Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
Race-neutrality has long been touted in American law as central to promoting racial equality while guarding against race-based discrimination. 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.
Recommended Citation
Christian Sundquist,
White Vigilantism and the Racism of Race-Neutrality,
99
Denver Law Review
763
(2022).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_articles/558
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