The power to police racial classifications was foundational to white supremacy. The refusal to acknowledge multiracial identities is a legacy of this history.
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The next time you hear about a Supreme Court concurrence or dissent, pay attention. You may get a window to where the law is headed in the future.
Though the Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended racial discrimination in public places, relics of the Jim Crow South still haunt modern memory.
Throughout Thomas’ tenure on the court, he has pushed the Supreme Court to replace Marshall’s vision with one more amenable to the powerful than the powerless.
Though the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling required the integration of public education, US schools remain separated by race.
Digging deeply into the nation’s past can help illuminate the racial setbacks facing the US today.
Brown v. Board didn’t overrule ‘separate-but-equal’ but it had that end. A law scholar explains how there is a lesson there for conservatives on today’s Court looking to end abortion in the US.
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin,’ the best seller of the 19th century, is not a relic from the past. The complex Uncle Tom figure still has a hold over Black politics.
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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FedEx Professor of Law; Author of The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas, University of Memphis
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Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Miami University
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Assistant Professor of History and Community Engagement, St. John Fisher University
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Dean, USC Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
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Lecturer in Legal Studies, Bryant University
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Regents Professor, Arizona State University
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies, University of Sydney