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Making Up Women: Casinos, Cosmetics, And Title Vii, David B. Cruz

Nevada Law Journal

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Rebellious Lawyering, Settlement, And Reconciliation: Soko Bukai V. Ywca, Bill Ong Hing

Nevada Law Journal

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The Mississippi Of The West?, Michael S. Green

Nevada Law Journal

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"Justice Is Slow But Sure": The Civil Rights Movement In The West: 1950-1970, Quintard Taylor

Nevada Law Journal

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Foreword: Pursuing Equal Justice In The West, Lynne Henderson

Nevada Law Journal

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The March That Never Happened: Desegregating The Las Vegas Strip, Claytee White

Nevada Law Journal

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Adventures In Heteronormativity: The Straight Line From Liberace To Lawrence, Joan W. Howarth

Nevada Law Journal

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Driver's Licenses And Undocumented Immigrants: The Future Of Civil Rights Law?, Kevin R. Johnson

Nevada Law Journal

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Uneasy Tensions Between Children's Rights And Civil Rights, Annette Ruth Appell

Nevada Law Journal

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The Turner Thesis, Black Migration, And The (Misapplied) Immigrant Explanation Of Black Inequality, John Valery White

Nevada Law Journal

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The Plight Of Same-Sex Harassment Victims Under Title Vii: Why Sexual Orientation Discrimination Should Be Recognized As A Form Of Sex Stereotyping, Sonya K. Parrish

Nevada Law Journal

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Masculinities At Work, Ann C. Mcginley

Scholarly Works

This article focuses on the study of masculinities, a body of theoretical and empirical work by sociologists, feminist theorists and organization management theorists. This work, much of which employment law scholars have ignored, studies the role of masculinities, which are often invisible, in creating structural barriers to the advancement of many women and some men at work. Masculinities comprise both a structure that reinforces the superiority of men over women and a series of practices, associated with masculine behavior, performed by men or women, that aid men to maintain their superior position over women. In their less visible form, masculinities …

The Turner Thesis, Black Migration, And The (Misapplied) Immigrant Explanation Of Black Poverty, John Valery White

Scholarly Works

Underlying most debates of racial inequality is the tacit reference to the Immigrant Tale, a story of “natural” class ascension of immigrant groups in the “land of opportunity.” This tale is affirming, celebrating the assimilation of ethnic immigrants in the American “melting pot.” It is also optimistic, implying social integration and economic parity of currently dissipated immigrant communities. “Its thrust is to defend the individualistic view of the American system because it portrays the system as open to those who are willing to work hard and pull themselves over barriers of poverty and discrimination.”

But there is an unsavory element …

What Is Affirmative Action?, John Valery White

Scholarly Works

There is no rigorous definition of affirmative action. This Article argues that this remarkable circumstance has distorted and undercut American antidiscrimination law.

Though affirmative action is vigorously and widely debated, it has not been defined in the rigorous manner legal commentators would normally demand. Rather, commentators have deferred to policymakers' descriptions of affirmative action programs and employed those “definitions” to set the terms of policy debates over the propriety of affirmative action. Typically, commentators take for granted that affirmative action is “discriminatory” and seek to justify its use in certain contexts. This approach is also prominent in the United States …