Anti-Racism Books and Various Resources Written by UCI Law Faculty Members
IRVINE, Calif. (July 30, 2020) — The University of California, Irvine School of Law (UCI Law) has identified and summarized books, research, creative activities, and many other resources authored by UCI Law faculty members who are experts on race, racial disparities, racial -- implicit and explicit -- biases, the criminalization of Black people, the criminalization of poverty, the racial wealth gap, and much more. The wealth of materials has been compiled in UCI Law's Anti-Blackness Racism Report, which highlights all that the law school has done and continues to do in documenting the Black experience within the law and the legal profession.
These resources analyze and interrogate the centuries of anti-Blackness and racism that exists in the United States. Simultaneously, these books can deepen people’s awareness and understanding of these important issues.
The list of books written UCI Law faculty members includes:
Mehrsa Baradaran, Professor of Law
- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (Belknap Press, 2017)
- How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2015).
Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law
- Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
- The Global Body Market: Altruism's Limits (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Imagining, Writing, (Re)reading the Black Body (co-editor) (UNISA Press, 2009)
- Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
Kaaryn Gustafson, Professor of Law
- Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty (New York University Press, 2012)
- Working Hard, Staying Poor: Women and Children in the Wake of Welfare "Reform" (Women of Color Center, 2000)
Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science
- Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy (Yale University Press, 2020)
Rachel Moran, Distinguished Professor of Law
- Race Law Stories (co-editor) (Foundation Press, 2008)
- Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
L. Song Richardson, Dean and Chancellor’s Professor of Law
- The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America (co-editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- (Dean Richardson authored Implicit Racial Bias and the Fourth Amendment, featured in this collection)
Please note: The full list of resources -- including book chapters and reviews, the school's strategic priorities, journal articles, papers, research, events and much more -- is available here on the UCI Law website.
Media: If you are interested in speaking to one of our faculty members on these topics please contact Mojgan Sherkat, Media Relations Specialist at UCI Law, at msherkat@law.uci.edu.
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