In theJim Crow South, for example, police officers, bus drivers, educators and other agents of the state worked in tandem to maintain segregation and, thus, racism against people of color. While ethnic minorities during this time may have harbored ill will towards Caucasians, they lacked the ...
Today’s mass killing of innocent young children and adults in the Sandy Hook Elementary School has rocked us to our core. On the “violence continuum” this is off the chart, an extraordinary, unthinkable act by a disturbed individual. It shatters our belief of school as a safe haven–a ...
and over 2500 years ago the Greek historian Herodotos wrote that ethnicity was regularly turned to political ends.Cleopatra VII, the last queen of Egypt and a woman of great ability, is often a victim of racial profiling, as today people can be more interested...
decades, American legal institutions enjoy to this day remarkable prestige and continue to impact significantly other systems around the globe. American courts, for instance, are still often referred to as “the most powerful and admired judiciary in the world.” Not only do they still reach more...
Wheeler, as a former anti-segregation protester in the South, under Eisenhower and probably the only one of that era still alive, I know racists very well and you fit the mold exactly. If I had any problem, with race, I wouldn't have lived in Jamaica for over a decade or be in ...
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tion to the racial composition of schools (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1967). Although most of the subsequent analysis flowing from Brown has related directly to the desegregation of schools (for example, Armor, 1995; Rossell, Armor, & Wal- ...
This paper will examine Muslim women’s engagement in Islamic scholarship by reviewing the foundational source of Islamic knowledge while referencing Somali female activists I interviewed in my 2017 published thesis. In particular, Somali women’s active