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The Constitutionality Of Affirmative Action: Views From The Supreme Court, Jesse H. Choper
The Constitutionality Of Affirmative Action: Views From The Supreme Court, Jesse H. Choper
Jesse H Choper
No abstract provided.
Thinking About The Supreme Court's Successes And Failures, Erwin Chemerinsky
Thinking About The Supreme Court's Successes And Failures, Erwin Chemerinsky
Erwin Chemerinsky
The Supreme Court often has failed at its most important tasks and at the most important times. I set out this thesis at the beginning the book:
To be clear, I am not saying that the Supreme Court has failed at these crucial tasks every time. Making a case against the Supreme Court does not require taking such an extreme position. I also will talk about areas where the Court has succeeded in protecting minorities and in enforcing the limits of the Constitution. My claim is that the Court has often failed where and when it has been most needed. …
The Deserving Poor, The Undeserving Poor, And Class-Based Affirmative Action, Khiara M. Bridges
The Deserving Poor, The Undeserving Poor, And Class-Based Affirmative Action, Khiara M. Bridges
Khiara M Bridges
This Article is a critique of class-based affirmative action. It begins by observing that many professed politically conservative individuals have championed class-based affirmative action. However, it observes that political conservatism is not typically identified as an ideology that generally approves of improving the poor’s well-being through the means that class-based affirmative action employs — that is, through redistributing wealth by taking wealth from a wealthy individual and giving it directly to a poor person. This is precisely what class-based affirmative action does: it takes a seat in an incoming class (a species of wealth) from a wealthy individual and gives …
Class-Based Affirmative Action, Or The Lies That We Tell About The Insignificance Of Race, Khiara Bridges
Class-Based Affirmative Action, Or The Lies That We Tell About The Insignificance Of Race, Khiara Bridges
Khiara M Bridges
This Article conducts a critique of class-based affirmative action, identifying and problematizing the narrative that it tells about racial progress. The Article argues that class-based affirmative action denies that race is a significant feature of American life. It denies that individuals - and groups - continue to be advantaged and disadvantaged on account of race. It denies that there is such a thing called race privilege that materially impacts people’s worlds. Moreover, this Article suggests that at least part of the reason why class-based affirmative action has been embraced by those who oppose race-based affirmative action is precisely because it …
More Than Just The Numbers: Fisher V. Texas And The Practical Impact Of Texas’S Top Ten Percent Law, Shakira D. Pleasant
More Than Just The Numbers: Fisher V. Texas And The Practical Impact Of Texas’S Top Ten Percent Law, Shakira D. Pleasant
Shakira D. Pleasant
No abstract provided.
The Color Of Perspective: Affirmative Action And The Constitutional Rhetoric Of White Innocence, Cecil J. Hunt Ii
The Color Of Perspective: Affirmative Action And The Constitutional Rhetoric Of White Innocence, Cecil J. Hunt Ii
Cecil J. Hunt II
This Article discusses the Supreme Court's use of the rhetoric of White innocence in deciding racially-inflected claims of constitutional shelter. It argues that the Court's use of this rhetoric reveals its adoption of a distinctly White-centered perspective, representing a one-sided view of racial reality that distorts the Court's ability to accurately appreciate the true nature of racial reality in contemporary America. This Article examines the Court's habit of using a White-centered perspective in constitutional race cases. Specifically, it looks at the Court's use of the rhetoric of White innocence in the context of the Court's concern with protecting "innocent" Whites …
Eight Is [Not] Enough: A Review Of The 2015-2016 U.S. Supreme Court Term, Miller W. Shealy Jr.
Eight Is [Not] Enough: A Review Of The 2015-2016 U.S. Supreme Court Term, Miller W. Shealy Jr.
Miller W. Shealy Jr.
No abstract provided.
The Need For Self-Imposed Quotas In Academic Employment, Herma Hill Kay
The Need For Self-Imposed Quotas In Academic Employment, Herma Hill Kay
Herma Hill Kay
No abstract provided.
