The
Supreme Court and Race
Spring, 2019 - jimbolnersr @
gmail.com
Course
Description: "Analyze the ways that the U.S. Supreme Court has
interpreted constitutional and statutory provisions relating to
race. Examine the Court’s most important decisions dealing with
slavery, and the Court’s interpretation of key constitutional and
federal legislation in areas such as: civil and voting rights,
public accommodations, housing, education, criminal justice,
national security, interracial marriage, and affirmative action."
Outline
I.
Race and racism in the United States
Demographic facts
Racial attitudes and their
consequences
Approaches to constitutional and
statutory interpretation
II. How the Supreme Court
Works
The court system and Supreme
Court Jurisdiction
Accepting and
deciding cases
III. The Original Constitution and Race
Colonialism and
Slavery
The Three-Fifths "Compromise"
Article IV and fugitive slaves
The Dred Scott (1856) decision
IV. The Reconstruction
Amendments and Race
How the
amendments were interpreted
The Slaughterhouse Cases
(1873)
The Civil Rights Cases
(1883)
Plessy
v. Ferguson (1896) and
"Separate but Equal"
The Corporate Exploitation of the Fourteenth Amendment
V.
The Civil Rights Era
The
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Litigation Before Brown v.
Board of Education
(1954)
The Court Interprets
the civil rights laws of the 1960's
VI. The
Future of the Supreme Court and Race
The persistence of race in American life
Internet Resources
Dredd Scott v. Sandford (1856)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada (1938)
Louis Menand,
"The Supreme Court Case That Enshrined White Supremacy in Law"
--from The New Yorker, February 4, 2019
James Bolner, Sr. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896)
Charles S. Dameron,
"'Separate': Drawing the Color Line" --from The Wall
Street Journal, February 24, 2019
U.S. Federal Courts 101 --from the usconstitution.org
The
Supreme Court of the United States - Official website
The Supreme Court of the United States --from the U.S.
Government Organization Manual (2018)
The Fedeal Court System in the United States --from the
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
The United States Federal Courts --from ballotpedia.org
U.S. Federal District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
--from uscourts.gov
U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fifth Circuit --from uscourts.gov
Timothy R. Johnson,"
"The Supreme Court Decision Making Process" --from the
Oxford Research Encyclopedia (2018)
"Constitutional Topic: Slavery": --from usconstitution.net
Oral Arguments Before
the Supreme Court - 2018-2019 Term --from oyez.org
Supreme Court Blog - A
first-class source of information about the Court
Supreme Court of the United States --from ballotpedia.org
Statistics -
(Supreme Court Justices' Voting Patterns) --from scotusblog.com
Lawfare - A rich
repository of crucial commentary and documents ""
Harvard Law Review - Supreme Court Statistics - 2018 Term -
More
Supreme
Court Cases on Race --from
findlaw.com
10
Racist U.S. Supreme Court Rulings --from thoughtco.com
Shelby County v. Holder (2013)
American Slave Court Cases --from Wikipedia.com
Slavery and the Law in Virginia --from history.org
Ten
Important Supreme Court Decisions in Black History --from
infoplease.coms
A
Brief History of Race and the Supreme Court --from
http://repository.upenn.edu
Anenoma Hartcollis,
"50
Years of Affirmative Action: What Went Right, What Went Wrong?"
--from The New York Times, March 30, 2019
Margaret Kramer,
"A Timeline of Key Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action"
--from The New York Times, March 30, 2019
Fisher v. University of Texas (2016) --from supremecourt.gov
Affirmative Action Fast Facts --from CNN
Trump v. Hawaii (2018) --The Court upholds the Muslim travel
ban.
Trump v. Hawaii
(2018) --from oyez.org
Supreme Court Appointment Process: Consideration by the Senate
Judiciary Committee
(August, 2018) --from the Congressional Research Service
Supreme Court Nominations, 1789 to 2017: Actions by the Senate, the
Judiciary Committee,
and the President (July, 2018) --from the Congressional Research
Service
The
Supreme Court's Overruling of Constitutional Precedent
(September, 2018) --from the
Congressional Research Service
Charles Warren, The Supreme Court in United
States History (1922) --from the Internet Archive
Vol. I -
Vol II -
Vol. III - A classic history of the Court up to the 1920's
Affirmative Action Fast Facts --from CNN (October 23, 2018)
Google Results for "Supreme Court decisions race"
Louis Menand,
"The
Supreme Court Case that Enshrined White Supremacy in Law" --from
The New Yorker, February 4, 2019
David Brooks,
"The Case for Reparations" --from The New York Times,
March 7, 2019
George F. Will,
"On Reparations" --from The Washington Post, March 6,
2019
Jason L. Riley,
"The Illogic of Racial Reparaations at This Late Date" --from
The Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2019
Jay Winik,
"Do
Abolishtionists Owe Reparations" --from The New York Times,
March 24, 2019
Ta-Neshi Coates,
"The Case for Reparations" --from The Atlantic, June,
2014
James Bolner, Sr. -
"Toward a Theory of Racial Reparations" --from Phylon,
(1968)
Adam Winkler,
"Corporations are People" --from The Atlantic, March 6,
2019
Jesse Wegman,
"The Man
Who Changed the Constitution, Twice" --from The New York
Times, March 14, 2019
Prfesident John F. Kennedy's Speech on Civil Rights, June 11, 1963
Meghan Flynn, "The U.S.
Should Get More Credit for Ending Slavery" --from The
Washington Post, March 20, 2019
Robert Kagan,
"The Strongmen Strike Back"
--from The Washington Post,
March 14, 2019
Adam Gropnik,
"Why the
South Won the Civil War" -- from The New Yorker, April
8, 2019
Special
Elizabeth Goitein,
"The Alarming Scope of the President's Embergency Powers" --from
The Atlantic, February, 2019
McKee v. Cosby (2019) --Justice Thomas' attach on New York
Times v. Sullivan (1964)
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