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Racial Indirection, Yuvraj Joshi
Racial Indirection, Yuvraj Joshi
Yuvraj Joshi
Racial indirection describes practices that produce racially disproportionate results without the overt use of race. This Article demonstrates how racial indirection has allowed — and may continue to allow — efforts to desegregate America’s universities. By analyzing the Supreme Court’s affirmative action cases, the Article shows how specific features of affirmative action doctrine have required and incentivized racial indirection, and how these same features have helped sustain the constitutionality of affirmative action to this point. There is a basic constitutional principle that emerges from these cases: so long as the end is constitutionally permissible, the less direct the reliance on …
How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington
How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington
Tanya Monique Washington
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Measuring The Influence Of Juvenile Arrest On The Odds Of Four-Year College Enrollment For Black Males: An Nlsy Analysis, Royel Johnson
Measuring The Influence Of Juvenile Arrest On The Odds Of Four-Year College Enrollment For Black Males: An Nlsy Analysis, Royel Johnson
Dr. Royel M. Johnson
Black youth make up just 16% of public school students
in the United States, though they constitute 31% of all juvenile arrests,
with Black males outnumbering females. Very little is known from
research about the long-term consequences of such contact on their
odds of college enrollment. Thus, the purpose of this study was to
measure the relationship between Black males’ early contact with the
criminal justice system through arrest and their probability of enrolling
in a four-year college using a nationally representative sample
of approximately 1,100 Black males who participated in the National
Longitudinal Study of Youth (1997). Survey …