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Law and Race

2021

University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

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Race And Gender And Policing, Stewart Chang, Frank Rudy Cooper, Addie C. Rolnick Jun 2021

Race And Gender And Policing, Stewart Chang, Frank Rudy Cooper, Addie C. Rolnick

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Elusiveness Of Self-Defense For The Black Transgender Community, Shawn E. Fields Jun 2021

The Elusiveness Of Self-Defense For The Black Transgender Community, Shawn E. Fields

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Enough! Eliminating Police Abuse Of Individuals Of Color With Disabilities, Ann C. Mcginley Jun 2021

Enough! Eliminating Police Abuse Of Individuals Of Color With Disabilities, Ann C. Mcginley

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Web Of Incarceration: School-Based Probation, Jyoti Nanda Jun 2021

Web Of Incarceration: School-Based Probation, Jyoti Nanda

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


American Punishment And Pandemic, Danielle C. Jefferis Jun 2021

American Punishment And Pandemic, Danielle C. Jefferis

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Legal Support For Victim Compensation Funds For Police Violence Victims, Valena E. Beety Jun 2021

Legal Support For Victim Compensation Funds For Police Violence Victims, Valena E. Beety

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Women Of Color In Immigration Enforcement, Kit Johnson Jun 2021

Women Of Color In Immigration Enforcement, Kit Johnson

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Sovereignty Threat: Loreal Tsingine, Policing, And The Intersectionality Of Indigenous Death, Theresa Rocha Beardall Jun 2021

Sovereignty Threat: Loreal Tsingine, Policing, And The Intersectionality Of Indigenous Death, Theresa Rocha Beardall

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


An Empirical Analysis Of The Racial/Ethnic And Sex Differences In Nypd Stop-And-Frisk Practices, Henry F. Fradella, Weston J. Morrow, Michael D. White Jun 2021

An Empirical Analysis Of The Racial/Ethnic And Sex Differences In Nypd Stop-And-Frisk Practices, Henry F. Fradella, Weston J. Morrow, Michael D. White

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Rhetoric Of Racism In The United States Supreme Court, Kathryn M. Stanchi Jan 2021

The Rhetoric Of Racism In The United States Supreme Court, Kathryn M. Stanchi

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This Article is the first study that categorizes and analyzes all the references to the terms "racist," "racism," and "white supremacy" throughout Supreme Court history. It uses the data to tease out how the Court shaped the meaning of these terms and uncovers a series of patterns in the Court's rhetorical usages. The most striking pattern uncovered is that, for the Supreme Court, racism is either something that just happens without any acknowledged racist actor or something that is perpetrated by a narrow subset of usual suspects, such as the Ku Klux Klan or Southern racists. In the Supreme Court's …


Intersectionality, Police Excessive Force, And Class, Frank Rudy Cooper Jan 2021

Intersectionality, Police Excessive Force, And Class, Frank Rudy Cooper

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Recent uprisings over the failure to hold police officers responsible for killing civilians—from Ferguson, Missouri to nationwide George Floyd protests—show the importance of excessive force as a social problem. Some scholars have launched racial critiques of policing as resulting from explicit or implicit racial bias. This Essay is the first to demonstrate that an intersectional analysis of both race and class helps explain both aggressive policing and the Court’s permissive excessive force doctrine.

This Essay identifies several take-aways from intersectionality theory’s basic insight that unique senses of self-identity and unique stereotypes form at places where categories of identity meet. First, …