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Silencio: The Hispanic/Latino Reticent Approach to Racism

their skin. Racial discrimination is one of the most ever-present issues in the United States of America today. Some look at discrimination and believe that it has been “fixed” through our political and ... . THEORETICAL VIEW ON LATINO SILENCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 A. Educational Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 B. Political Processes

Does legal freedom satisfy?

Much political conflict in the world revolves around the issue of how much freedom to accord people. Liberal democracies are characterized by, e.g., the rule of law and a strong protection of civil ... , income and the political system in generating satisfaction with freedom. Freedom; Satisfaction; Well-being; Happiness; Civil rights; Rule of law 1 Introduction How much freedom to accord people is one

What to the Marginalized Person is the American Dream

favorite artists of all time, Bob Marley, “We know we shall win as we are confident in the victory of good over evil.”33 33. BOB MARLEY, WAR (Island 1976). 5. The King Philosophy -Nonviolence , KING CTR ... . ( 2023 ), https://thekingcenter.org / about-tkc/the-king-philosophy/. 6. About Us , FLORIDA AGRIC. & MECH. UNIV. COLL . OF L. ( 2023 ), https://law.famu.edu/ about-us/index.php. 7. See generally DORON

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of Torino , Turin , Italy 1 Karl Mittermaier Centre for Philosophy of Economics, University of Johannesburg , Johannesburg , South Africa 2 F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy

The American Dream Belongs to All of Us: Latinos and Jamaican Americans Experience Cultural Genocide by American Assimilation

also LEE, supra note 2, at 3. 12. Kevin R. Johnson, The Struggle for Civil Rights: The Need for, and Impediments to, Political Coalitions Among and Within Minority Groups, 63 LA. L. REV. 759, 768 (2003 ... to every person who inhabits the United States of America.17 Charles Sumner was a member of the Radical Republicans, a political party that played a significant role in the development of America as

Rights redistribution and COVID-19 lockdown policy

-in-place policy as an interpersonal exchange of rights, but where the exchange occurs coercively instead of voluntarily. It compares, in positive political economy terms, the normative principles of ... exchanges in political theory . Social Philosophy and Policy , 22 ( 1 ), 286 - 313 . Fauci , A. , Lane , H. C. , & Redfield , R. R. ( 2020 ). COVID-19 -Navigating the uncharted . New England Journal of

Market power and journalistic quality

The political news media play an important role in the successful working of democratic societies. In order to fulfill this role, a sufficient level of journalistic quality is required. Most Western ... implies regulation of the media sector by competition law, which may take different attitudes towards market power. While it is undisputed that some aspects of competition between political news media firms

More Money, More Problems: Why H.R. 1318 is an Insufficient Fix to Remedy the Maternal Mortality Crisis

, the United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality in the industrialized world. Unfortunately, maternal mortality did not become a political issue until public figures, like Beyonc´e and ... children despite social, political, or racial background.86 When Congress passed H.R. 1318, it did so with the full intention of helping states figure out the “why” behind the substantial increase of

School Curriculum: The Sigmatic Harm to Students and the Responsibility of Congress to Act Again

. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644, 681 (2015) (the court didn’t trust fundamental rights to the political process, doubting the majority will push towards equality quick enough to ensure all Americans may participate ... curriculum has largely remained unchanged while minority populations continue to grow and gain political recognition.15 Minority students are growing up in a diverse country where they rarely see themselves

The Anti-Woke and the Black American (Waking) Dream

fashion, it even had a baseball team.14 Many of its residents owned their own homes.15 Some even owned two-story homes with pianos and other trappings of middle-class prosperity.16 Thus, as political ... its widespread reach, the series struggled to gain acceptance in both academic and political circles.28 Even in 1993, after formal investigation into the massacre by the state of Florida, many

Constitutional overperformance: an empirical study of de facto protection of rights with no de jure equivalents

older and less comprehensive constitutions, a high degree of democratization and a more robust civil society, plagued by less political conflict. Spatial interdependence effects are also identified ... rights; Spruk, 2016 on political institutions; Lewczuk, 2019 on human rights protection) . More and more literature aiming to identify the factors explaining both types of rules has also emerged

Critical Race Theory and Florida Schools: An Attempt to Suppress Racism Embedded Within American History

Critical Race Theory an important part of the political agenda.18 Bills and legislation removing Critical Race Theory from the educational curriculum are also hot topics in secondary and higher education ... Americans.39 The 1619 Project is a central reason why Critical Race Theory has been pushed to the forefront of the political arena today.40 This 35. See George, supra note 20 (discussing Critical Race Theory

Law, human capital, and the emergence of free city-states in medieval Italy

of new political entities. We investigate how the birth of the first universities in Italy and the consequent diffusion of new juridical We wish to thank the Editors of this journal and two anonymous ... institutional setting of cities with respect to the feudal regime. Whereas under feudalism the city was governed by rulers (lord or bishop), deriving their authority from a superior political entity (the Emperor

Must American Artists Starve?

slander.”2 OPENING THOUGHTS Freedom is the bedrock of social, political, and industrial life in the United States of America.3 It is ingrained so deeply in the American psyche that many children do not ... our society. For centuries, the notion of freedom has been chewed through by philosophers and scholars alike in search of a kind of certainty that can support political rule.4 But this thought is

Feast days, territory, and political alliances among quilombola communities in Salvaterra, Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil

central concepts of territory and gifts to understand the construction of political alliances among the quilombola groups. Based on ethnographic research, this study demonstrates that the patron saint ... in these communities help build and maintain political alliances, as well as gather and mutually engage communities in one large celebration circuit that extends beyond the borders of these communal

Feast days, territory, and political alliances among quilombola communities in Salvaterra, Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil

concepts of territory and gifts to understand the construction of political alliances among the quilombola groups. Based on ethnographic research, this study demonstrates that the patron saint festivals held ... in these communities help build and maintain political alliances, as well as gather and mutually engage communities in one large celebration circuit that extends beyond the borders of these communal

This time is different?—on the use of emergency measures during the corona pandemic

liberties of individuals. Here, we analyze the use of emergency provisions during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and find that it can be largely explained by drawing on political economy. It does ... political economy. It does, hence, not constitute an exception. We show that many governments have (mis-)used the pandemic as a pretext to curtail media freedom. We further show that executive decrees are

Agência e contingência no acesso à terra e reprodução social camponesa no vale do rio Mearim, estado do Maranhão

the Brazilian State, manage different levels of agency to ensure their social reproduction while remaining on the land. In the three cases studied, the collective action processes and political ... processes and political articulation performed by the interviewees in response to these contingencies represent discontinuities between generations, with different consequences for family trajectories. In

Agência e contingência no acesso à terra e reprodução social camponesa no vale do rio Mearim, estado do Maranhão

the Brazilian State, manage different levels of agency to ensure their social reproduction while remaining on the land. In the three cases studied, the collective action processes and political ... processes and political articulation performed by the interviewees in response to these contingencies represent discontinuities between generations, with different consequences for family trajectories. In

Does criminalizing the purchase of sex reduce sex-buying? Evidence from a European survey on prostitution

also “share a consensus-oriented political culture” and “a historically dominant evangelical Lutheran state-church” (Bucken-Knapp et al., 2014) . All in all, I argue that these two countries are ... exploratory study . Psychology of Women Quarterly , 14 ( 1 ), 135 - 141 . https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471- 6402 . 1990 .tb00009.x Berinsky , A. J. ( 2002 ). Political context and the survey response: The