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From:Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 12, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIntuitively, ratification of human rights treaties should support protection and promotion of human rights. But will it? This article considers whether ratifying human rights treaties is a useful strategy to advance the...
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From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 72, Issue 4)During the run-up to the 2008 Presidential election, the following essay by Tim Wise was widely circulated on the web and by email. At least half a dozen friends emailed it to me: The essay struck a chord with a...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 23, Issue 17)AFFIRMATIVE ACTION HAS ALMOST ALWAYS BEEN FRAMED AS A BLACK AND WHITE ISSUE. BUT AS Michigan voters this fall consider the latest Ward Connerly ballot measure, which would prohibit consideration of race and gender in...
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From:Health and Social Work (Vol. 31, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedProductive engagement is a potential pathway to health for older adults, but this relationship varies by race. This study examines the relationship of productive engagement to the health and observed health disparities...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 66, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION Over the past two decades, we have waged war on drugs. Yet it is not likely to be news to any reader of this Symposium on race and criminal justice that the primary casualties of that war have been...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedLand ownership was a volatile issue in the turn-of-the-century South. African Americans shunned tenancy on property owned by whites, preferring to have even smaller plots that provided independence. Their legal ability...
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From:Diverse Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 25, Issue 9)I was born in Edinburg, [Texas,] 11 miles away. When news [stories] like this item emerge, one has to wonder what other old ordinances and practices continue to exist on the books, affecting the way citizens still view...
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From:The Journal of African American History (Vol. 92, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEarly on the morning of 7 December 1955, Dr. George C. Simkins, Jr., an African American dentist from Greensboro, North Carolina, gathered with five of his friends for a regular Wednesday round of golf. Normally the...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study employs a resource mobilization model to explain racial differences in congregation-based political activism. The fewer resources (i.e., members, income, clergy leadership, civic ties) that black...
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From:Trial (Vol. 40, Issue 1)Forget floods, drought, or mad cow disease. What's really worrying the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) these days are the new lawsuits it's facing. The lawsuits--at press time, four--allege rampant...
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From:Trial (Vol. 40, Issue 6)A court may not require a plaintiff to meet pleading standards higher than those stated in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8, the Second Circuit has ruled, reinstating a racial discrimination claim. The federal rule...
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From:Duke Law Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedINTRODUCTION When enforcing the Constitution, courts frequently assess and even rank the importance of governmental interests. (1) The associated terminology--invidious, legitimate, important, substantial,...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 18, Issue 9)MACOMB, ILL. A fraternity suspended from Western Illinois University for running a racially offensive advertisement will be allowed back on campus this fall. An administrative review committee has concluded that...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 18, Issue 26)TAMPA, FLA. An 11th woman has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against the University of South Florida and its former women's basketball coach, claiming racist treatment in the program. Last month Iris...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 19, Issue 8)OXFORD, Miss. Forty years after James Meredith was escorted through an angry mob to become the first Black to enroll at the University of Mississippi, his son graduated as the top doctoral student in the business...
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From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 24, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedFormer Fox Philadelphia Ten O'Clock News anchor Rich Noonan files a complaint with the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission alleging that the station discriminated against him when it declined to renew his contract...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 17, Issue 22)College students are joining an effort by the Congressional Black Caucus to combat racial profiling. The United States Student Association is putting its support behind legislation from Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., that...
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From:The American Enterprise (Vol. 9, Issue 6)American race relations have improved since 1960 more than many journalists, public figures and politicians are willing to admit. Multiracial residents in Jasper, Texas, rallied together in support after a racist murder...
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From:Black Issues in Higher Education (Vol. 16, Issue 10)TUCSON, Ariz. -- The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a pattern of discrimination toward Black women persists in the University of Arizona's African American Studies program and the professor who...
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From:Social Justice (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIs "BLACK DEPRIVATION" CRIME? THIS QUESTION SURFACED REPEATEDLY IN THE author's mind as she observed how the legalities of court proceedings constructed socioeconomic marginalization to be consistent with "blackness"...