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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBecoming Free, Becoming Black<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, Cambridge University Press) - Professor Ariela Gross and Harvard University Professor Alejandro de la Fuente explore the efforts of free people of color to employ the law in asserting their freedom and rights to citizenship.<\/p>
Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2014, NYU Press) - Professor Daria Roithmayr argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDemocracy As A Slogan<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2010, American Constitution Society) - Professor Franita Tolson discusses the sometimes fleeting commitment to democracy demonstrated by the U.S. throughout its history.<\/p>
Congress Has Constitutional Power to Set National Police Conduct Standards<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020,\u00a0Bloomberg Law<\/em>) - Professor Rebecca Brown and Lecturer Omar Noureldin call for Congress to pass legislation creating federal oversight over local police.<\/p>
A Grassroots History of Colorblind Conservative Constitutionalism<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2019, Law & Social Inquiry) - Professor Ariela Gross argues that colorblind conservative constitutionalism has its roots not only in Supreme Court jurisprudence and the machinations of national political actors, but also in the deliberate campaigns of opponents of integration at the grassroots.<\/p>
Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2018, American Journal of Criminal Law) - Professor Jody David Armour focuses on how flawed judgments about character contribute to fundamental problems in the American criminal justice system.<\/p>
The Dynamics of Excessive Force<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2016, University of Chicago Legal Forum) - Professor Daria Roithmayr argues that patterns of excessive force dynamically emerge from local interactions among individuals that aggregate to form more global patterns of escalation, contagion, and decay.<\/p>
Nigga Theory: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity in the Substantive Criminal Law<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2014,\u00a0Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law<\/em>) - Professor Jody David Armour probes the intersection of morality, race, and class in matters of blame and punishment and politics.<\/p>
Angela Harris and the Racial Politics of Masculinity<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2014, California Law Review) - Professor Camille Gear Rich gives a new take on how race and gender intersect in policing cases, and how threats to masculinity drive police violence separate from racism and the ways racial identity issues intersect with race.<\/p>
Inferred Classifications<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2013, Virginia Law Review ) - Professor Stephen M. Rich discusses a fundamental problem in constitutional law: that equal protection doctrine commands strict scrutiny of all racial classifications but does not specify what constitutes a racial classification.<\/p>
Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(1994, Stanford\u00a0Law Review<\/em>) - Professor Jody David Armour explores some of the legal implications of the disturbing notion that, given the perception that blacks are more prone to commit violent acts than nonblacks, it is rational for criminal defendants claiming self-defense to consider race in assessing the risk of violence posed by a supposed assailant.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIs voting enough?<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, Free and Fair with Franita and Foley) - In response to the Black Lives Matter protests, some are calling for people of color to \"just vote.\" But in a country with a history of voter suppression and disenfranchisement, is voting enough? Professor Franita Tolson responds to the hypocrisy of this suggestion and discusses racial equality as an ongoing commitment.<\/p>
The Truth of Being Black in America<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences) - Professor Jody David Armour joins experts and activists to discuss the ways the health and lives of some Americans are in jeopardy simply because they're black.<\/p>
Black History Month: Discussions on Race, Media and the Law<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, USC Facebook Live) - Professor Jody David Armour and USC Annenberg Assistant Professor Allissa V. Richardson discuss the intersections of journalism and justice regarding race in America.<\/p>
Reflecting on the Legacy of MLK Jr., Equity & Inclusion in Today's America<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, USC Facebook Live) - Professor Camille Gear Rich and USC Race and Equity Center's Dr. Shaun R. Harper discuss the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. and the challenges we still face today.<\/p>
Speaking Out Loud: Enough is Enough<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs) - Black USC students, staff, faculty and allies to decompress and discuss anti-blackness and systemic issues that plague the pan-African community in America.<\/p>
The Time is Now: Rooting Out Racism<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2020, NBCLA Virtual Town Hall) - NBCLA's Beverly White brings together some of the leading voices, including USC Gould Professor Jody David Armour, fighting for real reform and solutions in the battle against racism.<\/p>
Understanding Black Lives Matter<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(reposted 2020, The Kyle Thiermann Show) - Professor Jody David Armour discusses Black Lives Matter with Kyle Thiermann.<\/p>
Beating Mental Illness: A Dialogue on Race, Gender, and Disability in Use of Force Cases<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(2016, USC Gould Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics) - Video playlist from 2016 conference featuring Black Lives Matter organizers, cross-disciplinary academic experts, activists, and representatives of ACLU, Los Angeles Police Department.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t