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Juan Perea, Richard Delgado, Angela Harris, Jean Stefancic, and Stephanie Wildman with West publishing are pleased to announce the June publication of the Second Edition of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America.

This best-selling casebook presents critical perspectives on race and racism. It updates the first edition with new material on the treatment of Muslims and Arabs in post-9/11 America. It also provides expanded treatment of Japanese-American internment, Jewish Americans, and native Hawaiians in the U.S.

The Second Edition includes new cases such as Grutter and Virginia v. Black, current statistics, and enhanced coverage of voting. It also features rich historical treatment of major racial groups in the United States: African Americans, Indians, Latinos/Latinas, Asian Americans, and Whites. The text contains chapters exploring implications of enslavement, conquest, colonization, and immigration, as well as on equality, education, freedom of expression, family and sexuality, stereotyping, and crime.

The Introduction and Table of Contents are available to download.

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Through a case study and lawyer narrative describing the role of the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) in a housing development struggle in West Oakland, California, this Article explores the intersection of the practice of community lawyering with the practice of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is a practice that cultivates the conscious interplay between the interior world of self and the outer world of relationships. A small literature on law and mindfulness has emerged, in which mindfulness is prescribed both as a palliative for an ailing profession and a model for increased attentiveness to the needs of clients. This Article suggests that mindfulness is also relevant to the practice of advocating for community economic justice.

Part I describes the implications for Oakland of the shift in the U.S. political economy to a post-industrial, neoliberal regime. Part II describes EBCLC's Community Economic Justice practice. Part III provides a case study of a struggle in which private developers, local residents and city officials squared off over the nature and implications of the largest market-rate housing development so far in the history of West Oakland. Through a first-person narrative, lead attorney Margaretta Lin reflects on the lessons of this struggle through the lens of mindfulness.

Part IV offers a tentative theory on the practice of mindful lawyering. We suggest that mindfulness can be more than a self-help practice for the legal profession. Mindfulness can help community lawyers balance a central tension in their work: how best to advocate on behalf of subordinated and disenfranchised communities within the existing political economy while holding fast to a vision of civic life that is more diverse, transparent and participatory.

lawyering, social justice, mindfulness, clinical, community economic development