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Author: Jade Lee Publisher: ISBN: 9781946917027 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Since George Zimmerman's acquittal in shooting Trayvon Martin (2013) and Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, MO (2014), America has not been the same. Seemingly overnight, racial tensions we have not seen to this extent, since the Civil Rights Movement, have erupted. Only a few years prior to the Trayvon Martin incident, the first African American president graced the word's highest political office. Many believe we were embarking a post-racial society. Some continue to believe that media has exaggerated racial biases. Regardless of views, there is a needed answer to the explosion of tension we are facing on social media, in our school systems, and on our streets.The answer could be more simple than we believe but may take a deeper examination of our racial past if we are ever able to come to true solutions. At a time we need answers more than ever, could we be asking the wrong questions? Do we need reconciliation or healing? The problem with reconciling before doing the difficult work of healing, compassion and empathy is that we will keep creating bridges over the root of the problem. But together we can dig under the bridges that have sustained us to uproot past pains and find solutions.
Author: Jade Lee Publisher: ISBN: 9781946917027 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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Since George Zimmerman's acquittal in shooting Trayvon Martin (2013) and Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, MO (2014), America has not been the same. Seemingly overnight, racial tensions we have not seen to this extent, since the Civil Rights Movement, have erupted. Only a few years prior to the Trayvon Martin incident, the first African American president graced the word's highest political office. Many believe we were embarking a post-racial society. Some continue to believe that media has exaggerated racial biases. Regardless of views, there is a needed answer to the explosion of tension we are facing on social media, in our school systems, and on our streets.The answer could be more simple than we believe but may take a deeper examination of our racial past if we are ever able to come to true solutions. At a time we need answers more than ever, could we be asking the wrong questions? Do we need reconciliation or healing? The problem with reconciling before doing the difficult work of healing, compassion and empathy is that we will keep creating bridges over the root of the problem. But together we can dig under the bridges that have sustained us to uproot past pains and find solutions.
Author: Obie Clayton Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation ISBN: 0871541572 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 358
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A study examining research and development projects and capital improvements, and changes in productivity and profitability in selected American manufacturing industries and companies from 1980 to 1989. Special attention is given to the effects of substantial investment increases on productivity and profitability changes. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Publisher: New Press, The ISBN: 1620971658 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 194
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On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an unarmed African American high school senior, was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri. For months afterward, protestors took to the streets demanding justice, testifying to the racist and exploitative police department and court system, and connecting the shooting of Brown with the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, and other young black men at the hands of police across the country. In the wake of these protests, the Department of Justice launched a six-month investigation, resulting in a report that Colorlines characterizes as "so caustic it reads like an Onion article" and laying bare what the Huffington Post calls "a totalizing police regime beyond any of Kafka's ghastliest nightmares." Among the report's findings are that the Ferguson Police Department "Engages in a Pattern of Unconstitutional Stops and Arrests in Violation of the Fourth Amendment," "Detain[s] People Without Reasonable Suspicion and Arrest[s] People Without Probable Cause," "Engages in a Pattern of First Amendment Violations," "Engages in a Pattern of Excessive Force," and "Erode[s] Community Trust, Especially Among Ferguson's African-American Residents." Contextualized here in a substantial introduction by renowned legal scholar and former NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund president Theodore M. Shaw, The Ferguson Report is a sad, sobering, and important document, providing a snapshot of American law enforcement at the start of the twenty-first century, with resonance far beyond one small town in Missouri.
Author: Mark Goodale Publisher: Stanford University Press ISBN: 0804769885 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 374
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Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of research, it offers an account of local encounters with law and liberalism. Mark Goodale presents, through a series of finely grained readings, a window into the lives of people in rural areas of Latin America who are playing a crucial role in the emergence of postcolonial states. The book contends that the contemporary Bolivian experience is best understood by examining historical patterns of intention as they emerge from everyday practices. It provides a compelling case study of the appropriation and reconstruction of transnational law at the local level, and gives key insights into this important South American country.
Author: Marsha E. Barrett Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501776258 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma reveals the fascinating and influential political career of the four-time New York State governor and US vice president. Marsha E. Barrett's portrayal of this multi-faceted political player focuses on the eclipse of moderate Republicanism and the betrayal of deeply held principles for political power. Although never able to win his party's presidential nomination, Rockefeller's tenure as governor was notable for typically liberal policies: infrastructure projects, expanding the state's university system, and investing in local services and the social safety net. As the Civil Rights movement intensified in the early 1960s, Rockefeller envisioned a Republican Party recommitted to its Lincolnian heritage as a defender of Black equality. But the party's extreme right wing, encouraged by its successful outreach to segregationists before and after the nomination of Barry Goldwater, pushed the party to the right. With his national political ambitions fading by the late 1960s, Rockefeller began to tack right himself on social and racial issues, refusing to endorse efforts to address police brutality, accusing, without proof, Black welfare mothers of cheating the system, or introducing harsh drug laws that disproportionately incarcerated people of color. These betrayals of his own ideals did little to win him the support of the party faithful, and his vice presidency ended in humiliation, rather than the validation of moderate ideals. An in-depth, insightful, and timely political history, Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma details how the standard-bearer of moderate Republicanism lost the battle for the soul of the Party of Lincoln, leading to mainlining of white-grievance populism for the post-civil rights era.
