Sheryll D. Cashin
Professor of Law
B.E., Vanderbilt; M.A., Oxford; J.D., Harvard
Areas of Expertise:
Administrative Law, Civil Rights and Discrimination, Housing Law
Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Local Government Law, and Race and American Law among other subjects. She...
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Sheryll Cashin, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, teaches Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Local Government Law, and Race and American Law among other subjects. She writes about race relations, government and inequality in America. Her book, The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family (Public Affairs, 2008), covers the arc of U.S. race relations from slavery through the post-civil rights era. Her book, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream (Public Affairs, 2004), received critical praise in The New York Times Book Review and The Chicago Tribune among other publications. Cashin has published widely in academic journals and written commentaries for several periodicals, including the L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Education Week.
Professor Cashin worked in the Clinton White House as an advisor on urban and economic policy, particularly concerning community development in inner-city neighborhoods. She was law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Abner Mikva of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. As a Marshall Scholar, she went on to receive a masters in English Law with honors from Oxford University and a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School where she was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Cashin was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama, where her parents were political activists.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Sheryll D. Cashin, The Promise of Brown v. Board of Education and the End of Affirmative Action, in Affirmative Action: Contemporary Perspectives (James Beckman ed., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press forthcoming).
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Shall We Overcome? "Post-Racialism" and Inclusion in the 21st Century, 1 Ala. C.R. & C.L.L. Rev. 31-47 (2011). [HEIN] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, To Be Muslim or "Muslim-Looking" in America: A Comparative Exploration of Racial and Religious Prejudice in the 21st Century, 2 Duke F. L. & Soc. Change 125-139 (2010). [HEIN]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Keynote Address: Justice Thurgood Marshall: A Race Man's Race-Transcending Jurisprudence, 52 How. L.J. 507-522 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Race, Class, and Real Estate, in Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis 59-66 (M. Paloma Pavel ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2009). [BOOK]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Sheryll D. Cashin, The Promise of Brown v. Board of Education and the End of Affirmative Action, in Affirmative Action: Contemporary Perspectives (James Beckman ed., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press forthcoming).
Books
- Sheryll D. Cashin, The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African American Family (New York: Public Affairs 2008). [BOOK]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream (New York: Public Affairs 2005). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Shall We Overcome? "Post-Racialism" and Inclusion in the 21st Century, 1 Ala. C.R. & C.L.L. Rev. 31-47 (2011). [HEIN] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, To Be Muslim or "Muslim-Looking" in America: A Comparative Exploration of Racial and Religious Prejudice in the 21st Century, 2 Duke F. L. & Soc. Change 125-139 (2010). [HEIN]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Keynote Address: Justice Thurgood Marshall: A Race Man's Race-Transcending Jurisprudence, 52 How. L.J. 507-522 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Democracy, Race, and Multiculturalism in the Twenty-First Century: Will the Voting Rights Act Ever be Obsolete?, 22 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 71-105 (2006). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Coalition Politics, 49 St. Louis U. L.J. 1029-1046 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Shall We Overcome? Transcending Race, Class, and Ideology Through Interest Convergence, 79 St. John's L. Rev. 253-291 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, American Public Schools Fifty Years After Brown: A Separate and Unequal Reality, 47 How. L.J. 341-360 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Drifting Apart: How Wealth and Race Segregation are Reshaping the American Dream, 47 Vill. L. Rev. 595-604 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Civil Rights in the New Decade: The Geography of Opportunity, 31 Cumb. L. Rev. 467-479 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Cathlin Baker, John D. Donahue, Floyd Flake, Eugene W. Harper, Jr., Kerry Korpi & Jerry L. Mashaw, Living with Privatization: At Work and in the Community, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1397-1433 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Middle-Class Black Suburbs and the State of Integration: A Post-Integrationist Vision for Metropolitan America, 86 Cornell L. Rev. 729-776 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Privatized Communities and the Secession of the Successful: Democracy and Fairness Beyond the Gate, 28 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1675-1692 (2001). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Building Community in the Twenty-First Century: A Post-Integrationist Vision for the American Metropolis, 98 Mich. L. Rev. 1704-1724 (2000) (reviewing Gerald Frug, City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls (1999)). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Localism, Self-Interest, and the Tyranny of the Favored Quarter: Addressing the Barriers to New Regionalism, 88 Geo. L.J. 1985-2048 (2000). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Public Subsidies and the Role of Suburbanization in Urban Economic Development: A Reply to Timothy Bates, 14 Econ. Dev. Q. 243-249 (2000). [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Race, Class, and Real Estate, in Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis 59-66 (M. Paloma Pavel ed., Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2009). [BOOK]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Hadnott v. Amos: Unleashing the Second Reconstruction, in Civil Rights Stories 61-84 (Myriam E. Gilles & Risa L. Goluboff eds., New York: Foundation Press 2008). [BOOK]
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Katrina: The American Dilemma Redux, in After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina 29-37 (David Dante Troutt ed., New York: New Press 2006).
- Sheryll D. Cashin, Foreword: Where We Live: Race, Class, and the American Dream, in Keeping the Promise: Preserving and Enhancing Housing Mobility in the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program Conference 3-6 (Philip Tegeler, Mary Cunningham & Margery Austin Turner eds., Wash., D.C.: Poverty & Race Research Action Council 2005).
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
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