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Africans and Descendants Before 1865 (Searchable Database)

Type: Article Author: Vernellia Randall Category: Africans, Descendants and the Law (Before 1864) Language: *
Become a Patron! This searchable database includes over 18000+ records on legal documents on Africans and their Descendants. The time period covered is before 1865. There are summaries of legal documents dating to 1721. Last Updated: 2021. Documents...
28 March 2019
https://racism.org/articles/citizenship-rights/slavery-to-neoslavery/slavery-2/118-laws-related-to-slavery/212-and-the-law-before-1864/2212-african-before-1865

Black Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Type: Article Author: Vernellia Randall Category: Africans and African Descendents Language: *
This searchable database includes 2750+ law review articles on Black Americans including Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the United States (DAEUS). In January, 2026, 74 articles were added from 2025. Documents were gathered through an electronic...
04 January 2020
https://racism.org/articles/race/defining-racial-groups/62-africans-and-african-descendents/8213-black-american-and-legal

Whiteness, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Type: Article Author: Vernellia Randall Category: Whiteness and White Privilege Language: *
This searchable database includes 1350+ law review articles on Whiteness, Racism and the law. In 2026, 159 articles were added from 2025. Documents were gathered through an electronic database search using the following search terms in the article:...
18 March 2019
https://racism.org/articles/defining-racism/white-privilege/2587-whiteness-and-legal

Asian Americans, Racism and Legal Scholarship (Searchable Database)

Type: Article Author: Vernellia Randall Category: Minority Group Interest and the Law Language: *
Become a Patron! This searchable database includes 550+ law review articles on Asian Americans. In January 2026, 8 articles were added for 2025. Documents were gathered through a Westlaw database search using the following search terms in the title...
17 March 2019
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/39-minority-group-interest-and-the-law/2585-asian-american-and-legal

Reparations Lawsuit (2004) Bob Brown v. John Paul II, et. al.

Type: Article Author: Attorney for the Plaintiff Category: Reparations - LJ Language: *
least 11,200 slave voyages, some 41 percent of the 27,233 slave voyages that are documented in Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. Port of Liverpool. 28) Upon information and belief, more than 1,500,000 Africans, more than 10 percent of the total...
26 January 2019
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/479-reparation/2559-reparations-suit-2004

Deconstructing the Gang Menace: Gang Policing and Police “Expert” Testimony in New York City

Type: Article Author: T.J. Braxton Category: Policing Language: en-GB
so-called gangsters? The answer is highly racialized: An overwhelming ninety-seven percent of the NYPD's Criminal Group Database (CGD) are Black and Latino men. Young men, in particular, have been the primary subjects of police surveillance and criminal...
20 September 2025
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/criminal-justice-and-racism/134-policing/12837-deconstructing-the-gang

The AI Cycle of Health Inequity and Digital Ageism: Mitigating Biases Through the EU Regulatory Framework on Medical Devices

Type: Article Author: Hannah van Kolfschooten Category: Europe Language: en-GB
to pick--which still can be addressed in the trilogue-negotiations. The AI Act obligation to register AI systems in an AI database could be extended to health professionals, public access to clinical evaluation information in the EUDAMED database could...
28 July 2024
https://racism.org/articles/worldwide/georegions/148-europe/12265-the-ai-cycle

Reifying Injustice: Using Culturally Specific Tattoos as a Marker of Gang Membership

Type: Article Author: Beth Caldwell Category: Police, Brutality and Lynchings Language: en-GB
of racial equality. But the NYPD responded by creating Operation Crew Cut, a “war on gangs” fueled by a “'secret’ gang database.” Gang crime was then used as a pretext to “develop[] a policing tactic that is race-based in practice, race-neutral on its...
16 December 2023
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/criminal-justice-and-racism/134-policing/11649-reifying-injustice

Distributive Precedent and the Pro Se Crisis: Appearing Before a Judge without A Lawyer

Type: Article Author: Susannah Camic Tahk Category: Legal System and Racism Language: *
has investigated the question of when, despite the odds, a pro se litigant succeeds. Doing so is the purpose of the database created for this Article. Understanding pro se successes is particularly important given the scope of the current pro se crisis...
31 March 2023
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/375-legal-system-and-racism/11115-distributive-precedent

Race and Voter ID Laws: A Review

Type: Article Author: Joshua Hochberg Category: Voting Rights and Elections Language: *
voter ID, as many states do not require that the ID presented to poll workers be an exact match to the voter registration database. Additionally, many registered voters who lack voter ID would not vote in the first place, even if they had voter ID....
20 April 2023
https://racism.org/articles/citizenship-rights/voting-rights/11151-race-and-voter

Law Enforcement Officers, Students, and the School-to-Prison Pipeline: A Longitudinal Perspective

