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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
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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