Amplifying Diverse Voices: Strategies for Promoting Inclusion in the Law School Classroom (article): This article discusses three ways that professors can make their law school classrooms more inclusive and amplify the voices of their students who are introverts, women, and students of color. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3469793
The Cultural (Re)Turn: The Case for Teaching Culturally Responsive Lawyering (paper). ABA accreditation rules don’t mention culture but mention cultural competence as an optional skill. However, culturally responsive lawyering is required for good lawyering and must be included in modern legal education: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3632980
The False Promise of Anti-Racism Books (article). This article explains that reading anti-racism books isn’t enough to combat racism; actions that tackle racist policies and create systemic change are required: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/07/your-anti-racism-books-are-means-not-end/614281/
Race and Racism in Higher Education: Annotated Bibliography of Articles and Reports.
Speaking Up Without Tearing Down (article): Exploring the idea of “calling in” on students rather than “calling out” as a way to create a more inclusive and educational classroom: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/spring-2019/speaking-up-without-tearing-down
What Critical Race Studies Teaches Us About Racism, Resistance, & Policing. A UCLA Law Critical Race Studies Program (webinar) conversation featuring CRS faculty members E. Tendayi Achiume, Devon W. Carbado, and Cheryl I. Harris, moderated by CRS Faculty Director Laura E. Gómez. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/FFGHoDQaTW8
White Doors, Black Footsteps: Leveraging “White Privilege” to Benefit Law Students of Color by Leslie Culver. (law review article) An article about what white professors can do to help their students of color succeed in law school. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2878185
ONLINE RESOURCES:
A short thread for BIPOC teachers and students for when they are asked to do DEI work (“negotiating a yes”): https://twitter.com/meeradeo/status/1283496506528419840?s=21; full thread here: https://t.co/RSdIXty5sU?amp=1
Google group dedicated to “teaching the 1L curriculum in more inclusive, progressive, and anti-racist ways that are responsive to our current moment:” https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/1lnow/join
Radical Law Student Project at the National Lawyers Guild. It provides a framework of how to change the culture of law school and it criticizes modern law school education: https://www.nlg.org/radical-law-student-project/
Young, Gifted, @ Risk, and Resilient: A Video Toolkit to Support the Well-being of Students of Color (videos): https://medium.com/national-center-for-institutional-diversity/young-gifted-risk-and-resilient-4bc84efca3c6
TOPIC SPECIFIC RESOURCES:
Blue-on-Black Violence: A Provisional Model of Some of the Causes by Devon Carbado. (law review) Consider sharing/teaching this article if you’re teaching a class that covers qualified immunity. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2808010
Breaking the Silence: Civil and Human Rights Violations Resulting from Medical Neglect and Abuse of Women of Color in Los Angeles County Jails. (report) Consider sharing this report if you’re teaching a class on human rights, civil rights, incarceration, reproductive justice, or similar clases. http://dignityandpowernow.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/breaking_silence_report_2015.pdf
Fisher’s Foibles: From Race and Class to Class Not Race by Cheryl I. Harris. (law review article) Consider sharing/teaching this article if you’re teaching Constitutional Law. https://www.uclalawreview.org/fishers-foibles-race-class-class-not-race/
From Stopping Black People to Killing Black People: The Fourth Amendment Pathways to Police Violence by Devon Carbado. (law review article) Consider sharing/teaching this article if you’re teaching a class on Criminal Procedure. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2844312
Race, Refugees, and International Law by Tendayi Achiume. (law review article) Consider sharing/teaching this article if you’re teaching a class on human rights and/or international law. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3636518
Statement at the Human Rights Council Urgent Debate on the situation in the US by Tendayi Achiume. (video) Consider sharing/teaching this video you’re teaching a class on human rights and/or international law. https://youtu.be/ODQYsrOfWLA
UN Report: Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Racial Intolerance. (report) Consider sharing/teaching this report if you’re teaching a class on human rights and/or international law. https://undocs.org/A/74/321 A summary of the report is available here: https://antiracismsr.org/thematicreports/
The United States’ Racial Justice Problem is Also an International Human Rights Law Problem by Tendayi Achiume. (article) Consider sharing/teaching this article if you’re teaching comparative law, international law, and/or human rights. https://www.justsecurity.org/70589/the-united-states-racial-justice-problem-is-also-an-international-human-rights-law-problem/
White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes” Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction by Deborah N. Archer. (law review article) Consider sharing/teaching this article if you’re teaching Property. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3539889
Women Beyond Bars: Reentry and Human Rights. (report) Consider sharing this report if you’re teaching a class on human rights, civil rights, incarceration, or similar clases. https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Academics/WOMEN%20BEYOND%20BARS%20EXEC%20SUMMARY%20FINAL.pdf
BOOKS ON STRUCTURAL RACISM & POLICE BRUTALITY
Baradaran, Mehrsa. The Color of Money, Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap. HU Press. 2018.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
Butler, Paul. Chokehold: Policing Black Men. New Press. 2018.
Cashin, Sheryll. The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream. Public Affairs. 2005.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005
Lipsitz, George. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics. Temple Press, 2018.
Massey, Douglas S. and Nancy A. Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Oliver, Melvin L. & Thomas M. Shapiro. Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge, 2006.
Pastor, Manuel. Equity, Growth and Community. What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas. UC Press, 2015.
Roithmayr, Daria. Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage. New York: N.Y.U. Press, 2014.
Royster, Dierdre. Race and The Invisible Hand: How Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue Collar Jobs. University of California Press, 2003.
Sampson, Robert. Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Shapiro, Thomas M. The Hidden Cost of Being African American: How Wealth Perpetuates Inequality. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Sugrue, Thomas J. The Origins of the Urban Crisis Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamhatta. Race For Profit. How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Homeownership. UNC Press, 2019.
Vitale, Alex. The End of Policing. Verso. 2017.
Other Works:
Raj Chetty’s work, described here. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2020/06/09/872402262/what-a-1968-report-tells-us-about-the-persistence-of-racial-inequality. Co-author of Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: an Intergenerational Perspective.
Ford, Richard Thompson. The Boundaries of Race: Political Geography in Legal Analysis. 107 Harvard Law Review 449 (1995).
BOOKS ON RACE
Gomez, Laura E. Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism. The New Press, 2020.
Gomez, Laura E. Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. NYU Press, 2018.
McClain, Russell A. The Guide to Belonging in Law School. West Academic, 2020. The book reviews some of the critical skills needed to succeed in law school. It also “provides a foundation for students from marginalized groups to recognize and manage both subtle and explicit barriers that can impede their progress ... Professor McClain is a nationally-recognized expert on inclusiveness and minority student achievement in law school.” West Academic Publishing.
