_blank\">Tina F. Botts<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pre-law Advisor<br \/>\n<em>University of North Carolina at Charlotte<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/law.du.edu\/index.php\/profile\/nancy-leong\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Leong\u2019s<\/a> thesis, in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5358\" target=\"_blank\">Judicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination<\/a>,\u201d is that antidiscrimination law should make a switch from defining race \u201ccategorically\u201d to defining it in terms of the perception of the would-be discriminator so as to better accommodate claims of multiracial discrimination and so as to better achieve what Leong sees as the goals of antidiscrimination law, i.e., the promotion of racial understanding, and the elimination of racism and racial discrimination. But, while Leong\u2019s goals are admirable, the method she proposes for achieving these goals will not succeed. Antidiscrimination law cannot operate to promote racial understanding, or to eliminate racism and racial discrimination, because it was not designed to achieve these goals. Moreover, a switch in focus on the part of antidiscrimination courts from \u201ccategorical\u201d race to \u201cperceived\u201d race will not render antidiscrimination law more accommodating to claims of multiracial discrimination. Such a shift would instead operate to further exclude multiracial plaintiffs from protection against discrimination. A more effective way of modifying antidiscrimination law so as to render it better able to accommodate claims of multiracial discrimination is to call courts (1) to remember that discrimination is something that happens to social groups and not to individuals, and (2) to include multiracial persons among the groups of persons specially protected from discrimination.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/context\/tina_botts\/article\/1000\/type\/native\/viewcontent\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antidiscrimination Law and the Multiracial Experience: A Reply to Nancy Leong Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal Volume 10, Summer 2013 pages 191-218 Tina F. Botts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Pre-law Advisor University of North Carolina at Charlotte Nancy Leong\u2019s thesis, in \u201cJudicial Erasure of Mixed-Race Discrimination,\u201d is that antidiscrimination law should make a switch [&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":[14853,1959,14852,14851,14850],"class_list":["post-31506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-law","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-hastings-race-and-poverty-law-journal","tag-nancy-leong","tag-tina-botts","tag-tina-f-botts","tag-tina-fernandes-botts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506","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=31506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}