{"title":"Immigration and Race","authors":"Jennifer M. Chacón","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.27","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter assesses how the regulation of immigration and citizenship in the United States is inextricably intertwined with the history of race and racism in the United States. It surveys US history in four periods: the founding era through the Civil War, the post-Civil War era through the death of Reconstruction, the Progressive era through the passage of the federal civil rights laws of the 1960s, and the 1960s through the present. Though the legal line separating desirable from undesirable—and therefore admissible from inadmissible—immigrants has shifted over time, anti-Black racism has structured the drawing of that line across different historical periods. As a result, immigration law has not just reflected racial bias. Rather, these laws, in conjunction with citizenship laws, have also defined racial categories in the United States and delimited the racial boundaries of the nation. Understood in that way, immigration has not simply reflected prevailing forms of racial bias; rather, it has effectively legalized US racism in ways that both produced and sustained racial hierarchies. This legalized racism has not disappeared. It persists today—in color-blind form—impervious to the civil rights revolution of the mid-1960s.","PeriodicalId":245365,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134613341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intentionally Incorporating Race into the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Curriculum","authors":"Sha-Shana Crichton","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.44","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.44","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the question of whether law schools should intentionally incorporate race in the first-year legal writing and research (LWR) course. First, intentionally incorporating race into the first-year LWR course is essential to preparing all law students to become competent lawyers who can effectively participate in the national and global marketplace and address the legal needs of an increasingly diverse population. Second, addressing race in the first-year LWR course contributes to a more democratic society by building student awareness early in their legal careers to the importance of providing access to justice for all persons. Additionally, exposing students to the impact of race and racial biases on legal outcomes sensitizes them to the dire consequences of inadequate or no legal representation and is likely to propel them to advocate for relevant legal and social reforms. Third, intentionally incorporating race into the first-year LWR course creates a learning environment that facilitates successful learning for all law students. This is particularly critical for law students of color whose ability to learn successfully may be compromised because of an increased risk for chronic stress caused by race-based discrimination inside and outside law school.","PeriodicalId":245365,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129085564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rethinking Implicit Bias","authors":"J. Kahn","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.31","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.31","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes implicit bias and the limits to science as a tool of racial justice. Over the past 20 years, the frame of implicit bias has emerged within legal scholarship and practice to challenge the Supreme Court’s “intentional blindness” largely on its own terms. This approach takes on the concept of intent and tries to reconfigure it in a manner more conducive to serving the interests of racial justice. Specifically, it invokes recent findings in the psychology and neuroscience of implicit social cognition (ISC) to argue that while explicit intent or bias may be increasingly difficult to identify, implicit intent or bias remains pervasive and deeply salient in society, to an extent that both supports findings of discrimination and justifies taking affirmative action to redress resulting racial inequities. Many of those adopting this approach refer to themselves as “behavioral realists.” However, a primary focus on implicit bias tends to obscure the distinctive historical place of racism in the United States that makes it different from other biases.","PeriodicalId":245365,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125207615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race and Tax Law","authors":"Dorothy A. Brown","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.8","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines how federal income tax policy impacts Americans differently depending on their race. Whites and Blacks are differentially eligible for tax breaks and differentially situated to exploit loopholes created by a majority White Congress that enacts tax legislation with the experiences of White taxpayers in mind. The chapter focuses on three tax policy issues: the criteria that identify which income is subject to taxation and which is not, the types of taxable income that are eligible for the preferential (low) tax rate, and the types of expenses that are deductible. The analysis reveals that even though the tax provisions relating to these three issues are formally race-neutral, they systematically benefit White but not Black taxpayers. The chapter then provides the example of tax subsidies for home ownership to show how seemingly race-neutral provisions operate to advantage White taxpayers and disadvantage Black taxpayers.","PeriodicalId":245365,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126521928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race and the Criminal Law Curriculum","authors":"Cynthia K. Y. Lee","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.4","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter briefly sketches a few places in the substantive criminal law curriculum where law professors can include discussion of race to enrich students’ understanding of the law. These include racially based jury nullification, the void-for-vagueness doctrine, hate crimes and the actus reus requirement, voluntary manslaughter and the defense of provocation, involuntary manslaughter, rape, the doctrine of self-defense, the “Black rage” defense, and the “cultural defense.” The chapter also discusses the Guerilla Guides to Law Teaching project, which suggests that criminal law professors introduce the concept of abolition of the carceral state as a framework through which students can “question the core assumptions about the relationship between incarceration, retribution, and utilitarianism, and take seriously the scale of human devastation wrought by incarceration.” While it is critically important to acknowledge the role of race in the criminal justice system and highlight the various ways racial bias can influence the outcomes in criminal cases, it is not necessary to include discussions of race in all of the different ways listed in this chapter. It is important to start by teaching in a traditional fashion and establishing one’s authority in the classroom before incorporating discussions about race into the classroom.","PeriodicalId":245365,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States","volume":"283 11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126950587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race and Evidence","authors":"Jasmine B. Gonzales Rose","doi":"10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190947385.013.14","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter evaluates the role of race in evidence law. It explores ways in which attorneys use race and racism as de facto evidence, judges give White experience preferential admissibility treatment, and courts allow racial injustice to take on evidentiary value at trial. The chapter also considers how racial character evidence is at play in multiple ways in police killings of Black people. The use of racial character evidence is problematic from an anti-discrimination perspective and in light of core concepts of evidence law. With respect to the former, racial character evidence undermines the anti-discrimination principle that people should not be judged on the basis of their race. With respect to the latter, racial character evidence violates crucial commitments in evidence law. Nevertheless, racial character evidence often figures in litigation, unchecked and below the radar.","PeriodicalId":245365,"journal":{"name":"The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States","volume":"125 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115063798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}