Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
This article is adapted from remarks presented at CWRU Law School's symposium marking the 20th anniversary of Whren v. United States. The article critiques Whren’s constitutional methodology and evident willful blindness to issues of social psychology, unconscious bias, and the lengthy American history of racialized conceptions of crime and criminalized conceptions of race. The article concludes by suggesting a possible path forward: reconceptualizing racially motivated pretextual police encounters as a badge or incident of slavery under the Thirteenth Amendment issue rather than as abstract Fourth or Fourteenth Amendment issues.
Recommended Citation
William M. Carter Jr.,
Whren's Flawed Assumptions Regarding Race, History, and Unconscious Bias,
66
Case Western Reserve Law Review
947
(2016).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_articles/71
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