Excerpt from The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy
Explaining a new concept of race and power, called political race, through the metaphor of a miner's canary. This concept links race with social movements.
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Explaining a new concept of race and power, called political race, through the metaphor of a miner's canary. This concept links race with social movements.
Using the theories of political race to understand social movements, and how white organizers can and should defer to people of color within the movement.
A poem from the Blackout Arts Collective, exploring themes of movement-building through poetry.
Analyzing affirmative action policies as part of the "political race" movement, focusing on the lawsuits against the University of Michigan as a case study.
AG should be the custodian of immigrants in INS custody (not the warden), and habeas corpus actions should be directed at the AG as the appropriate respondent.
There needs to be effective state postconviction procedures; looks at Case v. Nebraska and builds upon that principle while offering further suggestions.
The Court and the prosecution in People v. Franco failed in improving criminal justice system by not adopting lineup reforms.
The flaws of the public health system played a role in exacerbating legal issues of pregnant women being arrested in hospitals.
Comparative proportionality review protects death penalty defendants' procedural rights and ensures fairness and compliance with the Eighth Amendment.
Amici are teachers in New York law schools who have studied the operation of the death penalty for the purpose of teaching the subject, writing about it in scholarly journals, or representing persons accused or convicted of capital crimes. Most
Is AEDPA's statute of limitations constitutional in barring habeas corpus petitions in situations where petitioners can make a "colorable showing" of innocence.
The death penalty is an issue that affects the LGBT community and that hate crime legislation is not helpful to advancing the interests of the community.