Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Ethnic Briefs
Author: Special Reference Briefs
Author: Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1378
Book Description
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 1402
Book Description
New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Author: New York (State).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Knowledge for Justice
Author: David YooPublisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center Publications Asian American Studies Center Press Chicano Studies
ISBN: 9780935626704
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader is a joint publication of UCLA's four ethnic studies research centers (American Indian Studies, Asian American Studies, Chicana/o Studies, and African American Studies) and their administrative organization, the Institute of American Cultures. This book is premised on the assumption articulated by Johnnella Butler that ethnic studies is an essential and valuable course of study and follows an intersectional approach in organizing the articles. The book is divided into five sections-Legacies at Fifty, Formations and Ways of Being, Gender and Sexuality, Arts and Cultural Production, and Social Movements, Justice, and Politics-with each center contributing one or more articles or book chapters to each. In focusing on the intersectional intellectual, social, and political struggles that confront all of the groups represented in this anthology, the selections nonetheless articulate the specificity of each racial ethnic group's struggle, while simultaneously interrogating the ways in which such labels or categories are inadequate. The editors selected articles that not only address intersectional issues confronting various ethnic constituencies, but that also complicate the categories of representation undergirding such a project itself"--
Black-Latino Relations in U.S. National Politics
Author: Rodney E. HeroPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030455
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Social science research has frequently found conflict between Latinos and African Americans in urban politics and governance, as well as in the groups' attitudes toward one another. Rodney E. Hero and Robert R. Preuhs analyze whether conflict between these two groups is also found in national politics. Based on extensive evidence on the activities of minority advocacy group in national politics and the behavior of minority members of Congress, the authors find the relationship between the groups is characterized mainly by non-conflict and a considerable degree of independence. The question of why there appears to be little minority intergroup conflict at the national level of government is also addressed. This is the first systematic study of Black-Latino intergroup relations at the national level of United States politics.
Canadian Language Policies in Comparative Perspective
Author: Michael A. MorrisPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773537058
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
A systematic examination of language policies in Canada based on domestic and international comparisons.
The Bakke Case
Author: Howard BallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Affirmative action programs
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Examines the law and politics surrounding the Bakee case; a case claiming reverse discrimnation, considered by many as the most important civil rights decision since the end of segregation.
Courting Death
Author: Carol S. SteikerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674974832
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Unique among Western democracies in refusing to eradicate the death penalty, the United States has attempted instead to reform and rationalize state death penalty practices through federal constitutional law. Courting Death traces the unusual and distinctive history of top-down judicial regulation of capital punishment under the Constitution and its unanticipated consequences for our time. In the 1960s and 1970s, in the face of widespread abolition of the death penalty around the world, provisions for capital punishment that had long fallen under the purview of the states were challenged in federal courts. The U.S. Supreme Court intervened in two landmark decisions, first by constitutionally invalidating the death penalty in Furman v. Georgia (1972) on the grounds that it was capricious and discriminatory, followed four years later by restoring it in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Since then, by neither retaining capital punishment in unfettered form nor abolishing it outright, the Supreme Court has created a complex regulatory apparatus that has brought executions in many states to a halt, while also failing to address the problems that led the Court to intervene in the first place. While execution chambers remain active in several states, constitutional regulation has contributed to the death penalty’s new fragility. In the next decade or two, Carol Steiker and Jordan Steiker argue, the fate of the American death penalty is likely to be sealed by this failed judicial experiment. Courting Death illuminates both the promise and pitfalls of constitutional regulation of contentious social issues.