The Death of Twentieth-Century Authority

Abstract The Reconstruction Era has garnered renewed attention from legal historians and scholars of the critical race tradition. Yet Reconstruction’s central institutional actor, the Freedmen’s Bureau—a federal agency created to aid emancipated...

Abstract The disestablishment of religion, also commonly referred to as the separation of church and state or separation of religion and government, has been a salutary constitutional principle in the United States. The diminishment of the...

Abstract In Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment, Devon W. Carbado illuminates how both the spectacular and quotidian forms of racialized terror, brutality, and surveillance—characteristic of enslavement—have shaped the...

Abstract Unreasonable makes a number of important contributions to discourses on race, crime and justice. First, a central claim of the book is that within policing, race discrimination is not an individual phenomenon or a problem of bad police...