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Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1996

Publication Title

American University Law Review

Abstract

This Essay had its origins in a panel held during the Washington College of Law at American University's conference on Race, Law and Justice: The Rehnquist Court and the American Dilemma on September 21, 1995. The title of my panel, "Beyond Black and White: Race Conscious Policies and the 'Other Minorities,'" crafted by the conference organizers accomplishes subtly several things that I hope to continue in more explicit fashion in this Essay. The title challenges false binary racial logic from the position of groups who are neither Black nor white. It also foregrounds the history behind the development of this dominant model of binary reasoning about race and law in America.

Keywords

Biracial, Binary Reasoning, Race And Law

Publication Citation

Adrienne D. Davis, Identity Notes Part One: Playing in the Light, 45 Am. U. L. Rev. 695 (1996).

Comments

Reprinted in CRITICALWHITE STUDIES: LOOKING BEHIND THEMIRROR 231 (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, eds., 1997) (Temple University Press)

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