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General - Books

General - Articles

Community in Property: Lessons from Tiny Homes Villages
Lisa T. Alexander
104 Minn. L. Rev. 385 (2019)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Racism: A Major Source of Property and Wealth Inequality in America
Derrick Bell
34 Ind. L. Rev. 1261 (2001)
HeinOnline

Legal Levers for Health Equity in Housing: A Systems Approach
Scott C. Burris et al.
Temp. U. Legal Stud. Res. Paper Ser. No. 2019-36 (2019)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Middle-Class Black Suburbs and the State of Integration: A Post-Integrationist Vision for Metropolitan America
Sheryll D. Cashin
86 Cornell L. Rev. 729 (2001)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Whiteness as Property
Cheryl I. Harris
106 Harv. L. Rev. 1707 (1993)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Disability Related Law Affecting Real Property
J. Dee May
42 Advocate (Idaho St. B.) 10 (1999)
HeinOnline

New Property Disaggregated: A Model to Address Employment Discrimination
John A. Powell
24 U.S.F. L. Rev. 363 (1990)
Berkeley Law Repository            HeinOnline

Property and Ideology
Michael Robertson
8 Can. J. L. & Jurisprudence 275 (1995)
HeinOnline

Dear Landlord: Please Don't Put a Price on My Soul: Teaching Property Law Students That "Property Rights Serve Human Values"
Keith Sealing
5 N.Y. City L. Rev. 35-107 (2002)
SSRN            HeinOnline

The Untold Story of the Justice Gap: Integrating Poverty Law into the Law School Curriculum
Vanita Saleema Snow
37 Pace L. Rev. 642-99 (2017)
HeinOnline

Re-Reading Property
Joseph William Singer
26 New Eng. L. Rev. 711 (1992)
HeinOnline

Gender as a Core Value: Teaching Property
Joan C. Williams
36 Okla. City U. L. Rev. 551-53 (2011)
HeinOnline

Teaching About Inequality, Race, and Property
Florence Wagman Roisman
46 St. Louis L.J. 665 (2002)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Private Property, the Private Subject, and Women
Elizabeth Mayes
Article included in Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society, pg. 117-30 [see below]:

Nest Eggs and Stormy Weather: Law, Culture, and Black Women's Lack of Wealth
Regina Austin
65 U. Cin. L. Rev. 767 (1996)
HeinOnline

Article included in Feminism Confronts Homo Economicus: Gender, Law, and Society, pg. 131-46:

Property Rights in Whiteness: Their Legal Legacy, Their Economic Costs
Derrick Bell
33 Vill. L. Rev. 767 (1988)
Villanova Law Review Digital Repository            HeinOnline
Article included in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, pg. 71-79:

From Sandoval to Subprime: Excluding Latinos from Property Ownership and Property Casebooks
Steven W. Bender
Article included in Vulnerable Populations and Transformative Law Teaching, pg. 111-24:

Alien Land Laws - Books

Alien Land Laws - Articles

An Historical Analysis of Alien Land Law: Washington Territory and State 1853-1889
Mark Lazarus III
12 U. Puget Sound L. Rev. 197 (1989)
Seattle University Law Review            HeinOnline

Property Outliers: Non-Citizens, Property Rights and State Power
Allison Brownell Tirres
27 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 77 (2012)
SSRN            HeinOnline

No Right to Own?: The Early Twentieth-Century "Alien Land Laws" as a Prelude to Internment
Keith Aoki
40 B.C. L. Rev. 37 (1998)
HeinOnline

International Land Grabbing: How Iowa Anti-Corporate Farming and Alien Landowner Laws, as a Model, Can Decrease the Practice in Developing Countries
Megan Dooly
19 Drake J. Agric. L. 305 (2014)
HeinOnline

A Wavering Course: United States Supreme Court Treatment of State Laws Regarding Aliens in the Twentieth Century
Michael Cornelius Kelly
25 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 701 (Spring 2011)
HeinOnline

Alien Ownership of Land in Oklahoma
Jennifer Scott Moradi
79 Okla. B.J. 233 (2014)
HeinOnline

Hispano Title - Articles

Memory and Pluralism on a Property Law Frontier, the Contested Landscape of New Mexico's Costilla Valley
Gregory A. Hicks
47 Am. J. Legal Hist. 383-411 (2005)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Home Ownership - Books

Home Ownership - Articles

Homeownership and the American Dream
Laurie S. Gooman & Christopher Mayer
32 J. Econ. Persp. 31 (2018)
American Economic Association            JSTOR

