Law school compiles list of anti-racism books and resources written by faculty

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, “How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy” (Harvard University Press, 2015)

• Mehrsa Baradaran, “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap” (Belknap Press, 2017)

• Michele Goodwin, “Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts” (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

• Michele Goodwin, “Imagining, Writing, (Re)reading the Black Body” (co-editor) (UNISA Press, 2009)

• Michele Goodwin, “The Global Body Market: Altruism's Limits” (editor) (Cambridge University Press, 2013)

• Michele Goodwin, “Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood” (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

• Kaaryn Gustafson, “Working Hard, Staying Poor: Women and Children in the Wake of Welfare ‘Reform’” (Women of Color Center, 2000)

• Kaaryn Gustafson, “Cheating Welfare: Public Assistance and the Criminalization of Poverty” (New York University Press, 2012)

• Richard L. Hasen, “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy” (Yale University Press, 2020)

• Rachel Moran, “Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance”| (University of Chicago Press, 2001)

• Rachel Moran, “Race Law Stories” (co-editor) (Foundation Press, 2008)

• L. Song Richardson, “The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America” (co-editor) (Cambridge, 2013)

• Dean Richardson authored “Implicit Racial Bias and the Fourth Amendment,” featured in this collection