Ariela J Gross
Biographic Data
| ID | 5202162 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ariela J Gross |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ariela J |
| FAMILY NAME | Gross |
| SIGNATURE | GROSS A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Archives of the Dispossessed
Almost two decades ago Saidiya Hartman asked how we can mourn an event that has not yet come to an end.1 That question, of how to approach the horror of enslavement through a present in which the past lives on, echoes in Stephanie E. Smallwood’s meditation, “The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved.” Smallwood reflects on her own journey in writing Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspor…
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that t…
The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery
Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antis…
American Stories: A History of the United States
American Stories: A History of the United States, Volume 1
Race, Law, and Comparative History
What are we comparing when we compare law and race across cultures? This was once an easier question to answer. If we take “races” to be real categories existing in the world, then we can compare “race relations” and “racial classifications” in different legal systems, and measure the impact of different legal systems on the salience of racial distinction and the level of racial hierarchy in a given society. That was the approach of the leading c…
Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Travel
Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana
History, Race, and Prediction: Comments on Harcourt's Against Prediction
This article reviews Bernard Harcourt's Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2007). It places the rise of actuarialism in criminal law in the United States in the context of trends in other areas of law, as well as in penology. It further suggests that this move toward actuarial thinking cannot in fact be separated from race; that prediction has always involved racial profiling, and that it is no accident th…
Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness
These two fascinating articles seek to fill an important lacuna in the burgeoning literature on the legal construction of whiteness. While LatCrit theorists in the legal academy have urged civil rights scholars and race critics to transcend the “black-white paradigm” of U.S. race studies, the majority of legal histories of whiteness have focused on two sets of cases: trials in the southeastern United States in which local courts tried to draw the…
Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
Professor Ariela J. Gross moves the study of slave law beyond the traditional notion that the civil law of slavery concerned slaves only as property and not as people. Gross has successfully trawled local as well as state court records to find still another dimension of slave law. She argues that slaves' character was often at issue in damage or breach of warranty claims concerning slaves. (Professor Gross has generously posted three of her datab…
Slave Laws in Virginia
Journal Article Slave Laws in Virginia Get access Schwarz Philip J., Slave Laws in Virginia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xvi, 253 pp. $40.00. Ariela J. Gross Ariela J. Gross University of Southern California Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 97–98, https://doi.org/10.2307/846026 Published: 01 January 1998
Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness
These two fascinating articles seek to fill an important lacuna in the burgeoning literature on the legal construction of whiteness. While LatCrit theorists in the legal academy have urged civil rights scholars and race critics to transcend the “black-white paradigm” of U.S. race studies, the majority of legal histories of whiteness have focused on two sets of cases: trials in the southeastern United States in which local courts tried to draw the…
The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery
Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antis…
Slave Laws in Virginia
Journal Article Slave Laws in Virginia Get access Schwarz Philip J., Slave Laws in Virginia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996. xvi, 253 pp. $40.00. Ariela J. Gross Ariela J. Gross University of Southern California Law School Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 42, Issue 1, January 1998, Pages 97–98, https://doi.org/10.2307/846026 Published: 01 January 1998
Double Character: Slavery and Mastery in the Antebellum Southern Courtroom
Professor Ariela J. Gross moves the study of slave law beyond the traditional notion that the civil law of slavery concerned slaves only as property and not as people. Gross has successfully trawled local as well as state court records to find still another dimension of slave law. She argues that slaves' character was often at issue in damage or breach of warranty claims concerning slaves. (Professor Gross has generously posted three of her datab…
Texas Mexicans and the Politics of Whiteness
These two fascinating articles seek to fill an important lacuna in the burgeoning literature on the legal construction of whiteness. While LatCrit theorists in the legal academy have urged civil rights scholars and race critics to transcend the “black-white paradigm” of U.S. race studies, the majority of legal histories of whiteness have focused on two sets of cases: trials in the southeastern United States in which local courts tried to draw the…
History, Race, and Prediction: Comments on Harcourt's Against Prediction
This article reviews Bernard Harcourt's Against Prediction: Profiling, Policing, and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (2007). It places the rise of actuarialism in criminal law in the United States in the context of trends in other areas of law, as well as in penology. It further suggests that this move toward actuarial thinking cannot in fact be separated from race; that prediction has always involved racial profiling, and that it is no accident th…
Legal Transplants: Slavery and the Civil Law in Louisiana
Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Freedom Suits and the Legal Culture of Travel
American Stories: A History of the United States, Volume 1
Race, Law, and Comparative History
What are we comparing when we compare law and race across cultures? This was once an easier question to answer. If we take “races” to be real categories existing in the world, then we can compare “race relations” and “racial classifications” in different legal systems, and measure the impact of different legal systems on the salience of racial distinction and the level of racial hierarchy in a given society. That was the approach of the leading c…
American Stories: A History of the United States
The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery
Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antis…
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make blackness synonymous with slavery. Looking closely at three slave societies - Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana - Alejandro de la Fuente and Ariela J. Gross demonstrate that t…
Archives of the Dispossessed
Almost two decades ago Saidiya Hartman asked how we can mourn an event that has not yet come to an end.1 That question, of how to approach the horror of enslavement through a present in which the past lives on, echoes in Stephanie E. Smallwood’s meditation, “The Politics of the Archive and History’s Accountability to the Enslaved.” Smallwood reflects on her own journey in writing Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspor…
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