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The Declining Significance Of Presidential Races?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Osamudia R. James
The Declining Significance Of Presidential Races?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Osamudia R. James
Angela Onwuachi-Willig
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The Black Women Anti-Defamation Coalition: A Proposal For The Remediation Of The Negative, Controlling Images Of Black Women, Shemar Antonio Taylor
The Black Women Anti-Defamation Coalition: A Proposal For The Remediation Of The Negative, Controlling Images Of Black Women, Shemar Antonio Taylor
Senior Projects Spring 2017
This research sets out to highlight the life-altering degree to which negative, domineering depictions of Black women has had and continues to have on their livelihood and also to argue that due to their systemic inability to control and craft their own reputation, this should be categorized as a human rights violation and enforced on the grounds of defamation law. Although I am not a Black woman myself, as a Black man who was raised by three Black women, I have seen first hand the importance of proving this point. Many Black women scholars, many of whom I will be …
The Geography Of Racial Stereotyping: Evidence And Implications For Vra Preclearance After Shelby County, Christopher Elmendorf, Douglas Spencer
The Geography Of Racial Stereotyping: Evidence And Implications For Vra Preclearance After Shelby County, Christopher Elmendorf, Douglas Spencer
Douglas M. Spencer
The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) effectively enjoined the preclearance regime of the Voting Rights Act. The Court deemed the coverage formula, which determines the jurisdictions subject to preclearance, insufficiently grounded in current conditions. This paper proposes a new, legally defensible approach to coverage based on between-state differences in the proportion of voting age citizens who subscribe to negative stereotypes about racial minorities and vote accordingly. The new coverage formula could also account for racially polarized voting and minority population size, but, for constitutional reasons, subjective discrimination by voters is the essential criterion. We demonstrate that the …
The Declining Significance Of Presidential Races?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Osamudia R. James
The Declining Significance Of Presidential Races?, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Osamudia R. James
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The Virulence Of BlackthinkTm And How Its Threat Of Ostracism Shackles Those Deemed Not Black Enough, Kimberly Jade Norwood
The Virulence Of BlackthinkTm And How Its Threat Of Ostracism Shackles Those Deemed Not Black Enough, Kimberly Jade Norwood
Kentucky Law Journal
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