HOWARD LAW JOURNAL

'To Establish My Legitimate Name Inside the Consciousness of Strangers': Critical Race Praxis, Progressive Women-of-Colour Theorizing, and Human Rights

In this article, the author uses Eric Yamamoto's critical race praxis (critical race theory in practice) as a starting point. Yamamoto advocates the need to use practical experience within antiracism movements to constantly adapt one's theoretical approaches. In part one, the author provides a brief outline of human rights law, the United States human rights movement, and the global discourse of race.

Indivisible Rights and Intersectional Identities or, "What Do Women's Rights Have to Do With the Race Convention?"

This article argues that the human rights of women of colour are neither adequately protected nor fully recognized under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), as ratified by the United States. This result is largely attributable to both the conceptualization of race in terms that assume maleness represents a point of gender neutrality and the centrality of principles of formal equality to anti-discrimination law.