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Vulnerability And Power In The Age Of The Anthropocene, Angela Harris Feb 2014

Vulnerability And Power In The Age Of The Anthropocene, Angela Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Justice As Right Relationship: A Philosophical And Theological Reflection On Affirmative Action, Robert Araujo Mar 2013

Justice As Right Relationship: A Philosophical And Theological Reflection On Affirmative Action, Robert Araujo

Robert J. Araujo S.J.

No abstract provided.


Critical Theories Of Race And Racism In World Perspective, Angela P. Harris Dec 2011

Critical Theories Of Race And Racism In World Perspective, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

This introduction to an edited collection on race and equality to be published by Ashgate Press surveys antidiscrimination law in a number of countries from a critical race theory perspective.


Rotten Social Background And The Temper Of The Times, Angela P. Harris Dec 2011

Rotten Social Background And The Temper Of The Times, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

This essay was submitted to the Alabama Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law review as part of a symposium on Richard Delgado's essay on "Rotten Social Background." Its publication has been delayed by the destruction caused by the Tuscaloosa/Birmingham tornado in the spring of 2011.


Critical Race Theory, Angela P. Harris Dec 2011

Critical Race Theory, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

This entry in the International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences describes critical race theory.


Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness, Nick J. Sciullo Dec 2011

Book Review: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age Of Colorblindness, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

Many in the legal academy have heard of Michelle Alexander’s new book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness. It has been making waves. One need only attend any number of legal conferences in the past year or so, or read through the footnotes in recent law review articles. Furthermore, this book has been reviewed in journals from a number of academic fields, suggesting Alexander has provided a text with profound insights across the university and public spheres. While I will briefly talk about the book as a book, I will spend the majority of this …


Loving Before And After The Law, Loving Before And After The Law, Angela P. Harris Aug 2011

Loving Before And After The Law, Loving Before And After The Law, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Compassion And Critique, Angela Harris Dec 2010

Compassion And Critique, Angela Harris

Angela P Harris

This piece will appear in a symposium organized by Anthony Paul Farley on Marxism and race, in the Columbia Journal of Race and Law.


Teaching The Tensions, Angela P. Harris Dec 2009

Teaching The Tensions, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Regionalism, The Supreme Court, And Effective Governance: Healing Problems That Know No Bounds, Nick J. Sciullo Dec 2005

Regionalism, The Supreme Court, And Effective Governance: Healing Problems That Know No Bounds, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

By actively endorsing remedies that favor a city-suburb divide, the Supreme Court has failed to allow regional development. The Supreme Court's federalism jurisprudence is unresponsive to the myriad issues pervading society. Ultimately, individuals must take action, through a process formulated in this article, to change the way in which governments and the courts respond to the needs of populations.

A battery of cases including Brown v. Board of Education and its progeny, Missouri v. Jenkins and Milliken v. Bradley, reached the Supreme Court during the tumultuous 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. A vast array of environmental laws and housing regulations also …


Subject Unrest, Angela Harris, Frank Valdes, Jerome Culp Dec 2002

Subject Unrest, Angela Harris, Frank Valdes, Jerome Culp

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Un-Natural Things: Constructions Of Race, Gender, And Disability, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit Dec 2001

Un-Natural Things: Constructions Of Race, Gender, And Disability, Robert Hayman, Nancy Levit

Robert L. Hayman

No abstract provided.


Equality Trouble: Sameness And Difference In Twentieth-Century Race Law, Angela Harris Dec 1999

Equality Trouble: Sameness And Difference In Twentieth-Century Race Law, Angela Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Gender Violence, Race, And Criminal Justice, Angela P. Harris Dec 1999

Gender Violence, Race, And Criminal Justice, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Embracing The Tar Baby: Latcrit Theory And The Sticky Mess Of Race, Angela P. Harris, Leslie Espinoza Dec 1996

Embracing The Tar Baby: Latcrit Theory And The Sticky Mess Of Race, Angela P. Harris, Leslie Espinoza

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Foreword: The Jurisprudence Of Reconstruction, Angela Harris Dec 1993

Foreword: The Jurisprudence Of Reconstruction, Angela Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.


Race And Essentialism In Feminist Legal Theory, Angela P. Harris Dec 1989

Race And Essentialism In Feminist Legal Theory, Angela P. Harris

Angela P Harris

No abstract provided.