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This panel examines the shifting strategies through which white supremacy adapts, sustains itself, and reasserts dominance in law, politics, and culture. Panelists bring comparative and interdisciplinary insights to trace how whiteness is preserved across contexts—from claims of white victimhood in U.S. and South African equal protection jurisprudence, to the commodification of identity on social media, to the deployment of religious liberty as a tool of racial retrenchment. Together, the papers interrogate how whiteness functions both as property and as ideology, co-opting even the language of Critical Race Theory to shore up white grievance. By analyzing these dynamics, the panel sheds light on the collective costs of white supremacy and highlights how legal discourse, constitutional principles, and public narratives continue to reinscribe whiteness as normative.
•Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti, Researcher, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), UCLA Law LLM ‘19, White Victimhood, Equal Opportunity and Colour-Blindness: The Right to Equal Protection of the Law in Comparative Context
•Ra’Shya Ghee, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, White Supremacy as Property
•Brooke Girley, Assistant Professor of Law, Delaware Law School at Widener University, Sanctifying Whiteness: How The Legal Discourse Around Religious Liberty Reinscribes White Dominance
•Daniel Kiel, FedEx Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Development,
The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, How Critical Race Theory Became White
•Moderator: Alanna C. Kane, Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Legal Scholar Fellow, UCLA School of Law, UCLA Law JD ‘22
This panel examines the shifting strategies through which white supremacy adapts, sustains itself, and reasserts dominance in law, politics, and culture. Panelists bring comparative and interdisciplinary insights to trace how whiteness is preserved across contexts—from claims of white victimhood in U.S. and South African equal protection jurisprudence, to the commodification of identity on social media, to the deployment of religious liberty as a tool of racial retrenchment. Together, the papers interrogate how whiteness functions both as property and as ideology, co-opting even the language of Critical Race Theory to shore up white grievance. By analyzing these dynamics, the panel sheds light on the collective costs of white supremacy and highlights how legal discourse, constitutional principles, and public narratives continue to reinscribe whiteness as normative.
•Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti, Researcher, South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law (SAIFAC), UCLA Law LLM ‘19, White Victimhood, Equal Opportunity and Colour-Blindness: The Right to Equal Protection of the Law in Comparative Context
•Ra’Shya Ghee, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Law School, White Supremacy as Property
•Brooke Girley, Assistant Professor of Law, Delaware Law School at Widener University, Sanctifying Whiteness: How The Legal Discourse Around Religious Liberty Reinscribes White Dominance
•Daniel Kiel, FedEx Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Development,
The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, How Critical Race Theory Became White
•Moderator: Alanna C. Kane, Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Legal Scholar Fellow, UCLA School of Law, UCLA Law JD ‘22
