Update - May, 2020

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This issue includes 74 articles  posted in the following categories:

• Bias and the Law
• Criminal Justice
• Health Status and Health Care
• Immigration
• School-to-Prison Pipeline
•      Race and Racism, Generally
• Reparations

• American Indian or Alaskan Native
• Asian American or Pacific Islander
• Black or African American or DAEUS
• Hispanic or Latinx American
• White American

• Searchable Databases  

 
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American Indian or Alaskan Native

Databases

• Indian Boarding Schools, Indian Child Welfare Act and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Sovereignty (Indian and Native Hawaiian) and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• American Indian, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

•  Native Peoples Amid the COVID-19 Threat
   

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Asian American or Pacific Islander including Native Hawaiians

Databases

• Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Chinese Exclusion Laws, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Asian Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Native Hawaiian, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Sovereignty (Indian and Native Hawaiian) and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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 Bias and the Law

Databases

•  Bias and Racism in Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  

Articles

•  Understanding Bias, Discrimination and the Law (Presentation)

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Black or African American including DAEUS (Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States)

Databases

• Black Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• DAEUS During Legal Apartheid/ Jim Crow (1865 to 1963) (Searchable Database)
• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• Reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

 Articles

•  The Unfinished Mission of Title VII: Black Parity in the American Workforce
• The Violent State: Black Women's Invisible Struggle Against Police Violence
• Black Los Angeles Demands in Light of COVID-19 and Rates of Black Death
• Racial Differences in the National Politics Survey on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Webinar: Understanding Coronavirus Pandemic's Excess Black Deaths
• Dying While Black (2006)
• SIGN THE PETITION: Demand insurance companies prioritize the health of Black people and extend health insurance coverage.
• Getting a Lawyer While Black: A Field Experiment
• Collective Response to the COVID-19 Impact on African Americans and other Priority Populations
• On Beauty and Policing in South Africa

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Coronavirus (Covid-19)

Databases

• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Race and Racism: Legal Documents (Searchable Database)
• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Race and Racism: News Articles (Searchable Database)

Weblinks

• This page list selected links on racism and the coronavirus (Covid-19). It is updated almost daily. Approximately 215 weblinks as of May  1 , 2020.

Articles

•   COVID-19 & Race: Principles for a Common-Sense,Street-Smart Recovery: Complete Set
• COVID-19 & Race: Put People First!
• COVID-19 & Race: Build an Equitable Economy
• COVID-19 & Race: Center Racial Equity
• COVID-19 & Race: Invest in Community Infrastucture
• COVID-19 & Race: Protect and Expand Community Voice and Power
• Federal Agencies to Vigilantly Enforce Civil Rights Laws During and in the Wake of the COVID-19 Crisis
•  Native Peoples Amid the COVID-19 Threat
• Black Los Angeles Demands in Light of COVID-19 and Rates of Black Death
• Collective Response to the COVID-19 Impact on African Americans and other Priority Populations
• Congressional Representatives' Letter to DHHS Re Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Response
• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Race and Racism: Legal Documents (Searchable Database)
• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Race and Racism: News Articles (Searchable Database)
• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Racial Minorities and the Guidelines for Opening America Up Again
• COVID-19 and Constitutional Rights
• COVID-19’s Impact on Communities of Color: A Digital Town Hall with Women of Color Congressional Leaders
• Lawyers Committee - Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) on Coronavirus (COVID-19) and Race
• NEOBHC Demands Covid-19 Race/ethnicity Statistics from Cuyahoga County
• Racial Differences in the National Politics Survey on Coronavirus (COVID-19)
• Racial Disparities & COVID-19
• Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• United States Racism and the COVID19 Pandemic
• Coronavirus Equity Considerations (NAACP)
• Coronavirus: Communities of Color at Higher Health and Economic Risk
• Lawyers Committee - Letter to DHHS on Racial Data and Coronavirus
• The Coronavirus Pandemic And the Demand for Reparations

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Criminal Justice

Databases

• Policing, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• School-to-Prison Pipeline and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

•  Criminalization of Poverty
• Understanding Bias, Discrimination and the Law (Presentation)
• The Invisibility of Race at the ICC: Lessons from the Us Criminal Justice System
• Parental Incarceration During Childhood and Later Delinquent Outcomes among Puerto Rican Adolescents and Young Adults in Two Contexts
• The Prisoner Trade
• A Case Against Medicaid Work Requirements for Prisoners Re-entering Society

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Health Status and Health Care

Databases

• Racial Health Disparities and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database) 

Articles

• Legislating a Negative Right to Health: Health Impact Assessments
• SIGN THE PETITION: Demand insurance companies prioritize the health of Black people and extend health insurance coverage.
• Coronavirus: Communities of Color at Higher Health and Economic Risk
• A Case Against Medicaid Work Requirements for Prisoners Re-entering Society
• Why the Numbers of the Family Medical Leave Act Don't Add up for New Parents of Color and Low-wage Workers
  
   

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Hispanic or Latinx American

Databases

• Mexican Americans, Racism and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Searchable Database)
• Latina/Latino, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

•  Los Confundidos: De-conflating Latinos/as' Race and Ethnicity

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Immigration

Databases

• Immigration, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

• Immigration Law, Race, and Identity
  
• Considering Race in American Immigration Jurisprudence

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School-to-Prison Pipeline

Databases

•  School-to-Prison Pipeline and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

•  Principal Interrogator: A Call for Youth-informed Analysis of Schoolhouse Interrogations

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Race and Racism, Generally

•  Racially Asymmetric Market Failures and Imperfections (Video)
• The Invisibility of Race at the ICC: Lessons from the Us Criminal Justice System
• Following the Blueprint: How a New Generation of Segregationists Is Advancing Racial Gerrymandering
• ME TOO? Race, Gender, and Ending Workplace Sexual Harassment
• Financial Freedom Suits: Bankruptcy, Race, and Citizenship in Antebellum America

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Reparations

Databases

• Reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

•  The Coronavirus Pandemic And the Demand for Reparations
• An Uphill Battle for Reparationists: A Quantitative Analysis of the Effectiveness of Slavery Reparations Rhetoric

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White Americans and Whiteness

Databases

• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Articles

•  Affirming Affirmative Action by Affirming White Privilege: SFFA V. Harvard

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 Databases 

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• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• American Indian, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Asian Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Bias and Racism in Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Black Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Chinese Exclusion Laws, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Race and Racism: Legal Documents (Searchable Database)
  
• Coronavirus (Covid-19), Race and Racism: News Articles (Searchable Database)
  
• DAEUS During Legal Apartheid/ Jim Crow (1865 to 1963) (Searchable Database)
  
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
  
• Immigration, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Indian Boarding Schools, Indian Child Welfare Act and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Internment of Japanese Americans in Concentration Camps and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Islamphobia, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Latina/Latino, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Mexican Americans, Racism and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Searchable Database)
  
• Muslim Americans/Islam and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Native Hawaiian, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Policing, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Racial Health Disparities and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• School-to-Prison Pipeline and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Sovereignty (Indian and Native Hawaiian) and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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