Thurgood Marshall, The Race Man, and Gender Equality in the Courts
Renowned civil rights advocate and race man Thurgood Marshall came of age as a lawyer during the black protest movement in the 1930s. He represented civil rights protesters, albeit reluctantly, but was...
View ArticleHere Comes the Judge! Gender Distortion on TV Reality Court Shows
In the judicial world of television court shows women constitute a majority of the judges and where non-white women and men dominate. In real life most judges are white and male. This essay looks at...
View ArticleBlack Pluralism in Post Loving America
The face of late twentieth and early twenty-first century America has changed, as have attitudes about race, especially about persons with some African ancestry. Since 1967, the number of multi-racial...
View ArticleFunding Race as Biology: The Relevance of "Race" in Medical Research
Most scientists agree that race and ethnicity (ethno-race) classifications are the result of social and political conditions, as opposed to biological differences. But there is disagreement about the...
View ArticleThe Unfinished Journey - Education, Equality and Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
An educated society is important to the survival of a democracy, a sentiment echoed by the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education. Today most commentators concede that the implementation of Brown...
View ArticleStill Drowning in Segregation: Limits of Law in Post-Civil Rights America
Approximately 40% of the deaths attributed to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 were caused by drowning. Blacks in the New Orleans area accounted for slightly more than one half of all deaths. Some of the...
View ArticleOutsider Citizens: Film Narratives about the Internment of Japanese Americans
This article examines the conflicting film narratives about the internment from 1942 through 2007. It argues that while later film narratives, especially documentaries, counter early government film...
View ArticleJudging the Judges - Daytime Television's Integrated Reality Court Bench
Critics of reality daytime television court shows remain divided over whether the possible educational benefits of these shows outweigh their distorted images of judicial proceedings. .... few pay much...
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