Originalism Is Racism: Confronting, Dismantling, and Overcoming the Legacy of America's Founding Enslavers

Originalism Is Racism interrogates America’s unhealthy obsession with its founding generation by challenging the ascendancy of originalism as the preferred method of constitutional interpretation—both among the justices of the Supreme Court and for significant portions of the American public. The book argues that interpreting the Constitution in accordance with the original intentions or understandings of the founding generation necessarily enshrines and exacerbates racial inequality. For o...