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Americans See Advantages and Challenges in Country’s Growing Racial and Ethnic Diversity

“As the United States becomes more racially and ethnically diverse, and as companies from Wall Street to Silicon Valley grapple with how to build workforces that reflect these changing demographics, Americans have a complicated, even contradictory, set of views about … Continue reading

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Racial Argument Draws Reversal

A prosecutor's racially-charged rebuttal closing argument led to a reversal of a first degree murder conviction by the North Carolina Court of Appeals. The defendant shot and killed a person in front of his home Sometime between midnight and 1:00… … Continue reading

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Conference Today: Georgetown Law’s 2019 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights to feature Keynote on “Racial Borders” by UN Special Rapporteur

Right now, Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute is hosting the 2019 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: “Human Rights and Today’s Vulnerable Migrants.” The 2019 Dash Conference will focus on the human rights of vulnerable with a keynote address on… … Continue reading

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Argument preview: Virginia racial gerrymandering case returns to Supreme Court

The issue of gerrymandering will be front and center at the Supreme Court in March. On March 26, the justices will tackle two of the highest-profile cases of the term, involving partisan gerrymandering – the idea that state officials went … Continue reading

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Nunn on Legal Theory and the Morality of Conscious Racial Identity @UFLaw @NebLRev

Kenneth B. Nunn, University of Florida College of Law, has published 'Essentially Black': Legal Theory and the Morality of Conscious Racial Identity 97 Nebraska Law Review 287 (2018). Here is the abstract. In philosophy, essentialism involves the claim that everything … Continue reading

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