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2007 Wis. L. Rev. 283 (2007)
Taking the Garbage out in Tulia, Texas: The Taboo on Black-White Romance and Racial Profiling in the War on Drugs

handle is hein.journals/wlr2007 and id is 295 raw text is: TAKING THE GARBAGE OUT IN TULIA, TEXAS: THE TABOO ON BLACK-WHITE ROMANCE AND RACIAL PROFILING IN THE WAR ON DRUGS KEVIN R. JOHNSON* I. Introduction ................................................................................ 284 II. The Tulia Sting, or Round Up the Usual Suspects ............... 286 A . T he Sting ............................................................................. 288 B. Vindication of the Accused ................................................. 291 III. The Continuing Evil of Race-Mixing: Tulia as a Case Study .... 294 A. The Legal and Social Prohibition of Black-White R elationships ....................................................................... 295 1. The Persistence of Social Separation ............................ 297 2. The Lingering Stigma of Blackness .............................. 299 3. Evidence of the Enduring Taboo ................................... 299 B. The Taboo at W ork in Tulia ................................................ 303 IV. Tulia as Race-Based Law Enforcement American-Style ........... 305 A . The W ar on D rugs. .......................................................... 305 1. Profiles and More Profiles: Racial Profiling in the W ar on D rugs ................................................................ 308 2. The Law's Role in the War on Drugs ............................ 311 B. Tulia as Part and Parcel of the War on Drugs .............. 313 1. A Model for Restorative Justice? .................................. 313 2. The Problem with the Tulia Strategy .......................316 V . C onclusion .................................................................................. 3 18 * Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Law, University of California at Davis, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies; A.B., University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Harvard University. Rick Banks, Jennifer M. Chac6n, George A. Martfnez, Adele Morrison, Camille Nelson, Reggie Oh, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Carla Pratt, and Catherine Smith offered helpful comments on a draft of this Article. Thanks to the other symposium participants for their inspiration. Special thanks to Angela Onwuachi-Willig and Camille Nelson for working long and hard to organize this symposium. The Mabie-Apallas Chair, the UC-Davis School of Law, and Dean Rex Perschbacher provided generous financial support for this research. Law student Stella Schmidel provided excellent research and editorial assistance. Finally, I am indebted to my colleague Jennifer M. Chac6n for bringing the Tulia case to my attention.

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