Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Race. Show all posts
May 26, 2015

Creating Racial Identity In Early New Orleans

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Kenneth R. Aslakson, Associate Professor of History at Union College, has published Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction o...
April 30, 2015

Looking At Asian American Culture and Racial Classification

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Jennifer Ann Ho (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) has published Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture (Rutgers University P...
May 1, 2013

The Meaning of "Uncle Tomism"

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Brando Simeo Starkey has published Uncle Tom & Social Norms: Improving Legal Interests and Affecting Public Policy: Introduction . Here...
September 2, 2011

Was Thomas Jefferson the Father of Sally Hemings' Children?

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It's back. The "it" is the debate over Thomas Jefferson's relationship with Sally Hemings and whether he fathered her chil...
August 25, 2011

France, the United States, and Coming to Terms With Slavery

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Ariela J. Gross, University of Southern California Law School, has published All Born to Freedom? Comparing the Law and Politics of Race and...
March 21, 2011

Language and Evidence of Race Discrimination

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Dawn D. Bennett-Alexander, University of Georgia, has published The Use of the Term 'Boy' as Evidence of Race Discrimination: Appare...
March 16, 2011

The Face of Murder

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The flap over showrunner Brian True-May's remarks concerning the whiteness of the hit show Midsomer Murders shows no sign of abating;...
February 1, 2011

Hollywood and Ethnicity on Film

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Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law School, has published Through a Screen Darkly: Hollywood as a Measure of Discrimination Against Arabs and Mu...
July 15, 2010

Racial Representation in Film

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Cynthia D. Bond, John Marshall Law School, has published Laws of Race/Laws of Representation: The Construction of Race and Law in Contempora...
June 23, 2010

Hollywood and the Rhetoric of Race

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Cynthia D. Bond, The John Marshall Law School, has published Laws of Race/Laws of Representation: The Construction of Race and Law in Contem...
May 19, 2010

Race and Legal History at the University of Texas

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Thomas D. Russell, University of Denver College of Law, has published ‘Keep the Negroes Out of Most Classes Where There Are a Large Number o...
April 13, 2010

Adrienne Davis on Star Trek and Gran Torino

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Adrienne D. Davis has published Film Review: Masculinity & Interracial Intimacy in 'Star Trek' and 'Gran Torino' , as Wa...
October 15, 2009

Interracial Relationships

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Jason Gillmer, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, has published "Telling Stories of Love, Sex, and Race." Here is the abstra...
May 18, 2009

Race, Property, and Gambling in Mark Twain

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While I was looking for something else on SSRN, I came across this interesting paper by Naomi Reed. Naomi Reed, Columbia University, The Wag...
May 5, 2008

Mildred Jeter Loving Dies

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Mildred Loving, one of the parties in the landmark case Loving v. Virginia, has passed away. NPR has this audio story . Timothy Hutton and L...
June 21, 2007

Bob Mondello's Piece on Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and the Supreme Court Case: Loving v. Virginia

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National Public Radio's Bob Mondello did a feature piece June 12th devoted to the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner as well as seve...
April 13, 2007

Race and the Movies

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N. Jeremi Duru, Temple University School of Law, has published "Friday Night "Lite": How Deracialization in the Motion Pictur...
February 1, 2007

Capers on Race and Justitia, the Symbol of Justice

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Professor I. Bennett Capers has posted on SSRN an article, On Jusitita, Race, Gender, and Blindness , 12 Michigan J. of Race & Law 203 (...

Capers on Post-Colonial and Black Literary Theory and Legal Texts

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Professor I. Bennett Capers (Hofstra Law School) has posted on SSRN the article, Reading Back, Reading Black , 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 101 (2007...