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Seen But Not Recognized: Black Caregivers, Childhood Cruelties, And Social Dislocations In An Increasingly Colored America, Reginald Leamon Robinson
Seen But Not Recognized: Black Caregivers, Childhood Cruelties, And Social Dislocations In An Increasingly Colored America, Reginald Leamon Robinson
West Virginia Law Review
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Race, American Law And The State Of Nature, George A. Martinez
Race, American Law And The State Of Nature, George A. Martinez
West Virginia Law Review
This Article advances a new theoretical framework to help explain and understand race and American law. In particular, the Article argues that we can employ a philosophical model to attempt to understand what often occurs when the dominant group deals with persons of color. The Article contends that when the dominant group acts with great power or lack of constraint, it often acts as though it were in what political philosophers have called the state of nature. Thus, the Article argues that there is a tendency for the dominant group to act as though it were in the state of …