Originalism Is Racism

Confronting, Dismantling, and Overcoming the Legacy of America's Founding Enslavers
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-0-520-42100-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 250 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Critical Race Theory

Originalism Is Racism interrogates America’s unhealthy obsession with its founding generation by challenging the ascendancy of originalism as the preferred method of constitutional interpretation—both among the justices of the Supreme Court and for significant portions of the American public. The book argues that interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the original intentions or understandings of the founding generation necessarily enshrines and exacerbates racial inequality. For one, originalism perpetuates white supremacy by rejecting the equal human dignity of Black people and other racialized groups and denying them the opportunity to participate in public life on equal terms. It also undermines the abolition of racial oppression by subjecting Black, Brown, and Indigenous people to increased risks of violence and death. In a word, originalism is racism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reyes, René

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ContentsIntroduction: An Unhealthy Obsession1. The Constitutional Text: An Undemocratic Charter of Racism and Unfreedom2. The Criminal Legal System: The New Jim Crow and Involuntary Servitude 2.03. Voting Rights and Democracy: The Perpetual Disenfranchisement of People of Color4. The First Amendment: Religion, Speech, and White Christian Supremacy5. The Second Amendment: Gun Rights and Racist Wrongs6. Abortion: Reproductive Injustice and Racial Inequality7. Affirmative Action: Erasing History and Preserving White PrivilegeConclusion: An Abolitionist Path ForwardAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

René Reyes is Professor of Law at Suffolk University. He teaches and writes in the areas of critical race theory, constitutional law, and abolition.