Journal of Gender, Race and Justice articles from June 2011

Journal of Gender, Race and Justice archives from June 2011

Post racialism?(discrimination against minority borrowers)
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION The 2008 election of President Barack Obama represents a halcyon moment in U.S. history. President Obama's election begs a critical question: whether his nationwide landslide victory catapulted the United States, with its...

Why reparations to African descendants in the United States are essential to democracy.
June 22, 2011... We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Louis Dembitz Brandeis 1856-1941 Democracy is not identical with majority rule. Democracy is a State which...

Making the case for atonement in "post-racial America".
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION Since the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama, some commentators have characterized America as "post-racial." Without clearly defining that term, these commentators have made clear its...

Historically black college and university law schools: generating multitudes of effective social engineers.
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION "A lawyer is either a social engineer or [a] parasite [on society,]" said the fabled attorney and legendary Dean of Howard University Law School Charles Hamilton Houston, also known as the man who killed Jim Crow. (1)...

Total recall: restoring the public memory of enslaved African-Americans and the American system of slavery through rectificatory justice and reparations.
June 22, 2011... Between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War, the majority of the presidents--from Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Jackson through Tyler, Polk, and Taylor--were slaveholders, and generally substantial ones. The same...

In response to the call for social justice, historically black law schools represent the new mission of educational diversity in the legal profession.
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION Historically Black Law Schools (HBLSs) have become the new face of diversity in legal education. After the Supreme Court held the University of Missouri's practice of excluding blacks from its law school unconstitutional in...

From pipeline to pipe dream: the HBCU effect on law school deans of color.(historically black colleges and universities)
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION Pressure creates diamonds from the rough. Once polished, the diamond shines brightly. The diamond commands admiration and appreciation. The brilliance was always there, but it required force from an underlying source to set it...

Removing the offending member: Iran and the sex-change or die option as the alternative to the death sentencing of homosexuals.
June 22, 2011... 1. INTRODUCTION In Iran, sex-change surgery as a means of the 'normalization' (1) of homosexual men and women is an ongoing policy objective of the theocracy. (2) Iran has "a culture so steeped in hatred of gays and lesbians that it deems a...

Displaced and disillusioned: "free-case" refugees and the government's obligation to facilitate effective resettlement.
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION Due to the civil war that broke out in Burundi in 1972, Foibe Nibitanga "was hunted out of her home and has spent nearly her entire life as a refugee." (1) Escaping the fate of the more than 100,000 who lost their lives during...

Procedural fairness for state abuse registries: the case for the clear and convincing evidence standard.
June 22, 2011... I. INTRODUCTION In Pennsylvania, a sixteen-year-old female student accused a high school driver's education teacher of sexual molestation. (1) A criminal court acquitted James D. Frank, the teacher, of the charges. (2) However, he cannot yet...