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Foreword: Expanding The Debate On Race, Poverty, Social Justice, And The Law, Margaret M. Russell
Foreword: Expanding The Debate On Race, Poverty, Social Justice, And The Law, Margaret M. Russell
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
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Reclaiming Civil Rights In Uncivil Times, Eric K. Yamamoto
Reclaiming Civil Rights In Uncivil Times, Eric K. Yamamoto
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
Three Cs: Celebration, Caution, and Challenge. Three C's of both worry and hope. The first C is to celebrate the Civil Rights Movement's accomplishments, then and now-the innumerable ways as the movement broadened it has bettered the daily lives of communities of color and, indeed, all Americans. The second C is caution-to caution against the dismantling of civil rights fueled in part by the conservative New Federalism. The third C is challenge-to envision our role in justice struggles in the post-September 11th Bush-Ashcroft era and, specifically, to think hard about what "Civil Rights" now means and why "Reclaiming Civil Rights' …
Beyond Reparations: Accommodating Wrongs Or Honoring Resistance, Natsu Taylor Saito
Beyond Reparations: Accommodating Wrongs Or Honoring Resistance, Natsu Taylor Saito
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
Reparations for historic wrongs, particularly those done to large groups of people on the basis of their racially constructed identity, is a topic of much current debate. Because the harm caused by such injustices can never really be repaired, the question becomes one of what kind of acknowledgement and direct compensation to victims is appropriate and, more fundamentally, whether the institutional structures that perpetuate such wrongs have been changed to ensure that the injuries are not perpetuated or repeated. Applying some lessons learned from redress to Japanese Americans interned during World War I, this essay suggests that movements for reparations …
Officer, Where's My Stuff - The Constitutional Implications Of A De Facto Property Disability For Homeless People, Kevin Bundy
Officer, Where's My Stuff - The Constitutional Implications Of A De Facto Property Disability For Homeless People, Kevin Bundy
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
As municipalities across the nation employ increasingly aggressive anti-homeless policies, homeless people are suffering seizure and destruction of their personal belongings without due process or compensation. Courts generally have not proven receptive to homeless people's claims based on loss of personal property, in some instances refusing to recognize that the homeless can exercise any legally protected property interest at all. Homeless existence itself-a lack of private, defensible space in which to perform basic life functions and secure ownership over personal belongings-leaves homeless people with no legally sanctioned place in which to dwell, and exposes them to arbitrary deprivations of whatever …
Immigration, Civil Rights, And Coalitions For Social Justice, Kevin R. Johnson
Immigration, Civil Rights, And Coalitions For Social Justice, Kevin R. Johnson
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
The treatment of "aliens," particularly noncitizens of color, under the U.S. immigration laws reveals volumes about domestic race relations in the nation. A deeply complicated, often volatile, relationship exists between racism directed toward U.S. citizens and that aimed at noncitizens. The United States has a long history of treating racial minorities in the United States harshly, at times savagely. Noncitizen racial minorities, as foreigners not part of the national community, generally have been subject to similar, although not identical, cruelties but also have suffered deportation, indefinite detention, and more. One need look to further than the treatment of Arab and …
Refugee Policy And Cultural Identity: In The Voice Of Hmong And Iu Mien Young Adults, Bill Ong Hing
Refugee Policy And Cultural Identity: In The Voice Of Hmong And Iu Mien Young Adults, Bill Ong Hing
UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice
U.S. refugee admission and resettlement policies have helped to shape the cultural identities of refugees in America in unanticipated ways. In this article, the author examines the effects of these policies on the young adult members of two small Laotian refugee groups-the Hmong and the Iu Mien. After reviewing the ad hoc admission and resettlement programs of the federal government, the author reviews a collection of interviews of young college students and discovers a range of attitudes on identity, mainstream culture, religion, and the desire to maintain ethnic culture. The cultural identity being developed by Ju Mien and Hmong young …