From Reconstruction to Deconstruction: Undermining Black Landownership, Political Independence, and Community Through Partition Sales of Tenancies in Common
Thomas W. Mitchell
95 Nw. U. L. Rev. 505 (2001)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Reforming Property Law to Address Devastating Land Loss
Thomas W. Mitchell
66 Ala. L. Rev. 1 (2014)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Native American Title - Books

Native American Title - Articles

Emulsified Property
Jessica A. Shoemaker
43 Pepp. L. Rev. 945 (2016)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Nexis Uni            Westlaw Edge

Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education
Frances Lee Ansley
79 Cal. L. Rev. 1512 (1991)
HeinOnline

As "Every Schoolboy Knows": Gender, Land, and Native Title in the United States
Elizabeth Loeb
32 N.Y.U. Rev. L. & Soc. Change 253 (2008)
HeinOnline

Indian Title: Unraveling the Racial Context of Property Rights, or How to Stop Engaging in Conquest
Joseph William Singer
10 Alb. Gov't L. Rev. 1 (2017)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Albany Government Law Review

The Indian States of America: Parallel Universes & Overlapping Sovereignty
Joseph William Singer
38 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2014)
SSRN            HeinOnline            American Indian Law Review

Property and Coercion in Federal Indian Law: The Conflict Between Critical and Complacent Pragmatism
Joseph William Singer
63 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1821 (1990)
HeinOnline

Native Hawaiian Land Rights - Articles

The Kuleana Act Revisited: The Survival of Traditional Hawaiian Commoner Rights in Land
Maivan Clech Lam
64 Wash. L. Rev. 233 (1989)
HeinOnline

The Curious Case of Land Inheritance: Metaphor and Hawaiian Land Tenure
Justin Lee
13 Asian-Pac. L. Pol'y J. 252 (2011-2012)
HeinOnline

Ke Ala Loa - The Long Road: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty and the State of Hawai'i
Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie
47 Tulsa L. Rev. 621 (2012)
HeinOnline

Wai Through Kānāwai: Water for Hawai'i's Streams and Justice for Hawaiian Communities
D. Kapua'ala Sproat
95 Marq. L. Rev. 127 (2011-2012)
HeinOnline

Slavery

Race and the Core Curriculum in Legal Education
Frances Lee Ansley
79 Cal. L. Rev. 1512 (1991)
HeinOnline

Finding Sojourner's Truth: Race, Gender, and the Institution of Property
Cheryl I. Harris
18 Cardozo L. Rev. 309 (1996)
HeinOnline

On Being the Object of Property
Patricia J. Williams
14 Signs: J. Women in Culture & Soc'y 5 (1988)
JSTOR

Article included in Feminist Legal Theory: Readings in Law and Gender, pg. 165-80:

Enslaved People's Right to Property

Invention of a Slave
Brian L. Frye
68 Syracuse L. Rev. 181 (2018)
SSRN            HeinOnline            Syracuse Law Review

The Story of the American Inventor Denied a Patent Because He Was a Slave
Matt Novak
August 28, 2018
Gizmodo

Improving the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act
Rishi Batra
24 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 743 (2017)
HeinOnline

Slavery - Related Readings

Other Topics - Landlord-Tenant

How the Law Fails Tenants (And Not Just During a Pandemic)
Sarah Schindler & Kellen Zale
68 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 146 (2020)
SSRN            HeinOnline            UCLA Law Review

Other Topics - Polluted Property

Viewing the Cathedral from Behind the Color Line: Property Rules, Liability Rules and Environmental Racism
Rachel D. Godsil
53 Emory L.J. 1807 (2004)
SSRN            HeinOnline

Other Topics - Property Tax

"Our Taxes Are Too Damn High": Institutional Racism, Property Tax Assessment, and the Fair Housing Act
Bernadette Atuahene
112 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1501 (2018)
HeinOnline            Northwestern University Law Review

Predatory Cities
Bernadette Atuahene
108 Cal. L. Rev. 107 (2020)
HeinOnline            California Law Review

Other Topics - Public Lands

"Not Just For The Fun of It!": Governmental Restraints on Black Leisure, Social Inequality, and The Privatization of Public Space
Regina Austin
71 S. Cal. L. Rev. 667 (1998)
HeinOnline

United States v. Hatahley: A Legal Archaeology Case Study in Law and Racial Conflict
Debora Threedy
34 Am. Indian L. Rev. 1 (2008)
SSRN            HeinOnline