Vol. 72, Issue 4, 2009

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ON ACCOUNT OF RACE OR COLOR: RACE AS CORPORATION AND THE ORIGINAL UNDERSTANDING OF RACE

Reginald Oh

This essay is a critique of constitutional and political discourse on “race.”

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DEFINING RACE THROUGH LAW: ENFORCING THE SOCIAL NORMS OF POWER AND PRIVILEGE

Donna E. Young

This essay argues that it is clear that race privilege is likely to go unchallenged in the courts of the United States.

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LAYING DOWN THE LAW: POST-RACIALISM AND THE DE-RACINATION PROJECT
Peter Halewood
This essay argues that Whiteness continues to flourish largely unexamined, operating as it does—for whites at least—largely out of sight.
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AFTERWORD FOR DEFINING RACE, A JOINT SYMPOSIUM OF THE ALBANY LAW REVIEW AND THE ALBANY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY©
Anthony Paul Farley
This joint symposium of ALR and Sci Tech has been a moment of clarity, of civic courage, of solidarity, of what was once called the unstoppable power of the people.
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FOUR PROBLEMS FACING MEANINGFUL STATE HEALTH CARE REFORM AND COVERAGE IN THE UNITED STATES
Arlene Akiwumi-Assani
This comment demonstrates the best approach to providing comprehensive health care coverage is on a federal level due to the obstacles facing state health care reform.
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UNDERSTANDING RACE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE MEANING OF RACE IN AMERICAN LAW AND THE IMPACT OF DNA TECHNOLOGY ON ITS MEANING IN THE FUTURE
William Q. Lowe
This note discusses the current lack of a settled definition of race in American Law, and the potential role DNA technology can play in remedying the problems associated with it.

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ENDANGERING THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT: NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF HOME BUILDERS V. DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE AND ITS THREAT TO THE SURVIVAL OF ENDANGERED SPECIES PROTECTION

Kristen M. Quaresimo

This Note examines the Court’s reasoning behind the National Association of Home Builders v. Defenders of Wildlife decision.

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RACE: A LEGAL, HISTORICAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND PERSONAL ISSUE

Vincent Martin Bonventre

Symposium Introduction

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COLORBLIND DIVERSITY: THE CHANGING SIGNIFICANCE OF “RACE” IN THE POST-BAKKE ERA

Bridgette Baldwin

This paper argues that there are real educational and far-reaching socialization benefits which can materialize if primary and secondary school children are exposed to racially diverse learning environments.

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LA MIGRA IN THE MIRROR: IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT, RACIAL PROFILING, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ONE MEXICAN CHASING AFTER ANOTHER
Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez
Symposium remarks
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DEFINING RACE: THE OBAMA PHENOMENON AND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
Janai S. Nelson
Symposium remarks
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CULTURAL INVERSION AND THE ONE-DROP RULE: AN ESSAY ON BIOLOGY, RACIAL CLASSIFICATION, AND THE RHETORIC OF RACIAL TRANSCENDENCE
Deborah W. Post
This essay considers what cultrual changes might have occurred that led led to the election of President Obama.
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COMPUTER GAMES, RACIAL PLEASURE, AND DISCURSIVE RACIAL SPACES
Neil Gotanda
This essay considers how race and racial stereotypes are depicted in video games.
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CULTIVATING RACE: HOW THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE PRESERVES RACE IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
Bekah Mandell
This Article demonstrates that the way in which race developed and continues to be deployed is closely tied to how the world feeds itself and distributes its harvest.
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ON RACE THEORY AND NORMS
Christian Sundquist
These remarks address the judicial acceptance of DNA random match estimates and how those estimates should be rejected as inadmissible.
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CRITICAL RACE FEMINIST BIOETHICS: TELLING STORIES IN LAW SCHOOL AND MEDICAL SCHOOL IN PURSUIT OF “CULTURAL COMPETENCY”
Deleso Alford Washington
This article examines how slavery and the concept of race intersect with gender.
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TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF RACE IN AMERICA
Hope Lewis
This article considers the examine the implications of “Black diversity” or multidimensionality within Blackness.

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