Reminder: Lecture on Affirmative-Action and the Myth of a Post-Racial World
Reminder- my lecture will take place tomorrow from Noon until 1:00pm in the Wadsworth Auditorium (located in the Corning Building of the Empire State Plaza). NYS Lecture 1
View ArticleKirwan Postscript
I had a wonderful time presenting on “Race and Bioethics” at the Kirwan Institute conference this past weekend, with my fellow panelists Prof. Dorothy Roberts, Prof. Lisa Ikemoto, and Prof. Osagie...
View ArticlePostscript for ALS Event: Why Me? Racial Profiling and the Trayvon Martin Case
This past Wednesday (4/11), the Black Law Students Association (“BLSA”) singlehandedly arranged a very important event at Albany Law School on racial profiling and the Trayvon Martin case. Led by...
View ArticleI shouldn’t have left you…
without a dope beat to step to. In all seriousness, my hope is that this post marks the return of an ACTIVE Race and the Law blog. My research assistants (and myself) have a number of interesting...
View ArticleFacing Race Conference: November 16-17th (Baltimore, Md.)
Readers may be interested in attending the largest national conference on racial justice issues the weekend before Thanksgiving. The Facing Race conference, sponsored by the Applied Research...
View ArticleFacing Race Postscript
The Facing Race conference was a huge success! Many thanks to Rinku Sen (President of Applied Research Center (“ARC”), publisher of Colorlines) and the wonderful people at ARC for organizing such an...
View ArticleThe Constitution is Not Colorblind (authored by C.M.)
It was 116 years ago that Justice Harlan announced in an infamous (and at times controversial)[1] dissent that the Constitution is colorblind.[2] Harlan’s dissent has been credited by more than one...
View ArticleThe Colorblind Rationale and Race Science
The last post on the site was prepared by one of my research assistants, “C.M.”, critiquing colorblind constitutionalism. While the critique of colorblind constitutionalism is not new, C.M’s post...
View ArticleAALS Conference: Biopolitics, Race, Gender and Sex
A very interesting panel discussion will take place during the annual AALS conference in New Orleans on January 4, 2013 from 2-500pm. The panelists will examine the increasing biopolitics of socially...
View ArticleRace in a Bottle
Johnathan Kahn, a professor at Hamline law and an amazing scholar on bio-race issues, has just published what will prove to be an enlightening (yet disturbing) examination of Bidil – the first...
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