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Healthcare Reparations In California, Chelsea J. Gaudet
Healthcare Reparations In California, Chelsea J. Gaudet
San Diego Law Review
The Reparations Task Force has recommended several key areas in which the state of California can offer reparations for its systemic abuse of African Americans. The Interim Report issued by the Task Force highlights the discrepancy in health outcomes for White Californians versus Black Californians and attributes the difference not just to inequitable access, but also to a special compounding effect of physical and mental stress suffered solely by Black Californians as a result of systemic and personal environmental racial discrimination.
This Essay discusses the unique aspects of “weathering” and the insidious effect of racial bias in research meant to …
Get Out: Structural Racism And Academic Terror, Renee Nicole Allen
Get Out: Structural Racism And Academic Terror, Renee Nicole Allen
William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice
Released in 2017, Jordan Peele’s critically acclaimed film Get Out explores the horrors of racism. The film’s plot involves the murder and appropriation of Black bodies for the benefit of wealthy, white people. After luring Black people to their country home, a white family uses hypnosis to paralyze victims and send them to the Sunken Place where screams go unheard. Black bodies are auctioned off to the highest bidder; the winner’s brain is transplanted into the prized Black body. Black victims are rendered passengers in their own bodies so that white inhabitants can obtain physical advantages and immortality.
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Racial Myopia In [Family] Law, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Racial Myopia In [Family] Law, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Racial Myopia in [Family] Law presents a critique of Family Law for the One-Hundred-Year Life, an Article that claims that age myopia within family law fails older adults and prevents them from creating legal bonds with other adults outside the traditional marital model. This Response posits that racial myopia is a common yet complex phenomenon in almost every area of law, and it presents most often by centering whiteness as the default standard while failing to account for race and its impact on the law. Race—as well as the scholarship that incorporates race into normative family structure and identity—must be …
Reducing Community Violence While Protecting Civil Rights, Kami Chavis
Reducing Community Violence While Protecting Civil Rights, Kami Chavis
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