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Contemporary Moral Issues: Diversity and Consensus (2nd Edition)
by Lawrence
M. Hinman
This anthology provides a comprehensive selection of readings on eleven contemporary social issues revolving around three general themes: Matters of Life and Death, Matters of Equality and Diversity, and Expanding the Circle (duties beyond borders, living together with animals, and environmental ethics). Each group of readings is accompanied by narrative selections that present the moral issues from a first person point of view; an extensive introduction surveys the problems and issues; and a bibliographical essay to relevant additional literature. For anyone interested in Ethics, Social Ethics, and Contemporary Moral Problems.
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When Work Disappears : The World of the New Urban Poor
Wilson, William Julius. (New York: Vintage Books, 1997)
Argues that black socioeconomic disadvantage can be attributed to the disappearance of jobs in the inner cities, where blacks disproportionately live. An important work, especially for the way it addresses the argument that black disadvantages can be attributed to black cultural pathology. Wilson acknowledges cultural pathology, but argues that its cause is the inability of black men to find work.
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Race, Crime, and the Law
Kennedy, Randall. (New York: Vintage Books, 1997)
The best comprehensive study of racial discrimination in law enforcement, on every level: differential protection of racial groups from crime, differential prosecution, racial profiling, race-based jury selection, racism in the application of the death penalty. A mark of intellectual integrity in the book is that the author toes no party lines: while finding that the evidence supports the claim that there is racism in the application of the death penalty, Kennedy is more skeptical of arguments that the war on drugs--in particular, the sentencing differential between those convicted of possessing crack and powder cocaine--is racist.
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Jews & Blacks: A Dialogue on Race, Religion, and Culture in America
by Michael
Lerner, Cornel
West (Contributor)
It has been said that racism and bigotry are permanent in American culture. Not only is there not an ongoing public dialogue on issues of race and ehtnicity, but there's not even a common vocabulary for creating one. This is what West and Lerner try to change. While each maintains his own unique experience and perspective, the two of them solicit ideas and perspectives from each other, challenging each other's presuppositions, all in the atmosphere of a lasting, respectful, and genuine friendship.
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Two Nations : Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Andrew.. Rev. ed. (Ballantine Books, 1995)
Most valuable for its extensive statistical documentation of black-white racial inequality in the U.S. Readers not already persuaded by theories of institutional racism tend to doubt the author's causal claims that black disadvantages can be attributed to white racism, in part because of his neglect of alternative hypotheses.
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Ghetto Life 101
Recorded in Chicago, Illinois. Premiered March 1, 1993, on WBEZ
Chicago .
In March, 1993, LeAlan Jones, thirteen, and Lloyd Newman, fourteen,
collaborated with public radio producer David Isay to create the radio
documentary Ghetto Life 101, their audio diaries of life
on Chicago's South Side. The candor in Jones and Newman's diaries
brought listeners face to face with a portrait of poverty and danger
and their effects on childhood in one of Chicago's worst housing projects.
Like Vietnam War veterans in the bodies of young boys, Jones and Newman
described the bitter truth about the sounds of machine guns at night
and the effects of a thriving drug world on a community. Ghetto
Life 101 became one of the most acclaimed programs in public
radio history, winning almost all of the major awards in American
broadcasting, including: the Sigma Delta Chi Award, the Ohio State
Award, the Livingston Award, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Awards for Excellence in Documentary Radio and Special Achievement
in Radio Programming, and others. Ghetto Life 101 was also
awarded the Prix Italia, Europe's oldest and most prestigious broadcasting
award. It has been translated into a dozen languages and has been
broadcast worldwide.
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Working Paper: Neighborhood Segregation in Single-Race and Multirace America: A Census 2000 Study of Cities and Metropolitan Areas
William H. Frey, University of Michigan and the Milken
Institute
Dowell Myers, University of Southern California
This report accompanies the release of detailed racial segregation indices for 1,246 individual U.S. cities with populations exceeding 25,000 and for the 318 U.S. metropolitan areas. These data can be accessed from the World Wide Web at www.CensusScope.org. This study extends earlier work on racial segregation from Census 2000.
