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"Immigrants Are Not Criminals": Respectability, Immigration Reform, And Hyperincarceration, Rebecca Sharpless Dec 2015

"Immigrants Are Not Criminals": Respectability, Immigration Reform, And Hyperincarceration, Rebecca Sharpless

Rebecca Sharpless

Scholars and law reformers advocate for better treatment of immigrants by invoking a contrast with people convicted of a crime. This Article details the harms and limitations of a conceptual framework that relies on a contrast with people—citizens and noncitizens—who have been convicted of a criminal offense and proposes an alternate approach that better aligns with the racial critique of our criminal justice system. Noncitizens with a criminal record are overwhelmingly low-income people of color. While some have been in the United States for a short period of time, many have resided in the United States for much longer. Many …

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Debunking The Myth Of Civil Rights Liberalism: Visions Of Racial Justice In The Thought Of T. Thomas Fortune, 1880-1890, Susan D. Carle Mar 2010

Debunking The Myth Of Civil Rights Liberalism: Visions Of Racial Justice In The Thought Of T. Thomas Fortune, 1880-1890, Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

n recent years, the supposed achievements of the American civil rights movement have come under attack as part of a critique of the ideology of legal liberalism. That critique argues that civil rights lawyers and other activists too greatly emphasized court-focused strategies aimed at achieving what would turn out to be pyrrhic "civil" rights victories - i.e., gains solely in "formal" equality in requirements enshrined in law as to how the state should treat its citizens. This critique of legal liberalism is well deserved insofar as it is aimed at a tendency within legal academia to extol the virtues of …

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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering In An Unjust Society, Taunya Lovell Banks Jun 2008

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering In An Unjust Society, Taunya Lovell Banks

Taunya Lovell Banks

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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering In An Unjust Society, Taunya Lovell Banks Jun 2008

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering In An Unjust Society, Taunya Lovell Banks

Taunya Lovell Banks

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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering In An Unjust Society, Taunya Lovell Banks Jun 2008

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962): Lawyering In An Unjust Society, Taunya Lovell Banks

Taunya Lovell Banks

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