For Equals Only (eBook)

Race, Equality, and the Equal Protection Clause

Tina Fernandes Botts (Autor)

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2018
142 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-0124-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This book philosophically explores changing conceptions of race and equality in Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause since the enactment of the 14th Amendment. It traces these changing conceptions alongside the gradual elimination of the social equality of racialized persons from the Supreme Court’s list of priorities.

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This book philosophically explores how changing conceptions of race and equality have affected Supreme Court interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution over the years. In the years since the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, in its decisions interpreting the Equal Protection Clause, the Supreme Court has switched from using a sociocultural concept of race to using a biological concept of race, and during the same time period has switched from using a social to a legal concept of equality. One result of these trends is the recent emergence of something called reverse discrimination. Another result is that the Equal Protection Clause no longer specially protects racialized persons from racial discrimination, as it was originally intended to do. Using the tools of legal hermeneutics, critical philosophy of race, and critical race theory, key cases of racial discrimination in equal protection law are examined through a historical lens. The Supreme Court's switch, over the years, from interpreting the Equal Protection Clause as specially protecting racialized persons from continued racial discrimination after the end of the institution of chattel slavery, to interpreting the Clause as protecting everyone from racial discrimination, is tracked alongside changing conceptions of race and equality. As the concept of race became biological, the concept of equality became legal, and the result was the elimination of remedying the negative effects of chattel slavery on the equality status of racialized persons from the Supreme Court's list of priorities.

Autor

Tina Fernandes Botts is assistant professor of philosophy at California State University, Fresno.

Inhalt

Bakke: Racial Discrimination Per Se is FormalizedBakke Fall-OutThe Academic Switch from Biological Race to Sociocultural/Sociohistorical RaceThe Failure of Antidiscrimination Laws to Protect Multiracial Racialized PersonsBiological RacesRacial Discrimination Perpetuates Historically Situated OppressionToward a Distinctive Multiracial Group IdentityAn Additional Modification to Antidiscrimination LawConcluding ReflectionsChapter 6: Thoughts Moving Forward

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Philosophy of Race
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Civil rights law • constitutional law • Continental Philosophy • critical philosophy of race • Critical Race Studies • critical race theory • Derrick Bell • Fourteenth Amendment • George Taylor • Jurisprudence • Legal Hermeneutics • Legal History • Legal philosophy • Legal Studies • legal theory • Philosophy of Law • Philosophy of Race • Political Philosophy • Political Science • political theory • Racialization • Social and political philosophy • US Constitution • US Supreme Court
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-0124-9 / 1498501249
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-0124-8 / 9781498501248