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Law and Race

2015

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How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington Dec 2015

How Much Diversity Can The Us Constitution Stand?, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

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Visualizing Abolition: Two Graphic Novels And A Critical Approach To Mass Incarceration For The Composition Classroom, Michael Sutcliffe Sep 2015

Visualizing Abolition: Two Graphic Novels And A Critical Approach To Mass Incarceration For The Composition Classroom, Michael Sutcliffe

SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education

This article outlines two graphic novels and an accompanying activity designed to unpack complicated intersections between racism, poverty, and (d)evolving criminal-legal policy. Over 2 million adults are held in U.S. prison facilities, and several million more are under custodial supervision, and it has become clearly unsustainable. In the last decade, there has been a shift in media conversations about criminality, yet only a few suggest decreasing our reliance upon incarceration. In meaningfully different ways, the two novels trace the development of incarceration from its roots in slavery to its contemporary anti-democratic iteration and offer an underpublicized alternative.

Critical and community …

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The Mismatch Myth In U.S. Higher Education: A Synthesis Of The Empirical Evidence At The Law School And Undergraduate Levels, William C. Kidder, Richard O. Lempert Jan 2015

The Mismatch Myth In U.S. Higher Education: A Synthesis Of The Empirical Evidence At The Law School And Undergraduate Levels, William C. Kidder, Richard O. Lempert

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Opponents of affirmative action in higher education commonly cite two principles to justify their opposition. One is that admissions to institutions of higher education should be based on "merit," which is often treated by critics of affirmative action as consisting of little more than test score results and high school or undergraduate grades. The second is the legal and moral imperative of not making consequential decisions based on race. We shall not address these principles except to note that others have shown that they do not make the case against affirmative action (Carbado & Harris 2008, Shultz & Zedeck 2011, …

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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 Dec 2014

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 …

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