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Title Vii: What's Hair (And Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got To Do With It?, D. Wendy Greene
Title Vii: What's Hair (And Other Race-Based Characteristics) Got To Do With It?, D. Wendy Greene
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Introduction To The Special Issue: A Retrospective On Race In America, Angela S. Boettcher, Quintin H. Morse, Nora Rainey Olson Cooke, Erin Mclaughlin, Caroline Young, Charissa Wood, Sasha Strong, Natasha Viteri, Taylor Schad
Introduction To The Special Issue: A Retrospective On Race In America, Angela S. Boettcher, Quintin H. Morse, Nora Rainey Olson Cooke, Erin Mclaughlin, Caroline Young, Charissa Wood, Sasha Strong, Natasha Viteri, Taylor Schad
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Racializing Environmental Justice, Eric K. Yamamoto, Jen-L W. Lyman, Susan K. Serrano
Racializing Environmental Justice, Eric K. Yamamoto, Jen-L W. Lyman, Susan K. Serrano
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Affirmative Action And The Criminal Law, Paul Butler
Affirmative Action And The Criminal Law, Paul Butler
University of Colorado Law Review
No abstract provided.
Not Your Mule? Disrupting The Political Powerlessness Of Black Women Voters, Chinyere Ezie
Not Your Mule? Disrupting The Political Powerlessness Of Black Women Voters, Chinyere Ezie
University of Colorado Law Review
On the one hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, this Article reflects on the legacy of Black women voters. The Article hypothesizes that even though suffrage was hard fought, it has not been a vehicle for Black women to meaningfully advance their political concerns. Instead, an inverse relationship exists between Black women's political participation and their relative level of socioeconomic and political well-being. Taking recent national elections as a case study, the Article identifies two sources of Black women's political powerlessness: "caretaker voting" and the "trapped constituency problem." The Article concludes that Black women's strong voter turnout coupled with their …
The Political (Mis)Representation Of Immigrants In Voting, Ming H. Chen, Hunter Knapp
The Political (Mis)Representation Of Immigrants In Voting, Ming H. Chen, Hunter Knapp
University of Colorado Law Review
Who is a member of the political community? What barriers to inclusion do immigrants face as outsiders to this political community? This Essay describes several barriers facing immigrants and naturalized citizens that impede their political belonging. It critiques these barriers on the basis of immigrants and foreign-born voters having rights of semi-citizenship. By placing naturalization backlogs, voting restrictions, and reapportionment battles in the historical context of voter suppression, it provides a descriptive and normative account of the political misrepresentation of immigrants.
The Constitution In Context: The Continuing Significance Of Racism, T. Alexander Aleinikoff
The Constitution In Context: The Continuing Significance Of Racism, T. Alexander Aleinikoff
University of Colorado Law Review
Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, and sex. Many Title VII cases have arisen when an applicant's or employee's non-conformity with an employer's policy barring certain hairstyles or clothing has resulted in an adverse employment action, such as a denial or termination of employment. Generally, courts have not deemed an adverse employment action resulting from an applicant's or employee's non-conformity with an employment policy banning the display of mutable characteristics commonly associated with a particular racial or ethnic group a violation of Title VII's proscription …