Lacan & Voting Rights

Abstract

Symposium: Cultural Studies & the Law: Beyond Legal Realism? This article is a symptomatic reading of Shaw v. Reno. This reading is informed by Lacanian psychoanalysis and the work of James Baldwin.

Keywords: James Baldwin, Jurisprudence, Lynching, Jacques Lacan, James Meredith, Sandra Day O'Connor, Race, Racism, Shaw v. Reno, Voting Rights