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How the Supreme Court's decision to treat unreasonable policing as
reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance
between life and death for Black people The summer of 2020 will be
remembered as an unprecedented, watershed moment in the struggle
for racial equality. Published on the second anniversary of the
global protests over the police killings of George Floyd and
Breonna Taylor, Unreasonable is a groundbreaking investigation of
the role that the law-and the U.S. Constitution-play in the
epidemic of police violence against Black people. In this crucially
timely book, celebrated legal scholar Devon W. Carbado explains how
the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police
conduct-more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel,
equal protection and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines
when and how the police can make arrests, and it determines the
precarious line between stopping Black people and killing Black
people. A leading light in the critical race studies movement,
Carbado looks at how that text, in the last four decades, has been
interpreted by the Supreme Court to protect police officers, not
African Americans; how it sanctions search and seizure as well as
profiling; and how it has become, ultimately, an amendment of life
and death. Accessible, radical, and essential reading, Unreasonable
sheds light on a rarely understood dimension of today's most
pressing issue.
Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award for Fiction Anthology
Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James
Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker, and writers whom readers may be
surprised to learn were "in the life," "Black Like Us" is the most
comprehensive collection of fiction by African American lesbian,
gay, and bisexual writers ever published. From the Harlem
Renaissance to the Great Migration of the Depression era, from the
postwar civil rights, feminist, and gay liberation movements, to
the unabashedly complex sexual explorations of the present day,
"Black Like Us" accomplishes a sweeping survey of 20th century
literature.
By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical
dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates
that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist.
Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty,
employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice,
housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass
incarceration. While some rewritten cases - Plessy v. Ferguson
(which constitutionalized Jim Crow) and Korematsu v. United States
(which constitutionalized internment) - originally focused on race,
many of the rewritten opinions - Lawrence v. Texas (which
constitutionalized sodomy laws) and Roe v. Wade (which
constitutionalized a woman's right to choose) - are used to
incorporate racial justice principles in novel and important ways.
This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why
critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to
uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational
to US democracy.
By re-writing US Supreme Court opinions that implicate critical
dimensions of racial justice, Critical Race Judgments demonstrates
that it's possible to be judge and a critical race theorist.
Specific issues covered in these cases include the death penalty,
employment, voting, policing, education, the environment, justice,
housing, immigration, sexual orientation, segregation, and mass
incarceration. While some rewritten cases - Plessy v. Ferguson
(which constitutionalized Jim Crow) and Korematsu v. United States
(which constitutionalized internment) - originally focused on race,
many of the rewritten opinions - Lawrence v. Texas (which
constitutionalized sodomy laws) and Roe v. Wade (which
constitutionalized a woman's right to choose) - are used to
incorporate racial justice principles in novel and important ways.
This work is essential for everyone who needs to understand why
critical race theory must be deployed in constitutional law to
uphold and advance racial justice principles that are foundational
to US democracy.
What does it mean to "act black" or "act white"? Is race merely a
matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a
person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to
spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it? What does it
mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment? In
Acting White?, leading scholars of race and the law Devon Carbado
and Mitu Gulati argue that, in spite of decades of racial progress
and the pervasiveness of multicultural rhetoric, racial judgments
are often based not just on skin color, but on how a person
conforms to behavior stereotypically associated with a certain
race. Specifically, racial minorities are judged on how they
"perform" their race. This performance pervades every aspect of
their daily life, whether it's the clothes they wear, the way they
style their hair, the institutions with which they affiliate, their
racial politics, the people they befriend, date or marry, where
they live, how they speak, and their outward mannerisms and
demeanor. Employing these cues, decision-makers decide not simply
whether a person is black but the degree to which she or he is so.
Relying on numerous examples from the workplace, higher education,
and police interactions, the authors demonstrate that, for African
Americans, the costs of "acting black" are high, and so are the
pressures to "act white." But, as the authors point out, "acting
white" has costs as well. Provocative yet never doctrinaire, Acting
White? will boldly challenge your assumptions and make you think
about racial prejudice from a fresh vantage point.
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