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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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In support of our bid for an alternative major prize for Derrick Bell and to honor his career and scholarship, this Essay summarizes some of his contributions to the understanding of racial replication, together with those of a few of his friends, including ourselves. A midget, you see, standing on top of the shoulders of a giant, can occasionally see even farther than the giant. Part I explains how culture replicates itself. Part II considers a set of homeo-mechanisms having to do with interest-convergence (one of Bell's signature themes) or the structure of legal thought, both of the conservative and the liberal variety. Part III explores differential racialization, including the part played by breakthrough legal decisions like Brown.

civil rights, Derrick Bell, James Watson, Francis Crick, Brown v. Board of Education, legal formalism, affirmative action, critical race theory, legal storytelling, social relations

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Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic examine the history of racial mistreatment of citizens of color in California. Beginning with incidents of racial brutality during the early Spanish colonial period and proceeding into the present, Delgado and Stefancic reveal that California has not been the egalitarian paradise many suppose. The authors write against a background of recent attacks on affirmative action in higher education which raise the prospect that the diversity rationale that universities had relied on to justify race-conscious admissions policies may no longer be constitutional. Recognizing this possibility, the authors offer remediation-making amends for past misbehavior--as an alternative basis for maintaining race-conscious programs in higher education. In particular, the authors argue that historical and recent racial discrimination in states such as California provides sufficient justification for adjusting admissions and hiring practices so that affected minority groups are placed in the status quo ante, that is, the position they would have been in had the discrimination not taken place.

racial discrimination, California history, civil rights, equal rights, college admissions, hiring practices, affirmative action, academia