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Taking A Step Back. Racial Injustice In America, Mark Peffley, Jeffrey Mondak
Taking A Step Back. Racial Injustice In America, Mark Peffley, Jeffrey Mondak
Kentucky Law Journal
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The Smug Assumption Of Reverse Discrimination: Abigail Fisher And Fisher V. University Of Texas At Austin, R. Nicholas Rabold
The Smug Assumption Of Reverse Discrimination: Abigail Fisher And Fisher V. University Of Texas At Austin, R. Nicholas Rabold
Kentucky Law Journal
Many expected Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin (Fisher I), 133 S. Ct. 2411 (2013)—an appeal from the Court ofAppeals for the Fifth Circuit upholding the University of Texas at Austin's race-conscious admissions program—to sound the death knell for race-based affirmative action in higher education. Instead, in remanding the case back to -the Fifth Circuit, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the consideration of race in college admission programs, so long as such use could satisfy strict scrutiny. Nonetheless, Fisher I concerned academics and practitioners with its potentially limiting language, leaving the future of race-based …
The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright
The Reflection And Reification Of Racialized Language In Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright
Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics
This work highlights specific lexical items that have become racialized in specific contextual applications and tests how these words are cognitively processed. This work presents the results of a visual world (Huettig et al 2011) eye-tracking study designed to determine the perception and application of racialized (Coates 2011) adjectives. To objectively select the racialized adjectives used, I developed a corpus comprised of popular media sources, designed specifically to suit my research question. I collected publications from digital media sources such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Fortune by scraping articles featuring specific search terms from their websites. This experiment seeks …