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Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism Resources: Black America

This guide brings together resources on racism and violence against Black people in the United States.

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Scholarship from W&L Law

Academic publications, presentations, and archival materials from the W&L Law faculty, Washington and Lee Law Review, W&L Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Capital Defense JournalFrances Lewis Law Center, and Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives discussing topics at the intersection of race, racism, and the law. All items are linked and freely accessible in the W&L Law Scholarly Commons. Click the tabs to view scholarship across the decades. Items are presented in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent at the top of each list.

Antiracism in Action
Author: Daniel Harawa, Brandon Hasbrouck
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 08/2021
The Soft-Shoe and Shuffle of Law School Hiring Committee Practices
Author: Carliss N. Chatman, Najarian R. Peters
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 05/2021
Confronting Mass Incarceration
Author: James Forman Jr.
Publication: The John Randolph Tucker Lecture Date: 03/2021
The Unconstitutional Police
Author: Brandon Hasbrouck
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 07/2021
Abolishing Racist Policing With the Thirteenth Amendment
Author: Brandon Hasbrouck
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 07/2020
White Saviors
Author: Brandon Hasbrouck
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Online Date: 07/2020
Social Activism Through Shareholder Activism
Author: Lisa M. Fairfax
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 11/2019
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson: W&L Law Faculty Panel
Authors: John D. King, Jonathan Shapiro, Nora V. Demleitner, Brandon Hasbrouck, David I. Bruck, et al.
Publication: Library Events Date: 03/2019
Bringing Racial Justice to the Courtroom and Community: Race Matters for Juvenile Justice and the Charlotte Model
Authors: Susan McCarter, Elisa Chinn-Gary, Louis A. Trosch, Jr., Ahmed Toure, Abraham Alsaeedi, et al.
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Online Date: 03/2017
Panel Discussion: "Brown v. Board of Education & Affirmative Action in a 'Post Racial' America"
Authors: Ann MacLean Massie, Lawrence Blum, Sheryll Cashin, Ted Delaney, Paul Finkelman
Publication: Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Events Date: 02/2015
Black History Month
Author: John N. Jacob
Publication: Powell Archives Web Exhibits Date: 02/2012

Academic publications, presentations, and archival materials from the W&L Law faculty, Washington and Lee Law Review, W&L Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Capital Defense JournalFrances Lewis Law Center, and Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives discussing topics at the intersection of race, racism, and the law. All items are linked and freely accessible in the W&L Law Scholarly Commons. Click the tabs to view scholarship across the decades. Items are presented in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent at the top of each list.

Exercises in the Regulation of Hate Speech
Author: Rodney A. Smolla
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 01/2007
The End of Preclearance As We Knew It: How the Supreme Court Transformed Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act
Authors: Peyton McCrary, Christopher B. Seaman, Richard Valelly
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 04/2006
What Intergroup Relations Research Can Tell Us About Coalition Building
Authors: Robyn K. Mallett, Stacey Sinclair, Jeffrey R. Huntsinger
Publication: Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Date: 09/2005
Paper Daughters
Author: Nancy K. Ota
Publication: Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Date: 09/2005
Pensions, Risk, and Race
Author: Dorothy A. Brown
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/2004
Racial Dimensions of Credit and Bankruptcy
Author: David A. Skeel, Jr.
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/2004
Fighting Racism in the Twenty-First Century
Author: Dorothy A. Brown
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/2004
Race Matters in Bankruptcy
Author: A. Mechele Dickerson
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/2004
A Call to Leadership: The Future of Race Relations in Virginia
Author: Rodney A. Smolla
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 01/2004
Racial Disparities in the Capital System: Invidious or Accidental?
Author: Kathryn Roe Eldridge
Publication: Capital Defense Journal Date: 03/2002
Challenges to Racial Redistricting in the New Millennium: Hunt v. Cromartie as a Case Study
Authors: Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Luis Fuentes-Rohwer
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/2001

Academic publications, presentations, and archival materials from the W&L Law faculty, Washington and Lee Law Review, W&L Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Capital Defense JournalFrances Lewis Law Center, and Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives discussing topics at the intersection of race, racism, and the law. All items are linked and freely accessible in the W&L Law Scholarly Commons. Click the tabs to view scholarship across the decades. Items are presented in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent at the top of each list.

Policing Diversity: Lessons from Lambeth
Authors: A. Benjamin Spencer
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 01/2000
The Ghosts of Homer Plessy
Author: Rodney A. Smolla
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 06/1996
Plessy v. Ferguson — 100 Years Later
Author: Hon. John Minor Wisdom
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/1996
Discriminatory Intent
Author: Lewis H. LaRue
Publication: Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice Date: 04/1995
The Police and Violent Crime
Author: Joseph D. McNamara
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 03/1994
The Role of Race in the Memphis Courts
Author: D'Army Bailey
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 03/1994
Deliberate Indifference: Judicial Tolerance of Racial Bias in Criminal Justice
Authors: Bryan A. Stevenson, Ruth E. Friedman
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 03/1994
A Minority View of Juvenile "Justice"
Author: Coramae Richey Mann
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 03/1994
Tester Standing Under Title VII
Author: Shannon E. Brown
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 06/1992

Academic publications, presentations, and archival materials from the W&L Law faculty, Washington and Lee Law Review, W&L Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Capital Defense JournalFrances Lewis Law Center, and Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives discussing topics at the intersection of race, racism, and the law. All items are linked and freely accessible in the W&L Law Scholarly Commons. Click the tabs to view scholarship across the decades. Items are presented in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent at the top of each list.

Race and the Police Power: 1890 to 1937
Author: Richard A. Epstein
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/1989
A Letter to Professor Burt
Author: Milner S. Ball
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/1985
The 1982 Amendments to the Voting Rights Act: A Legislative History
Authors: Thomas M. Boyd, Stephen J. Markman
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/1983
Velde v. National Black Police Association, Inc.
Author: Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Publication: Supreme Court Case Files Date: 10/1981
The Rhetoric of Powell's Bakke
Author: Lewis H. LaRue
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/1981
A Comment on "The Rhetoric of Powell's Bakke"
Author: Jan Deutsch
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/1981
Response to "The Rhetoric of Powell's Bakke"
Author: James B. White
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/1981

Academic publications, presentations, and archival materials from the W&L Law faculty, Washington and Lee Law Review, W&L Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice, Capital Defense JournalFrances Lewis Law Center, and Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives discussing topics at the intersection of race, racism, and the law. All items are linked and freely accessible in the W&L Law Scholarly Commons. Click the tabs to view scholarship across the decades. Items are presented in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent at the top of each list.

An Implied Private Right of Action Under Title VI
Author: Rebecca D. Graves
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 01/1980
Chapters of the Civil Jury
Author: Doug Rendleman
Publication: Scholarly Articles Date: 07/1977
A Jury of One's Peers
Author: Lewis H. LaRue
Publication: Washington and Lee Law Review Date: 09/1976
Runyon v. McCrary
Author: Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Publication: Supreme Court Case Files Date: 10/1975
A Strategy for Campus Peace
Author: Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
Publication: Powell Speeches Date: 11/1968
Notes For Law Day Speech
Author: Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Publication: Powell Speeches Date: 05/1966
Law and Poverty
Author: Lewis F. Powell Jr.
Publication: Powell Speeches Date: 06/1965