Update - December, 2019

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

This website makes legal scholarship more accessible to community activists, students, and non-law faculty.   This issue includes  72 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
• White American

• Searchable Databases

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American Indian or Alaskan Native

          Database 

• American Indian, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

           Articles

• Raping Indian Country
• Self-Determination, Subordination, and Semantics: Rhetorical and Real-World Conflicts over the Human Rights of Indigenous Women
• Conceptualizing Indigenous Historical Justice Toward a Mutual Reconciliation with State in Taiwan
• A Crisis of Conscience: Miscarriages of Justice and Indigenous Defendants in Canada
• Re-Imagining Indigenous Peoples' Role in Natural Resource Development Decision Making: Implementing Free, Prior and Informed Consent in Canada through Indigenous Legal Traditions

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Asian American or Pacific Islander 

          Database 

• Asian Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

          Articles

• The Fight to Be American: Military Naturalization and Asian Citizenship

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 Bias and the Law

•  Pulling Back the Curtain: Implicit Bias in the Law School Dean Search Process
• How Subtle Bias Infects the Law
• Reducing Recidivism or Misclassifying Offenders?: How Implementing Risk and Needs Assessment in the Federal Prison System Will Perpetuate Racial Bias
• Understanding the Role of Implicit Bias On Government Lawyers

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

            Databases

• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• African Descendants During Legal Apartheid/ Jim Crow (1865 to 1963) (Searchable Database)

         Articles

• Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Racism: Why Reparations Are in Order for African Americans
• From the Battlefield to the War on Drugs: Lessons from the Lives of Marginalized African American Military Veterans
• Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'cobra) and its Antecedents
• On Obsessions or When Being Black Is Not Enough! (1998)
• Lift Every Voice and Sing (The Black National Anthem)
• Racism in American Courts: Cause for Black Disruption or Despair?
• If the Feds Watching: The FBI's Use of a "Black Identity Extremist" Domestic Terrorism Designation to Target Black Activists & Violate Equal Protection
• Shackled to Economic Appeal: How Prison Labor Facilitates Modern Slavery While Perpetuating Poverty in Black Communities
• Resuscitating The Black Body: Reproductive Justice as Resistance to the State's Property Interest in Black Women's Reproductive Capacity
• Reframing Black Southerners' Experiences in the Courts, 1865-1950
• Does the #ADOS & #MAGA Convergence Signal Imminent Economic Collapse? 

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Criminal Justice

• The Model Penal Code, Mass Incarceration, and the Racialization of American Criminal Law
• The Intersection of Race, Bond, and "Crimmigration" in the United States Immigration Detention System
• Made in the USA: Race, Trade, and Prison Labor
• Reducing Recidivism or Misclassifying Offenders?: How Implementing Risk and Needs Assessment in the Federal Prison System Will Perpetuate Racial Bias
• Shackled to Economic Appeal: How Prison Labor Facilitates Modern Slavery While Perpetuating Poverty in Black Communities  

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Health Status and Health Care

         Databases

• Health Disparities, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

        Articles

• From Health Policy to Stigma and Back Again: The Feedback Loop Perpetuating the Opioids Crisis
• Undocumented, Untreated, Unhealthy: How the Expansion of FQHCs (Federally Qualified Health Centers) Can Fill the Gaps of Basic Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants
• The Worst of Health: Law and Policy at the Intersection of Health & Immigration

          Health Law Syllabi

• American Health Care Law (Syllabus)
• Telemedicine, e-Health and the Law (Syllabus)
• Health Care Malpractice (Syllabus)
• Using the Law to Eliminate Health Disparities (Syllabus)
• Violence as a Public Health Issue (Syllabus)
• Pandemics, Bioterrorism, Public Health and the Law (Syllabus)

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Hispanic or Latinx American

      Database

• Latinx, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

       Articles

• Imprisoned Hispanic/latinx Individuals Need Access to Culturally Competent Mental Health Treatment
• Traveling While Hispanic: Border Patrol Immigration Investigatory Stops at TSA Checkpoints and Hispanic Appearance
• Latino Education in Texas: A History of Systematic Recycling Discrimination

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Immigration

       Databases

• Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

       Articles

• Traveling While Hispanic: Border Patrol Immigration Investigatory Stops at TSA Checkpoints and Hispanic Appearance
• Immigration Policy and Public Health
• Undocumented, Untreated, Unhealthy: How the Expansion of FQHCs (Federally Qualified Health Centers) Can Fill the Gaps of Basic Healthcare for Undocumented Immigrants
• The Worst of Health: Law and Policy at the Intersection of Health & Immigration
• The Intersection of Race, Bond, and "Crimmigration" in the United States Immigration Detention System

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Multiracial American

•  The Multiracial Option: a Step in the White Direction

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School-to-Prison Pipeline

• Proof That School Board Improperly Expelled Student from School
• Prison Abolition and Constitutionalism
• Shackled to Economic Appeal: How Prison Labor Facilitates Modern Slavery While Perpetuating Poverty in Black Communities

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Race and Racism, Generally

•  Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Racism: Why Reparations Are in Order for African Americans
• Seeking Sankofa: Any Hope for a “Post-Racial” Future Resides in Facing Our Racial
• Made in the USA: Race, Trade, and Prison Labor
• Racism in American Courts: Cause for Black Disruption or Despair?
• Racial Antagonism, Sexual Betrayal, Graft, and More: Rethinking and Remedying the Universe of Defense Counsel Failings
• Slouching Toward Universality: A Brief History of Race, Voting, and Political Participation
• Thirteenth Amendment Reflections on Abortion, Surrogacy, and Race Selection
• Who Told You Your Hair Was Nappy?: A Proposal for Replacing an Ineffective Standard for Determining Racially Discriminatory Employment Practices
• The Model Penal Code, Mass Incarceration, and the Racialization of American Criminal Law

        Syllabus

• Race, Racism and the Law (Syllabus)

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Reparations

       Database

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

       Articles

• Documenting the Costs of Slavery, Segregation, and Contemporary Racism: Why Reparations Are in Order for African Americans
• Historic and Modern Social Movements for Reparations: The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'cobra) and its Antecedents

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White American

        Database

• Whiteness, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

        Articles

• Elite American Higher Education Institutions and White Supremacy (Amicus Curiae Brief)
• How White Right Can Fight Wrong: The Plight of White Male Privilege 
• A White Heteropatriarchal Property Right in Philandering, Sexual Exploitation, and Rape (The "WHP") or Johnny and the Whp

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 Databases

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• African Descendants During Legal Apartheid/ Jim Crow (1865 to 1963) (Searchable Database)
• Whiteness, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Islam, Islamophobia and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Asian Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• American Indian, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Health Disparities, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• #BlackLivesMatter and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Birthright Citizenship, Race and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Latinx, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)
• Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)
• Reparations for Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

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