INTERRACIAL VIOLENCE AND RACIALIZED NARRATIVES: DISCOVERING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED

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  • Robin D. Barnes, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Resumo

Abstract: This article question the underlying assumptions and, therefore, potential effectiveness of Anthony Alfieri's recent essay, "Defending Racial Violence. Alfieri's proposal, in the form of an enforceable rule, would likely wind up on a collision course with principles underlying the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The article demonstrates the level of confusion that develops from rules that too easily or arbitrarily frustrate the legitimate interests of attorneys and clients in pursuing the best criminal defense. It also recommends providing carefully constructed, simulated exercises for classroom dialogue in ethics courses as a viable, alternative method for introducing a race - conscious ethic to young lawyers that does not run afoul of basic constitutional freedoms. The article disagrees with Alfieri's conclusion that "defense lawyers find scarce opportunity to contest the dominant narratives embedded in laws, institutional practices, and legal relations, even when those narratives inscribe negative racial stereotypes." The article concludes that the history and evolution of the entire system of criminal justice in this country dictates greater reliance upon mainstream prescriptions of neutrality rather than race-conscious rules and affirm that on questions concerning injury to black America's social identity, critics like Alfieri usually fail to consider just how broad the range of race-based assumptions are that ground representations of moral agency.

Keywords: Racialized narratives. Criminal justice system. Race relations in the United States.

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Biografia do Autor

Robin D. Barnes, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos

Robin D. Barnes, graduated from the University of Buffalo Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence. She received an LL.M. in Constitutional Theory from the University Of Wisconsin School Of Law. Barnes' casebook, The Nature and Scope of Individual Rights: Emerging Debates in Constitutional Law (2007), focuses upon individual rights in the areas of substantive due process, information privacy and political freedom. Barnes is a member of the International Association of Law Schools, European Society of International Law, Law & Society, and Association Internationale de Droit Constitutionnel. 

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29-10-2012

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Barnes, University of Connecticut-School of Law, Estados Unidos, R. D. (2012). INTERRACIAL VIOLENCE AND RACIALIZED NARRATIVES: DISCOVERING THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED. Espaço Jurídico Journal of Law [EJJL], 13(esp), 45–58. Recuperado de https://periodicos.unoesc.edu.br/espacojuridico/article/view/1993