Title: Constructive Race: The Interaction of Personal, Social, and Legal Identity in an American Indian Experience with Title VII: Perkins v. Lake County Department of Utilities
Abstract:As with the joy of beauty, the ugliness of bias can be in the eye of the beholder.'The overriding goal of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19642 is to eradicate workplace discrimination based on t...As with the joy of beauty, the ugliness of bias can be in the eye of the beholder.'The overriding goal of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 19642 is to eradicate workplace discrimination based on the categories of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.These categories are called protected classes in the context of Title VII.Congress has codified its intent that courts shall broadly construe Title VII to achieve the Act's goal?In Perkins v. Lake County Department of Utilities, the court construed a segment of Title VII text: "It shall be an unlawful employment practice for an employer ... to discriminate against any individual ... because of such individual's race... ."Courts have developed elements for prima facie employment discrimination cases.'One of these elements is central to * Second-year student, University of Oklahoma College of Law.The author humbly dedicates this effort to the memory of Dave and Mildred Flacks,Read More