Ferguson, Fisher, And The Future: Diversity And Inclusion As A Remedy For Implicit Racial Bias, Ann M. Killenbeck
Ferguson, Fisher, And The Future: Diversity And Inclusion As A Remedy For Implicit Racial Bias, Ann M. Killenbeck
Ann Killenbeck
Echoes From The Segregationist Past At Oral Argument, Mary Ellen Maatman
Echoes From The Segregationist Past At Oral Argument, Mary Ellen Maatman
Mary Ellen Maatman
Not All Black And White, Alan E. Garfield
Agency, Equality, And Antidiscrimination Law, Tracy E. Higgins, Laura A. Rosenbury
Agency, Equality, And Antidiscrimination Law, Tracy E. Higgins, Laura A. Rosenbury
Laura A. Rosenbury
Some commentators, perhaps a minority, have argued that the Equal Protection Clause should be read to require the use of race-conscious policies when necessary to eradicate or remedy the most serious consequences of racial inequality. Others have argued that such policies, though not required, should be permitted when duly adopted by the majority of the populace to promote the interests of an historically oppressed minority. Still others, including now a majority of the Supreme Court, take the view that the Constitution forbids virtually all explicit uses of race by the state. In this Essay, we do not enter this debate …
The False Choice Between Race And Class And Other Affirmative Action Myths, Lisa R. Pruitt
The False Choice Between Race And Class And Other Affirmative Action Myths, Lisa R. Pruitt
Lisa R Pruitt
Reflections On Racism And World Order, Winston P. Nagan
Reflections On Racism And World Order, Winston P. Nagan
Winston P Nagan
This Article is about international racism. Racism is not simply a local or national phenomenon, it is an immense global problem. Indeed, its tentacles stretch from the local to the global and back to the local. Let us put the picture of international racism into perspective by tying it to the claims made to eradicate racism in economic relations. Apart from affirmative action, there are two other approaches: either to assert the notion that reparations is a way to ameliorate the worst manifestations of racism and provide for racial justice, or to join that with the notion that there is …
Title Vii V. Seniority: The Supreme Court Giveth And The Supreme Court Taketh Away, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Title Vii V. Seniority: The Supreme Court Giveth And The Supreme Court Taketh Away, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Berta E. Hernández-Truyol
Congress intended to solve the widespread problem of nonegalitarian hiring practices by enacting title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the Act), during the apogee of the civil rights era. The Act represented a national commitment to end discrimination and to promote equality in employment. The enactment of title VII spawned extensive commentary on the effect of facially neutral employment practices that perpetuated pre-Act discrimination. Particular controversy arose concerning the application of seniority rules to blacks in jobs or seniority units from which they previously had been excluded because of their race.
The problem of accommodating seniority systems …
Affirmative Action And The Decline Of Intellectual Culture, Charles W. Collier
Affirmative Action And The Decline Of Intellectual Culture, Charles W. Collier
Charles W. Collier
No abstract provided.
The Constitutional Rhetoric Of White Innocence
The Constitutional Rhetoric Of White Innocence
Cecil J. Hunt II
This article discusses the Supreme Court’s use of the rhetoric of white innocence in deciding racially inflected claims of constitutional shelter. It argues that the Court’s use of this rhetoric reveals that it has adopted a distinctly white-centered-perspective which reveals only a one-sided view of racial reality and thus distorts its ability to accurately appreciate the true nature of racial reality in contemporary America. This article examines the Court’s habit of consistently choosing a white-centered-perspective in constitutional race cases by looking at the Court’s use of the rhetoric of white innocence first in the context of the Court’s concern with …
Racial Profiling: Driving While Mexican And Affirmative Action, Victor C. Romero
Racial Profiling: Driving While Mexican And Affirmative Action, Victor C. Romero
Victor C. Romero
This Essay will focus on "racial profiling" not just in the way people think about the term - that is, with respect to stopping motorists for traffic violations based solely on their race, so-called "Driving While Mexican" or "Driving While Black" - but also in the context of "affirmative action - namely, using race as a factor in employment and educational decisions. More broadly, then, I want us to think of "racial profiling" as simply "the use of race to develop an understanding of an individual" which moves us slightly away from more pejorative notions of the phrase that have …
Are Filipina/Os Asians Or Latina/Os?: Reclaiming The Anti-Subordination Objective Of Equal Protection After Grutter And Gratz, Victor C. Romero
Are Filipina/Os Asians Or Latina/Os?: Reclaiming The Anti-Subordination Objective Of Equal Protection After Grutter And Gratz, Victor C. Romero
Victor C. Romero
In this piece, I explore two avenues of political action - self-identification for affirmative action purposes and longer-term solutions to educational inequity - in an attempt to develop a coherent and effective post-Grutter and Gratz strategy for promoting equal educational opportunities consistent with the demands of equal protection. I use the experiences of Filipina/o-Americans as a vehicle for exploring these issues. I hope to show that diversity as the underlying goal of affirmative action fails to capture the core of modern equal protection jurisprudence implicit in Brown v. Board of Education and Loving v. Virginia: that treating all races equally …
Critical Race Theory In Three Acts: Racial Profiling, Affirmative Action, And The Diversity Visa Lottery, Victor C. Romero
Critical Race Theory In Three Acts: Racial Profiling, Affirmative Action, And The Diversity Visa Lottery, Victor C. Romero
Victor C. Romero
The usual debates surrounding multiculturalism pit individual rights against group grievances in a variety of contexts including racial profiling, affirmative action, and the diversity visa lottery, often with seemingly contradictory results. Liberals often favor affirmative action but decry both racial profiling and the diversity visa lottery, while many conservatives hold the opposite view. Critical race theory provides a unique alternative to stock liberal and conservative arguments, allowing one to draw meaningful and persuasive distinctions among these seminal issues surrounding law enforcement, education, and immigration policy.
