Graduation Year
Spring 2013
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Politics and International Relations
Reader 1
Mark Golub
Reader 2
Rita Roberts
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© 2013 Carmen Beatriz B. Mooradian
Abstract
In this work , I analyze the emergence of a series of Supreme Court cases in the Rehnquist and Roberts era which frame race-conscious legislation as discriminatory against whites; and which are responded to by the conservative justices as though anticlassification and reverse-discrimination are indeed rights claims. I analyze the response of the conservative justices to such claims, and posit that response of the conservative Justices to such cases constitutes activism. Further, the emergence of these cases can be attributed to the entrenchment of a colorblind narrative that is by its very nature not grounded in social reality, or historical context; and which aims to elevate the privileges of whiteness into rights. The implications of these narratives and conservative judicial activism will have monumental consequences for minority populations of color in the country.
Recommended Citation
Mooradian, Carmen Beatriz B., "Modern Conservative Judicial Activism in the Supreme Court and the Entrenchment of Privilege as a Rights Claim" (2013). Scripps Senior Theses. 249.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/249
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
