Papers by Reginald Robinson
Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, 2018
I believe that we're all born good, uncorrupted and life itself does the corrupting. But, you kno... more I believe that we're all born good, uncorrupted and life itself does the corrupting. But, you know, someone like [these children]. .. [they] just [aren't] capable of something like this. 2 In the extreme, moral poverty is the poverty of growing up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults in abusive, violence-ridden, fatherless, Godless, and jobless settings. In sum, whatever their material circumstances, kids of whatever race, creed, or color are most likely to become criminally depraved when they are morally deprived.
Indiana law review, 2001
Number 4 BOOK REVIEW Poverty, the Underclass, and the Role of Race Consciousness: A New Age Criti... more Number 4 BOOK REVIEW Poverty, the Underclass, and the Role of Race Consciousness: A New Age Critique of Black Wealth/White Wealth* and AmericanApartheid** 19. Ruiz, supra note 2, at 26. 2001] A NEW AGE CRITIQUE 1381 depends on how a person believes and talks. 20 By acting, we confirm that our beliefs and our narrative must be true. Few of us act against our spoken or internalized beliefs. In effect, thinking, talking, and acting form overlapping concentric circles, all of which intensify what is actually or potentially real, and they determine how we might probably act. 21 We do not act against our thoughts, and we speak in a matter that reinforces what we already believe or know. 22 In sum, our beliefs (i.e., thinking) inform how we declare to others and reinforce in ourselves (i.e., talking) why we live as we do (i.e., acting). Therefore, in this essay, I will simply use the term "consciousness," and when I do, the reader should recall thinking, talking, and acting. In America, race and racism color our consciousness. 23 A race consciousness operates like thinking, talking, and acting. By race consciousness, I adopt Janet E. Helm's definition: "Race consciousness refers to the awareness that (socialization due to) racial-group membership can influence one's intrapsychic dynamics as well as interpersonal relationships. Thus, one's racial awareness may be subliminal and not readily admitted into consciousness or it may be conscious and not readily repressed." 24 By constructing our experiences through a race consciousness, we deliberately poison our personal worlds, not realizing that we also sicken, injure, and destroy ourselves. 25 By living through a "race-20. Id. at 4. Ruiz states: "The outside dream hooks our attention and teaches us what to believe, beginning with the language that we speak. Language is the code for understanding and communication between humans. Every letter, every word in each language is an agreement." Id. 21. Cf. Edelman & TONONI, supra note 1 5, at 20 1. Thinking and language play a crucial role in perception. [W]e must review the relationship between internalist and externalist views of the mental. The internalist view (a first-person view) is that as we interact with the world to establish our beliefs, their content is determined by particular kinds of brain activity that are reachable by introspection. The externalist view (a third-person view) is that mental life is a construct that is mainly dependent on the interpersonal or social exchanges that are based on language. According to this view, the whole system of language is essential to thought; it is the public aspect of language that gives thought its meaning and that is the basis of mental content. Id. 22. Seth, Personal Reality, supra note 4, at 19. Seth states: Each person experiences a unique reality, different from any other individual's. This reality springs outward from the inner landscape of thoughts, feelings, expectations and beliefs. If you believe that the inner self works against you rather than for you, then you hamper its functioningor rather, you force it to behave in a certain way because of your beliefs. Id.
Our language was created by, and limits us to, the reality created by our finite perceptions and ... more Our language was created by, and limits us to, the reality created by our finite perceptions and the consensus precepts of our society. A new language is needed to describe a new paradigm of reality... To find Truth we must look, not just outside of ourselves, but more concentratedly within.
The John Marshall law review, 2000
William Mary Law Review, 1995
(discussing the post-riot analysis of racial conflict in Los Angeles). 9. For a discussion of soc... more (discussing the post-riot analysis of racial conflict in Los Angeles). 9. For a discussion of social mythology, see PATRICIA J. WILLIAMS, THE ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS: A DIARY OF A LAW PROFESSOR 8-9 (1991) (discussing the myth of tortfeasors on a remote island simply waiting to be discovered by practitioners of Western jurisprudence). 10.
American University Law Review, 2004
for giving me feedback on my drafts. I would also like to thank my research assistants, Ms. Noree... more for giving me feedback on my drafts. I would also like to thank my research assistants, Ms. Noreen Muhib (class of 2001), Ms. Maria Blaeuer (class of 2004), Ms. Doreen Clay (class of 2006), and Ms. Marva Deskins (class of 2004) for their time, energy, and patience. Of course, the politics and errata belong exclusively to me.
