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African-Americans, Latinos, And The Construction Of Race: Toward An Epistemic Coalition, George A. Martinez
African-Americans, Latinos, And The Construction Of Race: Toward An Epistemic Coalition, George A. Martinez
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Latinos will soon become the largest minority group in the United States. African-Americans may therefore be about to give up political clout to Latinos. This prospect has generated tension between African-Americans and Latinos. Given this background, it is important for Critical Race Theory and Latino Critical Theory to consider the matter of the African-American/Latino relationship. With this in mind, the author discusses two important questions posed by the organizers of this panel: (1) How is the relationship between African-Americans and Latinos affected by the construction of race? and (2) Can Critical Race Theory benefit by a consideration of the race …
Hopwood, Bakke And The Future Of The Diversity Justification, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Hopwood, Bakke And The Future Of The Diversity Justification, Lackland H. Bloom Jr.
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
The decision of the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Hopwood v. Texas sent shock waves through the academic community with its holding that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibited the University of Texas Law School from taking account of race as a factor in its admissions process. In the course of invalidating certain procedures employed by the law school, the Fifth Circuit concluded that Justice Powell's influential opinion in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which recognized the pursuit of diversity in higher education as a compelling state interest, had never constituted …