Type: Article Author: Jason P. Nance and Michael Heise Category: School-to-Prison Pipeline Language: *
from the U.S. Department of Education's School Survey on Crime and Safety (SSOCS), the nation's leading cross-sectional database on public school crime and safety. We are the first scholars to examine data on law enforcement officers and schools at...
01 July 2023
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/criminal-justice-and-racism/137-prison-industrial-complex/195-schooltoprison01/11373-law-enforcement-officers

Fammigration Web: Family Regulation and Immigration

Type: Article Author: S. Lisa Washington Category: Migration and Immigration Language: *
and immigration system convergence. When an order of protection is issued in family court, it is uploaded into a state database. From there, the information is sent to a Federal Bureau of Investigationdatabase which federal immigration officials retain...
22 July 2023
https://racism.org/articles/citizenship-rights/immigration-race-and-racism/11421-fammigration-web

Screening Current and Future Police Officers for White Supremacist Affiliations

Type: Article Author: Jerron R. Wheeler Category: Police, Brutality and Lynchings Language: *
not agree on the fate of qualified immunity for police departments and Republicans were unwilling to agree to a national database to track police misconduct. The conversations have been quiet ever since. II. White Supremacy in Policing White supremacy...
29 July 2023
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/criminal-justice-and-racism/134-policing/11439-agencies-upon

Patriarchal Violence

Type: Article Author: Rona Kaufman Category: Relationship, Domestic or Gendered Violence Language: *
consensus that patriarchal violence is significantly underreported and much of it remains unaccounted for in any official database. There is reason to believe that virtually every woman experiences some form of patriarchal violence in her lifetime and...
01 October 2023
https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/412-eliminating-violence/402-relationship-or-domestic/11496-patriarchal-violence

Critical Remembering: Amplifying, Analyzing, and Understanding the Legacy of Anti-Mexican Violence in the United States

Type: Article Author: René Reyes Category: Hate Crimes and Violence Language: *
Leaves You has been cited a mere six times and has not been the subject of a single review in Westlaw's Secondary Sources database. This is itself a form of injustice. One of the goals of this Article is to remedy that injustice by emphasizing the...
21 October 2023
https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/412-eliminating-violence/413-hate-crimes-and-violence/11527-critical-remembering

Metaresearch, Psychology, and Law: A Case Study on Implicit Bias

Type: Article Author: Jason M. Chin, Alex O. Holcombe, Kathryn Zeiler, Patrick S. Forscher and Ann Guo Category: Bias and the Law Language: en-GB
of recent (2017-2021) mentions of “implicit bias training” in law journals indexed on HeinOnline, a widely used legal database. We chose mentions of training for two reasons. First, scant research finds that interventions aimed at reducing implicit bias...
24 February 2024
https://racism.org/articles/defining-racism/stereotypes-bias-and-racism/210-bias-and-the-law/11839-metaresearch-psychology

Removing the Bias of Criminal Convictions from Family Law

Type: Article Author: Jane K. Stoever Category: Relationship, Domestic or Gendered Violence Language: en-GB
has a criminal record, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation adds more than ten thousand people to its criminal records database every day. While “America has a rap sheet,” the deep racial disparities of the criminal legal system mean that...
24 February 2024
https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/412-eliminating-violence/402-relationship-or-domestic/11840-removing-the

Domestic Terror Across State Lines: A Failed Federal Framework

Type: Article Author: Sophia Houdaigui Category: Terrorism including Domestic Terrorism Language: en-GB
framework, George’s threats are not considered attempted acts of domestic terrorism. Recently, Seth Jones, director of the database project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, declared that a significant threat facing the United...
24 February 2024
https://racism.org/articles/worldwide/war-on-terrorism/11849-domestic-terror

“Colorblind” Policing: Facial Recognition Technology's Interplay in the Fourth Amendment's Race Problem

Type: Article Author: Anne McNamara Category: Policing Language: en-GB
capable of recognizing a person's facial identity by comparing it to other faces that are located in a centralized database. Some critics of the police's use of FRT warn of its disparate impact on people of color who already face higher instances of...
10 March 2024
https://racism.org/articles/law-and-justice/criminal-justice-and-racism/134-policing/11875-colorblind-policing

From Criminalizing China to Criminalizing the Chinese

Type: Article Author: Leo Yu Category: Protest, Protection and Politics Language: en-GB
that this initiative had an undeniable racial profiling trait. Of the 148 defendants across the 77 cases collected in the database, 130--approximately 90 percent--were of Chinese heritage. Few of them received a conviction relating to espionage. A...
18 March 2024
https://racism.org/articles/basic-needs/protestprotection/11878-from-criminalizing

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