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Human Agency, Negated Subjectivity, And White Structural Oppression: An Analysis Of Critical Race Practive/Praxis, Reginald Leamon Robinson Jun 2004

Human Agency, Negated Subjectivity, And White Structural Oppression: An Analysis Of Critical Race Practive/Praxis, Reginald Leamon Robinson

American University Law Review

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Re-Mapping Equal Protection Jurisprudence: A Legal Geography Of Race And Affirmative Action, Reginald Oh Jun 2004

Re-Mapping Equal Protection Jurisprudence: A Legal Geography Of Race And Affirmative Action, Reginald Oh

American University Law Review

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The Networking Economic Effects Of Whiteness, Brant T. Lee Jun 2004

The Networking Economic Effects Of Whiteness, Brant T. Lee

American University Law Review

Network economic analysis provides an important and intuitive explanation of racial inequality. In short, Whiteness is Microsoft's Windows operating system, or the QWERTY keyboard, or the standard (non-metric) measurement system, and difficult to dislodge for many of the same reasons. Network effects explain how the establishment of a dominant market standard 1) can be contingent on historical context, 2) does not necessarily derive from superior intrinsic merit, and 3) exhibits strong self-reinforcing characteristics that can maintain the dominance of the standard in perpetuity, even in the absence of any explicit or conscious determination to maintain it. All of these factors …


Critical Race Histories: In And Out, Darren Lenard Hutchinson Jan 2004

Critical Race Histories: In And Out, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

American University Law Review

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The Central Park Five, The Scottsboro Boys, And The Myth Of The Bestial Black Man, N. Jeremi Duru Jan 2004

The Central Park Five, The Scottsboro Boys, And The Myth Of The Bestial Black Man, N. Jeremi Duru

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Resisting Retreat: The Struggle For Equity In Educational Opportunity In The Post-Brown Era, Lia Epperson Jan 2004

Resisting Retreat: The Struggle For Equity In Educational Opportunity In The Post-Brown Era, Lia Epperson

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The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 - Progeny Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Robert Dinerstein Jan 2004

The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990 - Progeny Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Robert Dinerstein

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Comparing Remedies For School Desegregation And Employment Discrimination, Candace Kovacic-Fleischer Jan 2004

Comparing Remedies For School Desegregation And Employment Discrimination, Candace Kovacic-Fleischer

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INTRODUCTION: Ten years after the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, now a symbol of the beginning of the end of racial discrimination, Congress passed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII opened the workplace to all races and women in ways that had not previously existed. While discrimination in the workplace has not disappeared in the forty years since Title VII's enactment, one sees minorities and women in a greater variety of jobs, and at higher levels, than one would have seen a generation ago. The promise of Brown, however, has not been …