Update - October, 2019

Vernellia Randall Founder and Editor Professor Emerita of Law The University of Dayton School of Law

This website makes legal scholarship more accessible to community activists, students, and non-law faculty.   This issue includes 44 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
• Multiracial American (No New Articles)
• White American

• Searchable Databases

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American Indian or Alaskan Native

• The Need for Federal Legislation to Address Native Voter Suppression
• Native American Religious Freedom as a Collective Right
• The Story of New York's Federal-State-Tribal Courts and Indian Nations Justice Forum
• The Canadian Indian Free Passage Right and Explicit Race Restriction in United States Immigration Law
• Native People in America and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database) 

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Asian American or Pacific Islander

• The Political Behavior of Asian Indian American Women: Gendered and Generational Perspectives on Race, Immigration and Socio-economic Status
• The Constructed Identities of Asian and African Americans: A Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System
• Asian American and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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 Bias and the Law

• The Biased Algorithm: Evidence of Disparate Impact on Hispanics
• The Legacy of Slavery, Cognitive Shortcuts, and Biased News: The Mass Media's Vilification of Black Males and the Resulting "Reasonableness" of Excessive Force by Law Enforcement
• Internalized Oppression: The Impact of Gender and Racial Bias in Employment on the Health Status of Women of Color
• It's Broke So Let's Fix It: Using a Quasi-inquisitorial Approach to Limit the Impact of Bias in the American Criminal Justice System

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

• The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities
• The Constructed Identities of Asian and African Americans: A Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System
• When They Need Us Most: The Unaddressed Crisis of Mentally Ill African American Children in the Juvenile Justice System
• White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black
• Why the Black Man Is Really Gray
• The Legacy of Slavery, Cognitive Shortcuts, and Biased News: The Mass Media's Vilification of Black Males and the Resulting "Reasonableness" of Excessive Force by Law Enforcement
• From Fear to Rage: Black Rage as a Natural Progression from and Functional Equivalent of Battered Woman Syndrome
• Immigration and Blackness
• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants 1865 to 1963 (Searchable Database)

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Criminal Justice

• White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black
• Arrested at the Schoolhouse Gate: Criminal School Disturbance Laws and Children's Rights in Schools
• z-Prosecutorial Misconduct: Shouldn't the Punishment Fit the Crime?
• The Constructed Identities of Asian and African Americans: A Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System
• Benign Neglect of Racism in the Criminal Justice System (Book Review)
• Anatomy of a Modern-day Lynching: The Relationship Between Hate Crimes Against Latina/os and the Debate over Immigration Reform
• It's Broke So Let's Fix It: Using a Quasi-inquisitorial Approach to Limit the Impact of Bias in the American Criminal Justice System
• White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black
• 2018: A Year of Racialized Police Communication
• “Hands Up, Don't Shoot”: The Use of Deadly Force by Police Against Racial Minorities in the United States

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Health Status and Health Care

• Internalized Oppression: The Impact of Gender and Racial Bias in Employment on the Health Status of Women of Color 
• Health Disparities and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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Hispanic or Latinx American

• “Hispanics in the Heartland: The Fremont, Nebraska Immigration Ordinance and the Future of Latino Civil Rights”
• The Biased Algorithm: Evidence of Disparate Impact on Hispanics
• Relational Legal Consciousness of U.S. Citizenship: Privilege, Responsibility, Guilt, and Love in Latino Mixed-Status Families
• Arizona, Immigration, and Latinos: The Epistemology of Whiteness
• “Hispanics in the Heartland: The Fremont, Nebraska Immigration Ordinance and the Future of Latino Civil Rights”
• Anatomy of a Modern-day Lynching: The Relationship Between Hate Crimes Against Latina/os and the Debate over Immigration Reform
• Hispanic/Latinx and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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Immigration

• Immigration and Blackness
• Anatomy of a Modern-day Lynching: The Relationship Between Hate Crimes Against Latina/os and the Debate over Immigration Reform
• “Hispanics in the Heartland: The Fremont, Nebraska Immigration Ordinance and the Future of Latino Civil Rights”
• Arizona, Immigration, and Latinos: The Epistemology of Whiteness
• The Canadian Indian Free Passage Right and Explicit Race Restriction in United States Immigration Law
• Races at the Gate: A Century of Racial Distinctions in American Immigration Policy (1865-1965)
• The Political Behavior of Asian Indian American Women: Gendered and Generational Perspectives on Race, Immigration and Socio-economic Status
• Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
  
  

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School-to-Prison Pipeline

• Arrested at the Schoolhouse Gate: Criminal School Disturbance Laws and Children's Rights in Schools

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Race and Racism, Generally

• The Sixth Amendment Façade: The Racial Evolution of the Right to Counsel
• Post-Racial Racism: Racial Stratification and Mass Incarceration in the Age of Obama
• Zoning, Race, and Marijuana: the Unintended Consequences of Proposition 64
• Internalized Oppression: The Impact of Gender and Racial Bias in Employment on the Health Status of Women of Color
• Marijuana Legalization, Racial Disparity, and the Hope for Reform
• Apparitions in the Theory: How the Sciences Cause Race and Gender to Matter in the Twenty-first Century
• Racism in the Insanity Defense
• The Teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Contract Theory: An Intriguing Comparison
• Law, Literature, and Contract: An Essay in Realism

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Reparations

• Reparations and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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White American

• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• White Caller Crime: Racialized Police Communication and Existing While Black
• Arizona, Immigration, and Latinos: The Epistemology of Whiteness
• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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 Databases

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• Enslaved Africans and Descendants 1865 to 1963 (Searchable Database)
• Whiteness and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Muslim Americans/Islam and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Asian American and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Native People in America and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Health Disparities and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Hispanic/Latinx and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Enslaved Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• Reparations and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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