CRIMINAL JUSTICE 228

Criminal Justice 228

Criminal Justice 228

The racial classification inquiry proceeds separately from any inquiry into the justifications for the policy. Under the formal terms of equal protection doctrine, showing that a challenged practice involves a state actor who distinguishes among individuals on the basis of race in the distribution of some benefit or harm should be sufficient to justify characterizing a practice as a racial classification. (Reid, et al. 2008)

It is unclear whether race-based casting disadvantages black actors as a group, much less harms African-Americans more generally. The invalidation of racial restrictions on auditions might have the same sort of ...