UofL Libraries: Race & the Law: Home

General Resources

Hein Online
Includes the "Brennan Center for Justice Publications at NYU School of Law" collection with materials focusing on racial justice in criminal law, and the "Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law" collection of legal materials on slavery in the U.S. & English-speaking world.

Race, Research & Policy Portal
This portal from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center summarizes & promotes research on diversity, racial equity & antiracist organizational change.
SSRN Discrimination, Law & Justice eJournal
Free & public access.

Century of Segregation: race, class, and disadvantage by Ware
Call Number: E184.A1 W24 2018
ISBN: 9781498564694
Publication Date: 2018
Explains how race & class intersect in ways that uniquely disadvantage racial minorities.
Confronting Racism: Integrating Mental Health Research into Legal Reform by Scheuermann, Carter
Call Number: BF76.45 .C37 2020
ISBN: 9781138553248
Publication Date: 2020
Proposes a comprehensive approach to confronting racism through a foundational framework as well as practical strategies to correct & reverse the course of the past & catalyze the stalled efforts of the present.
Justice Deferred: race and the Supreme Court by Burton, Derfner
Call Number: KF4755 .B87 2021
ISBN: 9780674975644
Publication Date: 2021
Reviews the U.S. Supreme Court's race-related jurisprudence.
Say It Loud! : on race, law, history, and culture by Kennedy
Call Number: KF4757 .K46 2021
ISBN: 9780593316047
Publication Date: 2021
This collection of essays explores key social justice issues of our time, from George Floyd to antiracism to inequality & the Supreme Court.