Racial Justice Resources: Law Review Articles and Other Resources

Rebecca L. Sandefur, Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class and Gender Inequality, 34 Ann. Rev. Soc. 339 (2008).

Ta-Nahesi Coates, The Case for Reparations, The Atlantic (June 2014).

Frances Lee Ansley, Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education, 79 Cal. L. Rev. 6 (1991).

Russell K. Robinson, Perceptual Segregation, 108 Colum. L. Rev. 1093 (2008).

Angela Hanks, Danyelle Solomon, and Chrsitian E. Weller, Systematic Inequality: How America’s Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap (Feb. 21, 2018).

Laura Smith, Susan Kashubeck-West, Gregory Payton, & Eve Adams, White Professors Teaching About Racism: Challenges and Rewards, The Counseling Psychologist, 45(5), 651 (2017).

Sue Bryant, The Five Habits: Building Cross-Cultural Competence in Lawyers, 8 Clinical L. Rev. 33 (2001).

Sara Sternberg Greene, Race, Class, and Access to Civil Justice, 101 Iowa L. Rev. 1234 (2016).

Pat K. Chew & Robert E. Kelley, The Realism of Race in Judicial Decision Making: An Empirical Analysis of Plaintiffs' Race and Judges' Race, 28 Harv. J. Racial & Ethnic Just. 91 (2012).

Additional IAT-related teaching tools.

Sandra Simpson, “As easy as '1, 2, buckle my shoe,' 10 Steps for Addressing Race Intentionally and Facilitating Unplanned Racial Discussions in Doctrinal Classes,” Institute for Law Teaching and Learning, Law Teaching Blog (May 16, 2019).

Rosa Castello, Incorporating Social Justice into the Law School Curriculum with a Hybrid Doctrinal/Writing Course, 50 J. Marshall L. Rev. 221 (2017).

Kim Forde-Mazrui, Learning Law Through the Lens of Race, 21 J. L. & Pol. 1 (2005).

Eric C. Lain, Racialized Interactions in the Law School Classroom: Pedagogical Approaches to Creating a Safe Learning Environment, 67 J. Legal Educ. 780 (2018).

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Toward a Race-Conscious Pedagogy, 11 Nat'l Black L. J. 1 (1988).

Anastasia M. Boles, The Culturally Proficient Law Professor: Beginning the Journey, 48 N.M. L. Rev. 145 (2018).

Patrick Sharley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Yaryna Serkez, The Gaps Between White and Black America, in Charts, N.Y. Times (June 19, 2020).

Ian Haney-Lopez, Intentional Blindness, 87 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1779 (2012).

Jens Manuel Krogstad, One in Four Native Americans and Alaska Natives Are Living in Poverty, Pew Research Center (June 13, 2014).

Additional information on the Implicit Association Test (IAT) from Project Implicit.

Margalynne J. Armstrong & Stephanie M. Wildman, Teaching Race/Teaching Whiteness: Transforming Colorblindness to Color Insight, 86 N.C. L. Rev. 635 (2008).

Lorraine Bannai & Anne Enquist, (Un)Examined Assumptions and (Un)Intended Messages: Teaching Students to Recognize Bias in Legal Analysis and Language, 27 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1 (2003).

Cynthia Lee, Race and the Criminal Law Curriculum, Geo. Wash. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2020-15 (2020).

Pat Clark, I Don’t Think I’m Biased, Teaching Tolerance 46(37), (2010).

Alexi Nunn Freeman and Lindsey Webb, Positive Disruption: Addressing Race in a Time of Social Change Through a Team-taught, Reflection-based, Outward-looking Law School, 21 U. Pa. J. L. Soc. Change 121 (2018).

Addie Rolnick, The Promise of Mancari: Indian Political Rights as Racial Remedy, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 958 (2011).

Gabriel Chin, Regulating Race: Asian Exclusion and the Administrative State, 37 Harv. C.R-C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2002).

Mari Matsuda, Voices of America: Accent, Antidiscrimination Law, and a Jurisprudence for the Last Reconstruction, 100 Yale L.J. 1329 (1991).