"If You Is White, You's Alright....": Stories about Colorism in America

Authors

Kimberly Jade Norwood, Washington University in St. Louis School of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2015

Publication Title

Washington University Global Studies Law Review

Abstract

This Article examines the inefficiencies of Missouri municipal courts that came into sharp focus following the killing of Michael Brown by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. Norwood details and expands on her lone dissent in the Final Report of the Municipal Division Work Group—a group created by the Missouri Supreme Court to address the alleged abuses of black and poor residents in Missouri. Norwood argues for consolidating failing municipal courts to create larger, more functional, and just courts.

Keywords

Missouri Municipal Courts, Michael Brown, Ferguson, Racial Injustice, Court Reform, Judicial Inequality, Municipal Division Work Group, Court Consolidation

Publication Citation

Kimberly Jade Norwood, “If You Is White, You’s Alright....”: Stories about Colorism in America, 14 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 585 (2015)

Repository Citation

Norwood, Kimberly Jade, ""If You Is White, You's Alright....": Stories about Colorism in America" (2015). Scholarship@WashULaw. 594.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_scholarship/594