Publication Date
8-2-2022
Abstract
Race-neutrality has long been touted in American law as central to promoting racial equality while guarding against race-based ddiscrimination. And yet the legal doctrine of race-neutrality has perversely operated to shield claims of racial discrimination from judicial review while protecting discriminators from liability and punishment. This Article critiques the doctrine of race-neutrality by examining the law’s response to white vigilantism in the much-publicized criminal trials of Kyle Rittenhouse and that of Ahmaud Arbery’s assailants.
First Page
763
Recommended Citation
Francisco Valdes, Steven W. Bender & Jennifer J. Hill, LatCrit at Twenty-Five and beyond - Organized Academic Activism and the Long Haul: Designing "Hybridized" Advocacy Projects for an Age of Global Disruption, Systemic Injustice, and Bottom-up Progress, 99 DENV. L. REV. 773 (2022).