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American Bar Association 2019 Annual Meeting: The 19th Amendment Then and Now: Lessons for the 21st Century

August 10, 2019 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
Moderated by NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams, panelists engaged in a lively discussion that quickly took off from the historical achievement of the suffragists’ decades-long battle to achieve the largest expansion of democracy in American [...]
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Contracting Our Way to Inequality: Race, Reproductive Freedom and the Quest for the Perfect Child

May 15, 2019 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
The day eventually came when Jennifer Cramblett, like many other American women, lovingly looked at her partner and decided, it was time to “start a family. ”Cramblett, however, like many other prospective mothers, faced certain biological [...]
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What the Truth Looks Like: Race, Gender and the Politics of Credible Testimony

January 4, 2019 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
In this Hot Topic Panel, legal scholars will address the ways in which Justice Kavanaugh’s nomination, hearings, and confirmation impact a wide variety of legal domains, including sexual harassment and assault laws, workplace equality, policing, substantive [...]
Article

Is It A Man’s World?: Feminist Re-imaginings of the Right to Be Heard After The Charlottesville Tragedy

May 1, 2018 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
This forthcoming Essay draws upon the racial conflict spurred by the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, to explore the unspoken relationship between gender, protest, and violence in contemporary American society.
Review

Adventures in Co-Parenting: Charting A Course for Post-Marital Families

August 2, 2016 Camille Gear Rich Feminist Theory & Masculinity Studies
Review published at Jotwell. Last year, Obergefell v. Hodges seized center stage as many family law scholars began evaluating the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision recognizing gay Americans’ constitutional right to marry. Other scholars, however, remained more interested [...]
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Reclaiming the Welfare Queen: Feminist and Critical Race Theory Alternatives to Existing Anti-Povert Discourse

April 18, 2016 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
Last year marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Moynihan Report, a Senate report commissioned by Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1965 to investigate what he claimed was a social and cultural crisis compromising the family formation process [...]
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Who gets to define your race?

June 17, 2015 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
The controversy surrounding Rachel Dolezal's identity has stoked a cultural conversation: Is race something your ancestors dictate or whatever you feel in your soul? Who gets to police those boundaries? Is skin color still the defining [...]
Article

Post-Racial Hydraulics: The Hidden Dangers of the Universal Turn

March 5, 2015 Camille Gear Rich The Social Construction of Race and Diversity
In recent years, antidiscrimination scholars have focused on the productive possibilities of the “universal turn,” a strategy that calls on attorneys to convert particularist claims, like race discrimination claims, into broader universalist claims that secure basic [...]
Review

Marriage Markets and the Price of Masculinity

July 1, 2014 Camille Gear Rich Feminist Theory & Masculinity Studies
Obergefell v. Hodges, the recent Supreme Court decision recognizing gay Americans’ right to marry, demonstrates that the United States continues to promote marriage in both direct and subtle ways.

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