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Civil Rights and Discrimination

2014

Selected Works

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Throwing Black Babies Out With The Bathwater: A Child-Centered Challenge To Same-Sex Adoption Bans, Tanya Washington Oct 2014

Throwing Black Babies Out With The Bathwater: A Child-Centered Challenge To Same-Sex Adoption Bans, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

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All Things Being Equal: The Promise Of Affirmative Efforts To Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality In The United States And Brazil, Tanya Washington Oct 2014

All Things Being Equal: The Promise Of Affirmative Efforts To Eradicate Color-Coded Inequality In The United States And Brazil, Tanya Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

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The Diversity Dichotomy: The Supreme Courts Reticence To Give Race A Capital R, Tanya M. Washington Oct 2014

The Diversity Dichotomy: The Supreme Courts Reticence To Give Race A Capital R, Tanya M. Washington

Tanya Monique Washington

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Gay Rights, Racial Prejudice, And True Equality, Eric J. Segall, Erwin Chemerinsky Oct 2014

Gay Rights, Racial Prejudice, And True Equality, Eric J. Segall, Erwin Chemerinsky

Eric J. Segall

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In The U.S. Supreme Court: How To Define Who Qualifies As An 'Employer' Within The Meaning Of Title Vii, Steven Kaminshine Oct 2014

In The U.S. Supreme Court: How To Define Who Qualifies As An 'Employer' Within The Meaning Of Title Vii, Steven Kaminshine

Steven J. Kaminshine

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Spectrum Initiative: An Insiders View, Trina Holloway Oct 2014

Spectrum Initiative: An Insiders View, Trina Holloway

Trina Holloway

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In The U.S. Supreme Court: Does Title Vii Protect Former Employees From Acts Of Retaliation By Former Employers?, Steven Kaminshine Oct 2014

In The U.S. Supreme Court: Does Title Vii Protect Former Employees From Acts Of Retaliation By Former Employers?, Steven Kaminshine

Steven J. Kaminshine

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Legal History And The Politics Of Inclusion, Felice Batlan Dec 2013

Legal History And The Politics Of Inclusion, Felice Batlan

Felice J Batlan

This review considers four very different books that explore how gender and race have structured law and the legal profession. Each interrogates the legitimacy of law by demonstrating how it has produced multiple injustices, thereby challenging the myth that law is about equity or fairness, and that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights produced a set of inalienable rights and liberties that applied to all. 

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Conceptions Of Agency In Social Movement Scholarship: Mack On African American Civil Rights Lawyers [Comments], Susan D. Carle Dec 2013

Conceptions Of Agency In Social Movement Scholarship: Mack On African American Civil Rights Lawyers [Comments], Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

This essay examines the theory of individual agency that propels the central thesis in Kenneth Mack's Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer (2012)-namely, that an important yet understudied means by which African American civil rights lawyers changed conceptions of race through their work was through their very performance of the professional role of lawyer. Mack shows that this performance was inevitably fraught with tension and contradiction because African American lawyers were called upon to act both as exemplary representatives of their race and as performers of a professional role that traditionally had been reserved for whites …

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