The construction of O.J. Simpson as a racial victim

Article Abstract:

The focus on African-American men as the primary victims of racism tends to marginalize the experiences of African-American women with both racism and domestic violence. The characterization of O.J. Simpson as a victim of racism and not as a perpetrator of interpersonal violence demonstrates the privileged status granted African-American men. Issues raised at a 1995 conference on the legal status of African-American women reveals tensions within the African-American community. The community must recognize that the needs of women cannot be subordinated to the project of eliminating racism in the criminal justice system.

United States, Analysis, Cases, Demographic aspects, Family violence, Domestic violence, Simpson, O.J.

---

Rights held hostage: race, ideology and the peremptory challenge

Article Abstract:

The prohibition of racially discriminatory peremptory challenges, whether used to eliminate black jurors or white jurors, does not remedy the systemic race discrimination in the criminal justice system because it does nothing to filter out the prejudices of an all-white jury hearing charges against or on behalf of blacks. Verdicts in cases involving racism or racial issues are not reliable until race-conscious remedies favoring the selection of some black jurors in such cases are adopted. The race-neutral peremptory challenge laws frustrate the right to a representative jury and a fair trial.

Social aspects, Discrimination in criminal justice administration, Criminal justice discrimination, Peremptory challenges

---

Structures of subordination: women of color at the intersection of Title VII and the NLRA. Not!

Article Abstract:

Legal interpretation and doctrines must be directed toward eradicating systemic power imbalances if race and gender discrimination remedies are to be truly effective, especially as concerns African American women's labor and equal employment rights. Realigning legal interpretations and remedies along a liberation legal theory will transform current token grants of equality to African American women into a system of jurisprudence that respects and nourishes African American women's power to influence and change existing institutional structures.

Sex discrimination, Employment discrimination

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: The value of time spent in price-comparison shopping: survey and experimental evidence. Assessing the cross-national applicability of consumer behavior models: a model of attitude toward advertising in general
• Abstracts: An investigation into the social context of early adoption behavior. Pennies-a-day: the effect of temporal reframing on transaction evaluation
• Abstracts: Giving a voice to the dead: forensic scientists join worldwide human rights investigations to uncover the truth
• Abstracts: Helping health care professionals on issues of intimacy and sexuality among the aging. The pause: a closer look at menopause and female sexuality
• Abstracts: Child prostitution: the next push for human rights. The human rights of sexual minorities: a comparative and international law perspective

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.