Blown Chances
Vol. 139 No. 5
At some point, less than two decades after the United States Supreme Court found racial segregation in the public schools to be unconstitutional, the...
Critical Race Theory
How to Get Free in a Time of Retrenchment
Vol. 138 No. 7
Queering Reproductive Justice and Liberating Abortion are not books of theory. I want to make this clear from the start because the work of “queering” a topic can sometimes be followed by paragraphs filled with words like deontological, epistemic, and discursive (not that there’s anything wrong with those words).
Politics of Belonging: Anti-Black Racism, Xenophobia, and Disinformation
Racialized and xenophobic disinformation reinforces an anti-Black and anti-immigrant vision of America where powerful actors intentionally promulgate false information that becomes the norm defining...
Unshielded: How the Police Can Become Touchable
Vol. 137 No. 3
We’re Americans. — Red Introduction I grew up in upstate New York. My family was poor. We were one of a handful of Black...
Legal Borderlands and Imperial Legacies: A Response to Maggie Blackhawk’s The Constitution of American Colonialism
Response to The Constitution of American Colonialism
Vol. 137 No. 1
What are the borderlands? In her brilliant and sweeping exploration of the “constitution of American colonialism,” Professor Maggie Blackhawk references the borderlands dozens of...
Roberts’s Revisions: A Narratological Reading of the Affirmative Action Cases
Vol. 137 No. 1
Introduction In law, one of the stories told by some scholars is that legal opinions are not stories. The story goes: legal opinions are...
Policing “Bad” Mothers
Vol. 136 No. 8
Introduction Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers is not a great book. I don’t mean that in the sense the writer Judith Newman...
The Unpragmatic Family Law of Marginalized Families
Response to Pragmatic Family Law
Vol. 136 No. 6
Introduction In her excellent article Pragmatic Family Law, Professor Clare Huntington argues that divisive issues roiling U.S. politics, law, and society — such as abortion rights,...
Racism, Abolition, and Historical Resemblance
Forum response to Professor Bridges' Foreword
Response to Race in the Roberts Court
Vol. 136 No. 1
Race in the Roberts Court
Vol. 136 No. 1
When it comes to people of color, the Roberts Court treats “racism” as if it is an objective fact — out there in the world, apparent to anyone who stumbles upon it. The Roberts Court invites observers to believe that it is just using simple common sense when it identifies, or refuses to identify, something as racism.