Race, Racism & American Law.

Affirmative Action

Beckwith, Francis and Jones, Todd, Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? (Prometheus Books 1997).

Cohen, Carl and Sterba, James P., Affirmative Action and Racial Prefence, A Debate (Oxford Press 2003).

Goring, Darlene C. Private Problem, Public Solution: Affirmative Action in the 21st Century, 33 Akron L. Rev. 209 (2000).

Katznelson, Ira, When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America (Norton 2006).

Kellough, J. Edward, Understanding Affirmative Action: Politics, Discrimination, and the Search for Justice (Georgetown University Press 2006).

Onwuachi-Willig, Angela. Using The Master's "Tool" To Dismantle His House: Why Justice Clarence Thomas Makes The Case For Affirmative Action, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 113 (2005).

Robinson, Jo Ann Ooiman, Affirmative Action: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues (Greenwood Press 2001).

Rubio, Philip F., A History of Affirmation Action 1619-2000, (University Press of Mississippi 2001).

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Brown v. Board of Education

 

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (1977).

McNeil, Genna Rae. Before Brown: Reflections on Historical Context and Vision, 52 Am. U.L. Rev. 1431 (2003).

Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy  (2001).

Tushnet, Mark. The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950 (1987).

Waldo, Martin. Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents (1998).

Ware, Leland B. Setting the Stage for Brown: The Development and Implementation of the NAACP's School Desegregation Campaign, 1930-1950, 52 Mercer L. Rev. 631 (2001).

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Civil Rights Era

Branch, Taylor, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 (Simon & Schuster 1989).

Clar, D., Garrow, David J., Gill, Gerald, and Harding, Vincent, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle (Penguin Publishers 1991).

Clemon, U.W. & Bryan K. Fair, Making Bricks Without Straw: The NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Development of Civil Rights Law in Alabama 1940-1980 , 52 Ala. L. Rev. 1121 (2001).

Collier-Thomas, Bettye & V.P. Franklin, My Soul is a Witness (1999).

Eyes on the Prize, 14 Videotapes on America’s Civil Rights Years (PBS Videos).

Franklin, V.P. Black Self-Determination: A Cultural History of African American Resistance (2d ed. 1992).

Gray, Fred D. Bus Ride to Justice: Changing the System by the System (1995). Jones et al., Jacqueline. Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States (2003).

 

Critical Race Theory

Bell, Derrick, Race, Racism and American Law (Aspen Publishing Company 2004).

Bell, Derrick, Faces At the Bottom of the Well (Harper Collins Publisher 1992).

Bell, Derrick, And We Are Not Saved (Perseus Books Group 1989).

Bender, Leslie and Bravemen, Daan, Power Privilege and Law: A Civil Rights Reader (West Publishing Company 1995).

Crenshaw, Kimberle, Critical Race Theory – The Key Writings That Formed The Movement (The New Press 1995).

Davis, Timothy, Johnson, Kevin R. and Martinez, George A., A Reader on Race Civil Rights and American Law: A Multiracial Approach (Carolina Academic Press 2001).

Delgado, Richard and Stefanic, Jean, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, (Temple University Press 1999).

Perea, Juan F., Delgado, Richard, Harris Angela P. and Wildman,Stephanie M., Race and Races: Cases and Resources for A Diverse America (West Publishing 2000).

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General

Franklin, John Hope & Alfred Moss. From Slavery To Freedom: A History of African Americans (7th ed. 2000). Books

Hacker, Andrew, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, Simon & Schuster (May 2003).

Melvin L. Oliver & Thomas M. Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality (Routledge 1995).

Zinn, Howard. A People's History of the United States 171-211 (20th Anniversary ed. 1999).

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Hate Speech

Virginia v. Black , 538 U.S. 343, 123 S.Ct. 1536 (April 7, 2003).

Wisconsin v. Mitchell , 508 U.S. 476, 113 S.Ct. 2194 (June 11, 1993).

Brownstein, Alan E. Hate Speech and Harassment: The Constitutionality of Campus Codes That Prohibit Racial Insults , 3 William and Mary Bill of Rights Journal 179 (1994).

Delgado, Richard. Are Hate Speech Rules Constitutionaly Hearsay? A Reply to Steven Gey , 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 865 (1995).

Delgado, Richard. Campus Antiracism Rules: Constitutional Narratives in Collision , 85 Northwestern University Law Review 343 (1991).

Delgado, Richard. Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets and Name Calling , 17 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 133 (1982).

Delgado, Richard & Jean Stefanic. Hateful Speech, Loving Communities: Why Our Notion of a Just Balance Changes so Slowly , 82 California Law Review 851 (1994).

Gey, Steven G. The Case Against Postmodern Censorship Theory , 145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 193 (1996).

Matsuda, Mari J. Public Response to Racist Speech: Considering the Victim's Story , 87 Michigan Law Review 2320 (1989).

