BOOK Wendy Leo Moore wrote, Reproducing Racism: White Space, Elite Law Schools, and Racial Inequality. The Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. published the book in 2008. The book has 6 chapters and there are 200 pages, the book ends on page 183; the rest of the pages in the book are the Bibliography and Index. At the end of each chapter Wendy Moore puts her notes where she found all of her information.
AUTHOR
Wendy Leo Moore is currently an associate professor of Sociology, at Texas A&M University. She has a Ph.D. from the university of Minnesota. She is a sociologist and lawyer, she has researched topics on; race and ethnicity, critical race theory, sociology of law, race/class/gender, and ethnographic methods, according to her bio …show more content…
Dr. Moore talks about how most of the pictures in the buildings of are elderly while males. There are few pictures of African Americans, and some depict an image that can lead one to thinking that white males belong in the court room, while everyone else can go picket their believes out side. There were several pictures where African Americans were fighting for their civil rights by standing out side of court rooms, this could give an African American student the feeling that they do not belong there. She later compares Midstate to Presidential Law School, which has a more diverse …show more content…
Moore observed several classes at Midstate and gave a brief description of the class. A few of the professor did not touch the topic of race or would jokingly brush the topic away, one statement a professor made, “ If I’m a black engineer, do I want to move my family to Alabama when they’re feeding their police dogs little black kids?”. (Page 57) This statement jokes about real violence abuse that took place in Alabama. This is a prime example of race is just pushed to the side, and is not taken seriously. Dr. Moore explains that institutions like Midstate want their students to conform into one way of thinking and if you are different then the rest it has no significance.
Chapter 3 In chapter 3 she takes the book down a different path. She examines the court cases that have made America and how it views race. Before she goes into the cases she gives a brief history lesson on slavery and issues like the one drop rule, if a person had one drop of “negro” blood then they were considered legally black (page 69). She starts her look back into court cases with; Dred Scott and Plessy: African American Subjugation in Two Legal Eras, a extremity famous case that paved the road for other cases. She gives a summary of the case and highlights why this case is import for example this case allowed people to give their opinion saying they were against the oppression of African Americans, some say that this case put the nation in a civil war.
AUTHOR
Wendy Leo Moore is currently an associate professor of Sociology, at Texas A&M University. She has a Ph.D. from the university of Minnesota. She is a sociologist and lawyer, she has researched topics on; race and ethnicity, critical race theory, sociology of law, race/class/gender, and ethnographic methods, according to her bio …show more content…
Dr. Moore talks about how most of the pictures in the buildings of are elderly while males. There are few pictures of African Americans, and some depict an image that can lead one to thinking that white males belong in the court room, while everyone else can go picket their believes out side. There were several pictures where African Americans were fighting for their civil rights by standing out side of court rooms, this could give an African American student the feeling that they do not belong there. She later compares Midstate to Presidential Law School, which has a more diverse …show more content…
Moore observed several classes at Midstate and gave a brief description of the class. A few of the professor did not touch the topic of race or would jokingly brush the topic away, one statement a professor made, “ If I’m a black engineer, do I want to move my family to Alabama when they’re feeding their police dogs little black kids?”. (Page 57) This statement jokes about real violence abuse that took place in Alabama. This is a prime example of race is just pushed to the side, and is not taken seriously. Dr. Moore explains that institutions like Midstate want their students to conform into one way of thinking and if you are different then the rest it has no significance.
Chapter 3 In chapter 3 she takes the book down a different path. She examines the court cases that have made America and how it views race. Before she goes into the cases she gives a brief history lesson on slavery and issues like the one drop rule, if a person had one drop of “negro” blood then they were considered legally black (page 69). She starts her look back into court cases with; Dred Scott and Plessy: African American Subjugation in Two Legal Eras, a extremity famous case that paved the road for other cases. She gives a summary of the case and highlights why this case is import for example this case allowed people to give their opinion saying they were against the oppression of African Americans, some say that this case put the nation in a civil war.