caa a22 4500 378872435 CHVBK 20180305123412.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20030529xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1539-8323.1038 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1539-8323.1038 Abrams Kathryn 1Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, krabrams@law.berkeley.edu "Groups" and the Advent of Critical Race Scholarship [Elektronische Daten] [Kathryn Abrams] Some scholarly commentators have described Owen Fiss's landmark article "Groups and the Equal Protection Clause" as having helped to produce the intellectual framework that has distinguished Critical Race Theory. This essay finds the issue to be more complex, and the critical thrust of Fiss's article more ambivalent. Fiss's approach boldly foresakes the jurisprudential comforts of neutrality, individualism and means/ends analysis for an explicit focuson the material and dignitary circumstances of African-Americans. Yet its account of racial disadvantage is surprisingly de-contextualized: it reflects neither the contemporaneous perspectives of its African-American subjects, nor more than a fleeting sense of the agonistic political dynamics that produced it. This reified rendering yields an account of Black disadvantage that is decoupled from a corresponding account of white supremacy. This essay explores this critical ambivalence and reflects upon its causes. It also considers the implications of Fiss's ambivalence for the Court's increasingly firm embrace of one "mediating principle" in the area of equal protection. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston The Origins and Fate of Antisubordination Theory nationallicence Issues in Legal Scholarship De Gruyter 2/1(2003-05-29) 2:1 2003 2 ils https://doi.org/10.2202/1539-8323.1038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1539-8323.1038 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Abrams Kathryn 1Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, krabrams@law.berkeley.edu NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Issues in Legal Scholarship De Gruyter 2/1(2003-05-29) 2:1 2003 2 ils CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter