{"id":18120,"date":"2023-05-01T02:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/can-a-law-or-policy-ever-be-neutral-in-its-treatment-of-different-identities-whether-or-not-can-it-still-be-necessary-and-or-appropriate\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T02:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T02:06:19","slug":"can-a-law-or-policy-ever-be-neutral-in-its-treatment-of-different-identities-whether-or-not-can-it-still-be-necessary-and-or-appropriate","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/can-a-law-or-policy-ever-be-neutral-in-its-treatment-of-different-identities-whether-or-not-can-it-still-be-necessary-and-or-appropriate\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a law or policy ever be neutral in its treatment of different identities? Whether or not, can it still be necessary and\/or appropriate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In answering this question, focus on ONE recent law or policy (one that has been in place and\/or proposed within the last ~10 years) that proclaims to be neutral. The law or policy can be local, state, or federal (nothing international\/beyond the country level). Be sure to argue:\u2022 Whether the law\/policy is neutral towards multiple different identities\u2022 Whether the law\/policy is necessary and\/or appropriate\u2022 How neutrality factors into its necessity and\/or appropriateness<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Use these sources to argue that laws\/policies can&#8217;t be neutral in relation to identity in politics&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Du Bois, W.E.B. The Souls of Black Folk. Dover Publications, 1994.<\/div>\n<div>Mills, Charles. The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press, 1997.<\/div>\n<div>Butler, Judith. \u201cBodies That Matter.\u201d Routledge, 1993.<\/div>\n<div>Harris, Cheryl I. \u201cWhiteness as Property.\u201d Harvard Law Review, 1993.<\/div>\n<div>Yamada, Mitsuye. \u201cInvisibility is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian AmericanWoman.\u201d The Politics of Multiculturalism: Race, Gender, and Citizenship, edited by GeorgeYancey, Westview Press, 2001.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Only two outside sources, use the sources I included from in class material&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In answering this question, focus on ONE recent law or policy (one that has been in place and\/or proposed within the last ~10 years) that proclaims to be neutral. The law or policy can be local, state, or federal (nothing international\/beyond the country level). Be sure to argue:\u2022 Whether the law\/policy is neutral towards multiple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[762],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/18120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=18120"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=18120"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=18120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}