Rosenfeld, Michel. Hate Speech in Constitutional Jurisprudence: A Comparative Analysis , 24 Cardozo Law Review 1523 (2003).

Strossen, Nadine. Regulating Racist Speech on Campus: A Modest Proposal? , 1990 Duke Law Journal 484 (1990).

Tsesis, Alexander. The Empirical Shortcomings of First Amendment Jurisprudence: A Historical Perspective on the Power of Hate Speech , 40 Santa Clara Law Review 729 (2000).

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Hawaiian Sovereignty

Annotated Bibliography 2006 - PDF

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tJim Crow

Chafe, William H. et al. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About the Segregated South (2001).

Klarman, Michael J., From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press 2006).

Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).

Woodward, C. Vann and McFeely, William S., The Strange Career of Jim Crow (Oxford University Press 2001).

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Housing Discrimination/Mortgage Lending

Books
Briggs, Xaxier de Souza, editor, The Geography of Opportunity: Race and Housing Choice in Metropolitan America (Brookings Inst. Press 2005).

Bullard, Robert D., et al., editors, Residential Apartheid: The American Legacy (Regents of U. Cal. 1994).

Goering, John, and Wienk, Ron, editors, Mortgage Lending, Racial Discrimination, and Federal Policy (Urban Inst. Press 1996).

Listokin, David, and Casey, Stephen, Mortgage Lending and Race: Conceptual and Analytical Perspectives of the Urban Financing Problem, (Ctr. Urban Policy Research 1980).

Lord, Richard, American Nightmare: Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure of the American Dream (Common Courage Press 2005).

Ross, Stephen, and Yinger, John, The Color of Credit: Mortgage Discrimination, Research Methodology, and Fair-Lending Enforcement (MIT Press 2002).

Stuart, Guy, Discriminating Risk: The U.S. Mortgage Lending Industry in the Twentieth Century (Cornell U. Press 2003).

Scholarly Articles
Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, The High Costs of Credit: Disparities in High Priced Refinance Loans to Minority Homeowners in 125 American Cities (ACORN 2005).

Gordon, Adam, The Creation of Homeownership: How New Deal Changes in Banking Regulation Simultaneously Made Homeownership Accessible to Whites and Out of Reach for Blacks, 115 Yale L.J. 186 (2004).

Wilson, Jr., Lloyd T., Effecting Responsibility in the Mortgage Broker-Borrower Relationship: A Role for Agency Principles in Predatory Lending Regulations, 73 U. Cin. L. Rev. 1471 (2005).

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Lynching

Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South (W. Fitzhugh Brundage ed., 1997).

Grant, Donald. The Anti-Lynching Movement: 1883-1932 (1975).

NAACP, Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States: 1889-1918 (Negro Univ. Press 1969) (1919).

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Predatory Lending

Austin, Regina, Of Predatory Lending and the Democratization of Credit: Preserving the Social Safety Net of Informality in Small-Loan Transactions, 53 Am. U. L. Rev. 1217 (2004).

Baily, Nikitra S., Predatory Lending: The New Face of Economic Injustice, 32 Hum. Rts. 14 (Summer 2005).

Harvard, Cassandra Jones, To Lend or Not to Lend: What the CRA Ought to Say About Sub-Prime and Predatory Lending, 7 Fla. Coastal L. Rev. 1 (2005).

Harvard, Cassandra Jones, Democratizing Credit: Examining the Structural Inequities of Subprime Lending, 56 Syracuse L. Rev. 233 (2006).

Henderson, Tja-Nia, New Frontiers in Fair Lending: Confronting Lending Discrimination Against Ex-Offenders, 80 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1237 (2005).

Saunders, Margot and Cohen, Alys, Federal Regulation of Consumer Credit: The Cause or the Cure for Predatory Lending? (Jt. Ctr. For Housing Student Working Paper Series, March 2004).

Strickland, Julia B. And Simonetti, Lisa M., Recent Developments in Litigation Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 121 Banking L.J. 705 (2004).

 

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Race Riots

Kelley, Robin D.G. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002).

Tuttle, Jr., William M. Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (1970).

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Reconstruction

Binder, Guyora. Did the Slaves Author the 13th Amendment? An Essay in Redemptive History , 5 Yale J.L. & Human. 471 (1993).

Bryant, Douglas H. Unorthodox and Paradox: Revisiting the Ratification of the 14th Amendment , 53 Ala. L. Rev. 555 (2002).

Curtis, Michael Kent. John A. Bingham and the Story of American Liberty: The Lost Cause Meets the "Lost Clause" , 36 Akron L. Rev. 617 (2003).

Douglass, Frederick. Reconstruction , in Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses 1619 to the Present (Joanne Grant, ed. 1968)

Drago, Edmund L. Black Politicians & Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (1992).

Foner, Eric. Reconstruction: The Unfinished Revolution (1989).

