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SEEING RACISM IN REAL TIME - Who's the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law. By Linda C. McClain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (cloth); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780190877200.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2021

Jonathan Kahn*
Affiliation:
Professor of Law and Biology, Northeastern University School of Law

Abstract

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Book Review Symposium: Who's the Bigot?
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University

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References

1 Jonathan Kahn, Race on the Brain: What Implicit Bias Gets Wrong about the Struggle for Racial Justice, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017).

2 Kelly McCleary and Amir Vera, “A Video of Black Men Being Arrested at Starbucks. Three Very Different Reactions,” CNN, April 15, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/14/us/philadelphia-police-starbucks-arrests/index.html.

3 “Starbucks to Close All Stores Nationwide for Racial-Bias Education on May 29,” Starbucks (website), April 17, 2018, https://stories.starbucks.com/press/2018/starbucks-to-close-stores-nationwide-for-racial-bias-education-may-29/.

4 “Beyond May 29: Lessons from Starbucks Anti-bias Training—And What's Next,” Starbucks (website), July 2, 2018, https://stories.starbucks.com/stories/2018/beyond-may-29-lessons-from-starbucks-anti-bias-training-and-whats-next/.

5 Quoting Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644, 664 (2015).

6 John C. Calhoun, “Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, February, 1837,” in Speeches of John C. Calhoun (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1843), 222–26, at 224.

7 Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 25 (1883).

8 Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537, 551 (1896).

9 Kushner, David, Levittown: Two Families, One Tycoon, and the Fight for Civil Rights in America's Legendary Suburb (New York: Walker, 2009), 112Google Scholar.

10 Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529, 531 (2013).

11 Siegel, Reva B., “Foreword: Equality Divided,” Harvard Law Review 127, no. 1 (2013): 194Google Scholar, at 71.

12 Patricia J. Williams, “The Roberts Court's Civil Rights Denialism,” The Nation, July 2, 2013, http://www.thenation.com/article/175087/roberts-courts-civil-rights-denialism#.

13 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.