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Volume 6, Issue 2

Fall 2010

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Letter from the Editors

A Fraudulent Sense of Belonging: The Case for Removing the 'False Claim to Citizenship' Bar for Noncitizen Voting

Anne Parsons

Insecure Communities: How Increased Localization of Immigration Enforcement under President Obama Through the Secure Communites Program Makes Us Less Safe, and May Violate the Constitution

Rachel Zoghlin

Caster Semenya and the Myth of a Level Playing Field

Erin Buzuvis

A Price Tag on Constitutional Rights: Georgia v. Weis and Indigent Right to Continued Counsel

Kathryn Bosse

Buying Into Prisons, and Selling Kids Short

Lizbet Simmons

Book Interview: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Coloblindness

Richael Faithful

Personal Essay: My Ordeal of Regaining Voting Rights in Virginia

Frank Anderson

Conference Highlight: Fifteenth Annual LatCrit Conference

Alex Bernshteyn

Commentary: Environmental Justice and the BP Oil Spill: Does Anyone Care about the "Small People" of Color?

Perry E. Wallace

Legislative Updates

Keyla Bade

Disclaimer: Any opinions appearing in The Modern American are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of American University Washington College of Law or The Modern American.


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