Broadening Our World: Citizens And Immigrants Of Color In America, Victor C. Romero
Broadening Our World: Citizens And Immigrants Of Color In America, Victor C. Romero
Victor C. Romero
This article was originally presented at a symposium. The article discusses affirmative action and ways of increasing diversity in higher education.
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres
No abstract provided.
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Grutter V. Bollinger/Gratz V. Bollinger: View From A Limestone Ledge, Gerald Torres
Gerald Torres
No abstract provided.
Fisher V. Texas: The Limits Of Exhaustion And The Future Of Race-Conscious University Admissions, John Powell, Stephen Menendian
Fisher V. Texas: The Limits Of Exhaustion And The Future Of Race-Conscious University Admissions, John Powell, Stephen Menendian
john a. powell
This Article investigates the potential ramifications of Fisher v. Texas and the future of race-conscious university admissions. Although one cannot predict the ultimate significance of the Fisher decision, its brief and pregnant statements of law portends an increasingly perilous course for traditional affirmative action programs. Part I explores the opinions filed in Fisher, with a particular emphasis on Justice Kennedy’s opinion on behalf of the Court. We focus on the ways in which the Fisher decision departs from precedent, proscribes new limits on the use of race in university admissions, and tightens requirements for narrow tailoring. Part II investigates the …
Judicial Decision-Making, Social Science Evidence, And Equal Educational Opportunity: Uneasy Relations And Uncertain Futures, Michael Heise
Judicial Decision-Making, Social Science Evidence, And Equal Educational Opportunity: Uneasy Relations And Uncertain Futures, Michael Heise
Michael Heise
No abstract provided.
Affirmative Action In Higher Education Over The Next Twenty-Five Years: A Need For Study And Action, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stewart Schwab
Affirmative Action In Higher Education Over The Next Twenty-Five Years: A Need For Study And Action, Sandra Day O'Connor, Stewart Schwab
Stewart J Schwab
No abstract provided.
Who's Afraid Of White Class Migrants? On Denial, Discrediting, And Disdain (And Toward A Richer Conception Of Diversity), Lisa R. Pruitt
Who's Afraid Of White Class Migrants? On Denial, Discrediting, And Disdain (And Toward A Richer Conception Of Diversity), Lisa R. Pruitt
Lisa R Pruitt
The False Choice Between Race And Class And Other Affirmative Action Myths, Lisa R. Pruitt
The False Choice Between Race And Class And Other Affirmative Action Myths, Lisa R. Pruitt
Lisa R Pruitt
This article refutes the widely held assumption that affirmative action is appropriate either to support only racial and ethnic minorities or to support only low-income students, but that it cannot or should not support both. Pruitt argues that we need not make such a choice and that we should aspire to socioeconomically diversify higher education institutions—including the most elite sector—with low-income students of all colors. Pruitt thus disputes the framing of Richard Kahlenberg and Richard Sander who have long argued that we should seek socioeconomic diversity in lieu of racial/ethnic diversity, a stance that has needlessly pitted underrepresented minorities against …
Probabilities In Probable Cause And Beyond: Statistical Versus Concrete Harms, Sherry F. Colb
Probabilities In Probable Cause And Beyond: Statistical Versus Concrete Harms, Sherry F. Colb
Sherry Colb
No abstract provided.
The Constitution According To Justices Scalia And Thomas: Alive And Kickin', Eric J. Segall
The Constitution According To Justices Scalia And Thomas: Alive And Kickin', Eric J. Segall
Eric J. Segall
No abstract provided.