Racial Classification News Today

If you don't have the time or inclination to read my book, Classified: The Unknown Story of Racial Classification in America, attorney Paul Taylor provides a…

It's Black Friday, and the holiday season is now upon us! If you are looking for possible gifts for the loyal Volokh Conspiracy readers in your life, what…

Critics of the 1994 political settlement largely hail from the black middle class, even though it has been one the principal beneficiaries of South Africa’s social democracy.

The Arkansas Center for Research in Economics at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) will host a law professor for the beginning of its fall speaker series on Oct. 12.

[I'm reposting this because the linked article disappeared from SSRN's website soon after I posted it, until a copyright permission issue was resolved.] My…

My article, Students for Fair Admissions and the End of Racial Classification as We Know It, will be published in the new Cato Supreme Court Review on Monday.…

With just a few short words, lawmakers passed a bill that, once signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, makes Illinois the first state to add the racial classification of Middle Eastern or North African for state data collection purposes. State senators, representatives, Arab community activists and the mayor of Worth gathered Thursday in the south suburb to celebrate the change they say will improve ...

A phenomenon diametrically opposed to our Constitution.

A good article in City Journal: Welcome to the W...

The term "Arab" is meaningless if we don't stand behind it and chose "MENA" instead. Last month, members of the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation, House Bill 3768, which would include the term MENA (Middle East and North Africa) in the "Uniform Racial Classification Act" which requires state agencies to compile and report statistical data using racial classifications.Essentially, it defines who is recognized and who is not recognized. The MENA ca...