Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
This Essay will focus on "racial profiling" not just in the way people think about the term - that is, with respect to stopping motorists for traffic violations based solely on their race, so-called "Driving While Mexican" or "Driving While Black" - but also in the context of "affirmative action - namely, using race as a factor in employment and educational decisions. More broadly, then, I want us to think of "racial profiling" as simply "the use of race to develop an understanding of an individual" which moves us slightly away from more pejorative notions of the phrase that have seeped into the national consciousness.
Recommended Citation
Victor C. Romero, Racial Profiling: Driving While Mexican and Affirmative Action, 6 Mich. J. Race & L. 195 (2001).
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Comments
Reprinted in Niemann, Ethnic Studies Reader (Kendall/Hunt).