Book contents
- Critical Race Judgments
- Critical Race Judgments
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Advisory Committee
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 347 U.S. 483 (1954)BROWN et al.
- Part I Membership and Inclusion
- Part II Participation and Access
- Part III Property and Space
- 60 U.S. 393Supreme Court of the United States
- 538 U.S. 343Supreme Court of the United States
- 403 U.S. 217Supreme Court of the United States
- 401 U.S. 424 (1971)Supreme Court of the United States
- 426 U.S. 229Supreme Court of the United States
- 389 U.S. 347Supreme Court of the United States
- 528 U.S. 119Supreme Court of the United States
- Part IV Intimate Choice and Autonomy
- Part V Justice
426 U.S. 229Supreme Court of the United States
Walter E. WASHINGTON, MAYOR OF WASHINGTON, D.C., et al., Petitionersv.Alfred E. DAVIS et al.No. 74–1492
from Part III - Property and Space
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 April 2022
- Critical Race Judgments
- Critical Race Judgments
- Copyright page
- Contents
- About the Contributors
- Advisory Committee
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 347 U.S. 483 (1954)BROWN et al.
- Part I Membership and Inclusion
- Part II Participation and Access
- Part III Property and Space
- 60 U.S. 393Supreme Court of the United States
- 538 U.S. 343Supreme Court of the United States
- 403 U.S. 217Supreme Court of the United States
- 401 U.S. 424 (1971)Supreme Court of the United States
- 426 U.S. 229Supreme Court of the United States
- 389 U.S. 347Supreme Court of the United States
- 528 U.S. 119Supreme Court of the United States
- Part IV Intimate Choice and Autonomy
- Part V Justice
Summary
Argued March 1, 1976.Decided June 7, 1976.
Ms. Justice CRENSHAW delivered the opinion of the Court.1
Since Africans were brought to North America to serve whites four centuries ago, nothing has been more closely associated with their status as enslavable people than the power granted to policing agents to surveil, control, capture, and punish them. And during slavery and since, nothing has been used to justify the brutal coercion of those deemed enslavable more than the idea that their subjugation was due to inherent deficiencies purportedly tied to race: physical, moral, temperamental, and intellectual. Even science has been manipulated to advance the false proposition that the purported inferiority of African people is objectively observable, quantifiable, and inalterable, a transhistorical characteristic of an essentialized Blackness thought to exist entirely apart from the specific contours of racial subjugation.
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- Critical Race JudgmentsRewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and the Law, pp. 377 - 402Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022