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Revisiting The Work We Know So Little About: Race, Wealth, Privilege, And Social Justice, Stephanie M. Wildman, Margalynne Armstrong, Beverly Moran Dec 2012

Revisiting The Work We Know So Little About: Race, Wealth, Privilege, And Social Justice, Stephanie M. Wildman, Margalynne Armstrong, Beverly Moran

UC Irvine Law Review

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Families Of Color In Crisis: Bearing The Weight Of The Financial Market Meltdown, André Douglas Pond Cummings Jul 2012

Families Of Color In Crisis: Bearing The Weight Of The Financial Market Meltdown, André Douglas Pond Cummings

Faculty Scholarship

The financial market crisis of 2008 landed heaviest and hardest upon communities of color. In the minority communities that continue to bear the crushing weight of this crisis—which continues unrequited—women of color, and by extension, their families, are by far the group most devastated by the global market meltdown. In an ultimate irony, most economists, scholars, and commentators now agree that the collapse, which continues to ravage Main Street, was caused primarily by a select group of privileged white men–i.e., Wall Street executives, bankers, and the politicians purchased by Wall Street largess. The impact of Wall Street’s fascination with securitizing …


Achieving Reproductive Justice In The International Surrogacy Market, Seema Mohapatra Jan 2012

Achieving Reproductive Justice In The International Surrogacy Market, Seema Mohapatra

Faculty Scholarship

Men and women are increasingly seeking surrogacy arrangements outside of their home country, mainly due to legal restrictions or the high cost of surrogacy in their home countries. Global surrogacy raises numerous issues including the economic status of women involved in surrogacy arrangements, poverty, issues related to what motherhood means and how women from different ethnic, socioeconomic, class, and national backgrounds interact in the global surrogacy market. This essay analyzes whether reproductive justice exists in the current international surrogacy market. Reproductive justice refers to the normative concept that all women, regardless of their ethnic, racial, national, social, or economic backgrounds, …