Articles, notes, and symposia pieces published in CLR’s print volumes.
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“With All the Majesty of the Law”: Systemic Racism, Punitive Sentiment, and Equal Protection
United States criminal justice policies have played a central role in the subjugation of persons of color. Under slavery, criminal law explicitly provided a means to ensure White dominion over Blacks and require Black submission to White authority. During Reconstruction, anticrime policies served to maintain White supremacy and re-enslave Blacks, both through explicit…