Higginbotham, F. Michael. Part Three: Reconstruction, Citizenship, and Sovereignty, Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions 163-258, Ed. F. Michael Higginbotham.

Kilpatrick, Judith. (Extra) ORDINARY MEN: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950 , 53 Ark. L. Rev. 299 (2000).

Strauder v. West Virginia, 100 U.S. 303; 25 L. Ed. 664 (Mar. 1, 1880).

Scaturro, Frank J. The Supreme Court's Retreat from Reconstruction, 19-68 (2000).

Smith, Jr., J. Clay. Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer 1844-1944 (1993).

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Reproductive Rights and Race

Books
Marlene Gerber Fried, From Abortion to Reproductive Freedom (South End Press 1990).

Betsy Hartman, Reproductive Rights and Wrongs (Harper and Row Publishers: New York 1987).

Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (NYU Press 2003).

Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body (Random House December 1998).

Loretta Ross and Marlene Gerber Fried, Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice (South End Press 2005).

Tom Shapiro, Population Control Politics: Women Sterilization and Reproductive Choice (Temple University Press 1985).

Jael M. Sillaman, Policing the National Body (South End Press 2002).

Articles
Bridgewater, Pamela D., Ain’t I A Slave: Slavery, Reproductive Abuses and Reparations, 14 UCLA Women’s Law Journal 89 (2005).

Bridgewater, Pamela D., Reproductive Rights and Civil Freedom: The Thirteenth Amendment’s Rold in the Struggle for Reproductive Freedom, 3 J. Gender, Race & Justice 401 (2000).

Dorothy Roberts, Unshackling Black Motherhood, 95 Michigan Law Review 938 (1997).

Dorothy E. Roberts, Crime, Race and Reproduction, 67 Tulane Law Review 1945 (1993).

Dorothy E. Roberts, Punishing Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color Equality and the Right of Privacy, 104 Harvard Law Review 1419 (1991).

Dorothy E. Roberts, The Future of Reproductive Choice for Poor Women and Women of Color, 12 Women’s Rights Law Reporter 59 (1990).

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Slavery

Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (1988).

Grant, Joanne. Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society , in Black Protest: History, Documents, and Analyses 1619 to the Present (Joanne Grant, ed. 1968).

Hurd, John C. The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States (1968).

Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).

Keckley, Elizabeth. Behind the Scenes or Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House (1991).

Lively, Donald E. The Constitution and Race (1992).

Martinot, Steve. The Rule of Racialization : Class, Identity, Governance (2003).

Palmer, Collin. Passageways: An Interpretive History of Black America, Volume I: 1619-1863 (1998).

Redford, Dorothy Spruill. Somerset Homecoming (1989).

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1982).

Wenger, Kaimipono David. Slavery as a Takings Clause Violation , 53 Am. U.L. Rev. 191 (2003).

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Transracial Adoption

Annotated Bibliography 2006 - PDF

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White Privilege/Whiteness Studies

Davis, et. al, Timothy. A Reader on Race, Civil Rights, And American Law, 7-20, 41-53 (YEAR)( The “One Drop”Rule and Its Impact ; Privileges of “Whiteness” ; Whiteness Made Visible: The Emergence of Critical White Studies ).

Franke, Katherine M. What Does a White Woman Look Like? Racing and Erasing in Law , 74 Tex. L. Rev. 1231 (1996).

Frankenberg, Ruth. The Social Construction of Whiteness (1993).

Ignatiev, Noel. How the Irish Became White (1995).

Kolchin, Peter. Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America , 89 J. Am. Hist. No. 1 (2002) available at: http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/89.1/kolchin.html>.

Law, Sylvia A. White Privilege and Affirmative Action , 32 Akron L. Rev. 603 (1999).

Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics (1998).

Lopez, Ian F. Haney. The Social Construction of Race , in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge 191-203 (Richard Delgado, Ed. 1995).

Lopez, Ian F. Haney. White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (1996).

McIntosh, Peggy. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack , Indep. Sch., Winter 1990, at 31.

Minow, Martha. Making All the Difference , in Power, Privilege and the Law:  A Civil Rights Reader 91-106 (Leslie Bender & Dan Braveman, eds. 1995).

Perea et. al, Juan, Race and Races, 77-90, 429-440, 445-450, 455-468(2000).

Roediger, David R. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991).

Roediger, David R. Towards the Abolition of Whiteness: Essays on Race, Politics, and Working Class History (1994).

Rodriguez, Nelson M. Dismantling White Privilege: Pedagogy, Politics, and Whiteness (Nelson M. Rodriguez & Lelia E. Villaverde eds., 2000).

Tehranian, John. Performing Whiteness: Naturalization Litigation and the Construction of Racial Identity in America , 109 Yale L.J. 817 (2000).

Wildman, Stephanie M. Privilege Revealed: How Invisible Preference Undermines America (1996).

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