Author: Diana Furchtgott-Roth Publisher: American Enterprise Institute ISBN: 9780844741291 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 254
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A controversial and eye-opening look at women's equality dispels the myth that women need government programs to protect them and shows why feminists want to keep this myth alive.
Author: Peter Dreier Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 452
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Analyzes the problematic trends facing America's cities and older suburbs and challenges us to put America's urban crisis back on the national agenda.
Author: Jennifer L. Hochschild Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300031140 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 284
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A provocative examination of school desegregation in America and how it does-and does not-succeed. In this powerful tract on school desegregation, Jennifer Hochschild formulates the most searching challenge to the theory of incrementalism that I have come across in recent years. -David Braybrooke A comprehensive synthesis of what is known about the processes of school desegregation and a powerful policy-oriented argument on a subject whose crucial significance Americans have been unable to wish away. -Paul E. Peterson, Brookings Institution A well-written, insightful survey and analysis of the pattern of school desegregation in American society since the Supreme Court's Brown decisions and a first-rate analysis of the implementation of public policy in the US, with perceptive remarks on incrementalism as a method of change.-Choice The New American Dilemma is policy analysis as it should be done, thorough in its consideration of evidence and bold in its examination of fundamental issues of political practice and social theory.-Clarence N.Stone, Ethics The New American Dilemma challenges almost all positions cherished by liberals and leftists, blacks and whites, including gradualism, democratic participation and ethnic solidarity. Because of that alone, The New American Dilemma is invaluable. -Richard H. King, Journal of American Studies A solid contribution to the literature on desegregation...This thought-provoking book provides an excellent perspective on the thirty years of desegregation since Brown. -Mary Jo Newborn, Michigan Law Review
Author: Jennifer E Cobbina Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479862320 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 242
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Understanding the explosive protests over police killings and the legacy of racism Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest over the unjustified homicides of unarmed black males at the hands of police officers. These local tragedies—and the protests surrounding them—assumed national significance, igniting fierce debate about the fairness and efficacy of the American criminal justice system. Yet, outside the gaze of mainstream attention, how do local residents and protestors in Ferguson and Baltimore understand their own experiences with race, place, and policing? In Hands Up, Don’t Shoot, Jennifer Cobbina draws on in-depth interviews with nearly two hundred residents of Ferguson and Baltimore, conducted within two months of the deaths of Brown and Gray. She examines how protestors in both cities understood their experiences with the police, how those experiences influenced their perceptions of policing, what galvanized Black Lives Matter as a social movement, and how policing tactics during demonstrations influenced subsequent mobilization decisions among protesters. Ultimately, she humanizes people’s deep and abiding anger, underscoring how a movement emerged to denounce both racial biases by police and the broader economic and social system that has stacked the deck against young black civilians. Hands Up, Don’t Shoot is a remarkably current, on-the-ground assessment of the powerful, protestor-driven movement around race, justice, and policing in America.
Author: Dan Okada Publisher: SAGE Publications ISBN: 1544307969 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 423
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Critical Issues in Crime and Justice: Thought, Policy, and Practice provides an incisive overview of issues and perspectives in criminal justice and criminology designed to expand upon key areas of study. With contributed essays from leading scholars in the field, the Third Edition illustrates the breadth of research, policy, and practice implications in areas such as crime theory, law enforcement, jurisprudence, corrections, and criminal justice organization and management. New to this edition are chapters on wrongful convictions, human trafficking, and mental illness and criminal justice, three critical issues facing contemporary policing, courts, and corrections. The coverage of concepts, insights, voices, and perspectives will challenge criminal justice and criminology students to synthesize what they have learned, question standard interpretations, and begin to create new directions and visions for their future careers as professionals in the field.
Author: Jade Lee
Author: Jade Lee
Author: Obie Clayton
Author: United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division
Author: Mark Goodale
Author: Marsha E. Barrett
Author: Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Author: Peter Dreier
Author: Jennifer L. Hochschild
Author: Jennifer E Cobbina
Author: Dan Okada