Introduction to Law and Public Policy in African American History

What is the structural in structural racism? Founding Father John Jay insisted that "those who own the country ought to govern it," and many features of the U.S. constitutional system actively protect and incentivize racism, capital accumulation, and resource hoarding. This course gives particular attention to the two-party system; the U.S. Senate and the Electoral College; the U.S. tax code and welfare state; the reality and mythology of civil rights and anti-discrimination law; and the criminal legal system.