(E)racing the Fourth Amendment.(minority encounters with police)

From: Michigan Law Review | Date: March 1, 2002| Author: Carbado, Devon W. | Copyright information

PROLOGUE: NOTES OF A NATURALIZED SON (OR HOW I BECAME A BLACK AMERICAN) 

   I remember the very day I became colored. 
 
      Zora Neale Hurston (1) 
 
   If there were no black people here in this country, it would have been 
   Balkanized.... But in becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in 
   common with that other immigrant is contempt for me--it's nothing else but 
   color.... So in that sense, becoming an American is based on an attitude: 
   an exclusion of ...

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