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Articles in Race tagged with Law and Justice

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Will Holub-Moorman

Revisiting When Affirmative Action Was White, nearly two decades on.

Ira Katznelson

Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality.

Christopher Newfield

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Joseph Margulies

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

David Hogg, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Kathleen Belew

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader

The language of universal rights can be a powerful tool for advancing social justice.

Paul Gowder

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

David Hogg, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Randall L. Kennedy

The system's roots aren't in rescuing children, but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

nia t. evans, Dorothy Roberts

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