Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness?

Authors

Sharon Press, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Ellen E. Deason, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law

Abstract

This Article began with the murder of George Floyd by an officer of the Minneapolis Police Department on May 25, 2020, after a convenience store employee reported that Floyd used a counterfeit $20 bill to purchase cigarettes. Seventeen minutes after the police arrived, Floyd was unconscious, pinned beneath them. The events were recorded by bystanders and the public was confronted with visual evidence of what has been happening to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) especially Black men-for centuries. It was dramatic testimony that law enforcement is based on a system that is the product of systemic racism and embedded notions of white supremacy.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Dispute Resolution and Arbitration | Housing Law | Labor and Employment Law | Law | Law and Race | Property Law and Real Estate | Sexuality and the Law

Recommended Citation

Sharon Press & Ellen E. Deason, Mediation: Embedded Assumptions of Whiteness?, 22 Cardozo J. Conflict Resol. 453 (2021).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cjcr/vol22/iss3/3