Publications / Books
N*gga Theory
“N*gga Theory is a masterpiece. This book is a confirmation and a revelation.”
— Kate Chatfield, Senior Advisor at The Justice Collaborative
N*gga Theory interrogates conventional assumptions and frames a transformational new way of thinking about law, language, moral judgments, politics, and transgressive art—especially profane genres like gangsta rap—and exposes where racial bias lives in the administration of justice and everyday life.
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Negrophobia & Reasonable Racism
The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America
“Skillfully drawing on a wide range of referents from Greek mythology to Thomas Bayes, the father of statistics, Armour plumbs our racial psychology and in the process explores the racialized nature of our daily life and our legal system.”
— Norfolk Virginia Journal and Guide
Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.
Publications / Papers
“Law Language and Politics,” 22 University of Pennsylvania Law School Journal of Constitutional Law 1073 (2020).
“Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals,” 45 American Journal of Criminal Law 203 (2018).
“Nigga Theory: Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity in the Substantive Criminal Law,” 12 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 9 (Fall 2014).
“Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes,” in Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, editors, Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge, (Temple University Press, 2013).
“Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes,” in Sanford H. Kadish, Stephen J. Schulhofer, Carol S. Steiker, and Rachel E. Barkow, eds, Criminal Law and Its Processes: Cases and Materials, (Wolters Kluwer, 2012).
“Toward a Tort-Based Theory of Civil Rights, Civil Liberties, and Racial Justice,” 38 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 1467 (Spring 2005).
“Interpretive Construction, Systemic Consistency, and Criterial Norms in Tort Law,” 54 Vanderbilt Law Review 1157 (2001).
“Bring the Noise,” 40 Boston College Law Review 733 (May 1999).
“Color-Consciousness in the Courtroom,” 28 Southwestern University Law Review 281 (1999).
“Critical Race Feminism: Old Wine in a New Bottle or New Legal Genre?,” 7 Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies 431 (1998).
“Hype and Reality in Affirmative Action (Affirmative Action: Diversity of Opinions),” 68 University of Colorado Law Review 1173 (1997).
“Just Deserts: Narrative, Perspective, Choice, and Blame (Self-Defense and Relations of Domination: Moral and Legal Perspectives on Battered Women Who Kill),” 57 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 525 (1996).
“Stereotypes and Prejudice: Helping Legal Decision-makers Break the Prejudice Habit,” 83 California Law Review 733 (1995).
“Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes,” 46 Stanford Law Review 781 (1994).
Publications / Commentary
“Colin Kaepernick is Paying the NFL’s Black Tax,” Fortune (9/2017).
The Road to Hell is Paved with Coercive Benevolence: A Review of Down, Out & Under Arrest,” LARB Los Angeles Review of Books (2/2017).
“Black Lives Matter in Higher Learning,” LARB Los Angeles Review of Books (6/2016).
“The Politics of Becoming,” BLARB BLOG//Los Angeles Review of Books (1/2016).
“Straight Outta Compton: The Profound in the Profane,” LARB Los Angles Review of Books (10/2015).
