LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Red Power Movement, Indian Reorganization Act, Native Hawaiians
Document Summary
From the myth of formal equality to the poliics of social jusice race and the legal. Civil rights movements uilizes strategy based on claims of equal rights to mobilize individuals and advance interest in legal and legislaive areas. Conservaive legal movement alternaive concepion of equality that emphasizes neutrality and prohibits the consideraion of race/ethnicity in pubic policy. Most signiicant outcomes reframing of civil rights, from an insituional correcive designed to miigate historic and enduring wrongs. Conservaive acivists presently appear well posiioned to advance their interest in the federal courts and procure rulings that dismantle the wide range of policies and programs designed to assist america"s marginalized and historically embatled populaions (naive american, naive hawaiian) Naive communiies coninue to rank at or neat the botom of nearly every social, health, and economic indicator . Conservaive legal acivism emerged in response to gains made during the civil rights era: struggles compelled the naion at-large to confront and address enduring forms of discriminaion.