Western New England Law Review, 1997
Colleague: "I really don't want to be different. If you're different you get in trouble and I'm n... more Colleague: "I really don't want to be different. If you're different you get in trouble and I'm not sticking my neck out." My response: "So what you're saying to me is that if I'm different and if I get in trouble, you're not going to go to bat for me." Colleague: "That's right, you're on your own." ' " , ,. I use the present tense in describing this general rule because the * Professor of Law, Loyola Law School. Professor Ikemoto teaches Property, Bioethics, Law & Medicine, Family Law, and Marital Property, and uses critical race theory and feminist critical theory in her scholarship and teaching.
Western New England Law Review, 1997
In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces... more In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces that race is real and immutable. The Multiracial Category Movement can shift our race consciousness away from traditional ways of thinking, talking, and using race. The Movement moves us beyond binary race thinking, and this new thinking shifts the extant race consciousness matrix. It
Colleague: "I really don't want to be different. If you're different you get in trouble and I'm n... more Colleague: "I really don't want to be different. If you're different you get in trouble and I'm not sticking my neck out." My response: "So what you're saying to me is that if I'm different and if I get in trouble, you're not going to go to bat for me." Colleague: "That's right, you're on your own." ' " , ,. I use the present tense in describing this general rule because the * Professor of Law, Loyola Law School. Professor Ikemoto teaches Property, Bioethics, Law & Medicine, Family Law, and Marital Property, and uses critical race theory and feminist critical theory in her scholarship and teaching.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
I would like to thank Dean Kurt Schmoke for his support and comments. I would also like to thank ... more I would like to thank Dean Kurt Schmoke for his support and comments. I would also like to thank Professor Anthony Farley for organizing the-Taking Oz Seriously‖ symposium, which was hosted wonderfully by the Albany Law School. This essay depends on and pays homage to the critical, analytical brilliance and depth psychology of the late Dr. Alice Miller. In the area of child maltreatment, Dr. Miller is the most powerful voice I have ever encountered. Her works not only altered my personal life for the better, but they also shifted my ways of thinking, reading, seeing, and expressing my research and writing agenda. Last but not least, I would like to thank Susan Bitensky (MSU), Laurence Nolan (Howard), and Anne Turner, for reading and commenting on this piece. Of course, the politics and errata belong to me.
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
her very close read but also for our four-day talk about the Essay and its personal and social im... more her very close read but also for our four-day talk about the Essay and its personal and social implications. 1 See generally SAPPHIRE, PUSH: A NOVEL (1996) [hereinafter SAPPHIRE]; PRECIOUS (Lionsgate 2009) (a story about how a young girl abused by her mother and father who overcomes adversity). 2 See, e.g., Johnson v. State, 1840 WL 1574, at *1 (Tenn. Dec. 1840) (Judge Turley states, "[t]he right of parents to chastise their refractory and disobedient children is so necessary to the government of families, to the good order of society, that no moralist or lawgiver has ever thought of interfering with its existence, or of calling upon them to account for the manner of its exercise, upon light or frivolous pretences."). 3 See, e.g., Hinkle v. State, 26 N.E. 777, 778 (Ind. 1891) (Chief Judge Olds states, "Parents bringing children into the world owe to them and to the community the duty of caring for and properly training them in infancy, and curbing the evil tendencies at a time and at an age when it can be done without resorting to excessive punishment and cruel and inhuman treatment[.]"). Even today, some advocates for ending corporal punishment have so deeply internalized the right of parents to use violence against their children as part of proper child-rearing practices that they mentally uncoupled the impact of corporal punishment from its damage not only to children but also the "
BC Third World LJ, 2000
The more we experience "nonsense," the more clearZ,' we are expeliencing the bOllndmies of our ow... more The more we experience "nonsense," the more clearZ,' we are expeliencing the bOllndmies of our own self-imposed cognitive structures. "Sonsense" is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have imposed on reality. There is 110 such thing as "nonsense" apart fro//l a judgmental intellect which calls it that. ... Nonsensc is nonsense onZ1' when we have not yet found that point of view frolll which it //lakes sCllse. 3
Moderator: Terrill Pollman Panelists:Sam Jones: The Invisible Man: The Neglect of Men and Boys in... more Moderator: Terrill Pollman Panelists:Sam Jones: The Invisible Man: The Neglect of Men and Boys in the Publicity and Prosecutions Regarding Human TraffickingDwight Fee: Democratizing Masculinity?: Towards a Relational Ethic Among MenReginald L. Robinson: Dark ...
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