Browsing by Subject "race"
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Art and Race: Exploring Social Justice Issues Through Visual Culture
(Northern Illinois University, 2017-12-07)Art and Race: Exploring Social Justice Issues through Visual Culture, a high school art curriculum, explores how race and social justice issues in visual culture connect to historical concepts within the realm of social ... -
Congressional Enforcement of Affirmative Democracy Through Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2005-05)One might instinctively think, as suggested by several commentators, that section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, a race-based remedy imposed by Congress on state and local governments, has a good chance of being declared ... -
Doe v. University of Michigan, District Court Strikes Down University Policy Against Racial Harassment on Grounds of Vagueness and Overbreadth
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1991-11)This note examines the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan decision invalidating the University of Michigan's racial harassment policy. The issue facing the court was one of first impression ... -
Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co.: Reasoned or Result Oriented Jurisprudence?
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1992-05)This note examines the United States Supreme Court decision finding a private litigant's use of peremptory challenges to exclude jurors on account of race in a civil case constituted "state action" and violated the excluded ... -
McCleskey v. Kemp: The Shadow of Racism on the Capital Sentencing Process
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1987-11)This Note discusses the United States Supreme Court decision refusing to infer abuse of prosecutorial discretion in a specific case from a statistical study showing that defendant's whose victims were white are over 4 times ... -
Miller v. Johnson: Drawing the Line on Racial Gerrymandering
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 1996-11)By rejecting the Georgia State Legislature's attempt to redraw its political districts to ensure election of black representatives, the Supreme Court in Miller v. Johnson exposed a fallacy that served as the foundation for ... -
Race, Poverty, and Bail: An Annotated Bibliography
(Northern Illinois University Law Review, 2018-07)On June 9, 2017, Illinois's Bail Reform Act of 2017 was signed into law by Governor Bruce Rauner. Among other important provisions, the Act creates a presumption that non-monetary release conditions will be granted for ... -
“We Are Here to Assist All Individuals Who Need Hospice Services”: Hospices’ Perspectives on Improving Access and Inclusion for Racial/Ethnic Minorities
(SAGE, 2020-05)Background: Racial/ethnic minority populations in the United States are less likely to utilize hospice services nearing their end of life, potentially diminishing their quality of care while also increasing medical costs. ...