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The Hair Dilemma: Conform To Mainstream Expectations Or Emphasize Racial Identity, Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, Tracy L. Dumas Jan 2007

The Hair Dilemma: Conform To Mainstream Expectations Or Emphasize Racial Identity, Ashleigh Shelby Rosette, Tracy L. Dumas

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

Throughout American history, skin color, eye color, and hair texture have had the power to shape the quality of Black people's lives, and that trend continues today for Black women in the workplace.


Korematsu And Beyond: Japanese Americans And The Origins Of Strict Scrutiny, Greg Robinson, Toni Robinson Apr 2005

Korematsu And Beyond: Japanese Americans And The Origins Of Strict Scrutiny, Greg Robinson, Toni Robinson

Law and Contemporary Problems

The authors examine the role that the Japanese American Citizens League played in the development of the "strict scrutiny" doctrine partly responsible for the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. The plight of Japanese Americans during their WWII internment gave them experience in implementing this doctrine, which they passed on to the NAACP.


Foreword: The Political Geography Of Race Data In The Criminal Justice System, Andrew E. Taslitz Jul 2003

Foreword: The Political Geography Of Race Data In The Criminal Justice System, Andrew E. Taslitz

Law and Contemporary Problems

Several months ago, there was a heated discussion on CrimProf, the listserv for criminal law professors, about the disproportionate representation of minorities in the criminal justice system. Few participants in this online discussion contested the reality that racial and ethnic minorities, especially African Americans, make up a far larger percentage of those arrested and incarcerated than should be expected from their percentage of the country's total population.


Legislating Virtue: How Segregationists Disguised Racial Discrimination As Moral Reform Following Brown V. Board Of Education, Anders Walker Nov 1997

Legislating Virtue: How Segregationists Disguised Racial Discrimination As Moral Reform Following Brown V. Board Of Education, Anders Walker

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Beyond Brown: Evaluating Equality In Higher Education, James A. Washburn Mar 1994

Beyond Brown: Evaluating Equality In Higher Education, James A. Washburn

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Social Science And Segregation Before Brown, Herbert Hovenkamp Jun 1985

Social Science And Segregation Before Brown, Herbert Hovenkamp

Duke Law Journal

A wide variety of scholarship has addressed the law of race relations during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Much of that scholarship has presented the judicial record in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era cases as reactionary and somehow in violation of the basic principles of equality implicit in the American Constitution, particularly in the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments. Professor Hovenkamp calls this view into question by examining the science and social science of that period and the use of scientific information in race relations cases. He concludes that late nineteenth and early twentieth century courts used …


Hyphenated Americans—Economic Aspects, Martin Bronfenbrenner Apr 1982

Hyphenated Americans—Economic Aspects, Martin Bronfenbrenner

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Integration Maintenance: The Unconstitutionality Of Benign Programs That Discourage Black Entry To Prevent White Flight, Rodney A. Smolla Dec 1981

Integration Maintenance: The Unconstitutionality Of Benign Programs That Discourage Black Entry To Prevent White Flight, Rodney A. Smolla

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.