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 Reparations
from Weekend Edition - Sunday, Sunday, August 18, 2002
Yesterday, black advocates marched on Washington, demanding reparations as a payment to African-Americans who lived under the shackles of slavery. The call for reparations has been made before, but some in the black community fear it may only polarize race relations. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports from Washington. (5:24)
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Stolen Land
from The Tavis Smiley Show, Monday, February 4, 2002
Over the last century, many African Americans have lost their land through coercion by individuals, corporations and the government. Host Tavis Smiley talks with Dr. Ray Winbush, Director of Fisk University's Institute of Race Relations, and Joyce Rayner, an African American who is trying to regain the land stolen from a family member decades ago. (9:42)
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Race Poll
from All Things Considered, Tuesday, July 10, 2001
American attitudes about race relations have gotten worse over the last few years, according to a new Gallup Poll. More black and white respondents say African-Americans are discriminated against in their communities than in the last Gallup poll of this kind in 1997. And close to half of African-Americans now say their children don't have equal opportunities for a good education. Linda Wertheimer talks with Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup Poll. (4:15)
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My Race Problem - And OursA consideration of touchy matters -- racial pride, racial solidarity, and racial loyalty -- rarely discussed, by Randall Kennedy
HAT is the proper role of race in determining how I, an American black,
should feel toward others? One response is that although I should
not dislike people because of their race, there is nothing wrong with
having a special -- a racial -- affection for other black
people. Indeed, many would go further and maintain that something
would be wrong with me if I did not sense and express racial pride,
racial kinship, racial patriotism, racial loyalty, racial solidarity
-- synonyms for that amalgam of belief, intuition, and commitment
that manifests itself when blacks treat blacks with more solicitude
than they do those who are not black.
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The Divided Society and the Democratic Idea
by Glenn C. Loury, University Lecture, Boston University- October 7, 1996
Race and the Problem of Civic Inclusion. We, the faculty of this great university, are all specialists of one kind or another-economists, physicists, historians, philosophers, poets. Necessarily then, we are the masters of rarefied techniques of inquiry and expression peculiar to our disciplines. But if we were no more than that, we should have failed our students, and ourselves. We are also intellectuals, and citizens. We bear the citizen's duty to engage the problems of this society, and the intellectual's responsibility to speak what truth he is given to know about them.
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Solving the New Inequality
Richard B. Freeman
Over the past two decades, income inequality in the United States has massively increased. This jump owes to the unprecedentedly abysmal earnings experience of low-paid Americans, income stagnation covering about 80 percent of all families, and an increase in upper-end incomes. The rise in inequality-greater than in most other developed countries-has reversed the equalization in income and wealth we experienced between 1945 and 1970. The United States has now cemented its traditional position as the leader in inequality among advanced countries.
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Equality and Responsibility
John E. Roemer
International political events of the last fifteen years indicate deep popular skepticism about the egalitarianism of the welfare state: the latest dramatic example, for Americans, may be the Republican sweep in the recent congressional elections. The reasons for this skepticism are complex, but they are partly philosophical. Many people associate egalitarianism, and the policies of the welfare state in particular, with a rejection of individual responsibility. They accuse the modern welfare state of being a "Nanny State," which seeks to take care of citizens -- ministering to their needs, indemnifying them against all major harms, and relieving them of any personal responsibility to make their lives go well.
In this essay I aim to answer this charge. I will present a form of egalitarianism founded on the idea of equality of opportunity -- the prevailing conception of social justice in western liberal democracies.
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The Return of Inequality
by Thomas Byrne Edsall, June 1988
The great bulk of Americans are losing economic and political power, while the affluent are gaining both. This is not a recipe for social comity
Social imagination often lags behind social fact. Long after farming had ceased to be the premier American occupation, for example, we thought of ourselves as a nation of farmers, and the small town still serves as a touchstone of Americanness. This essay will explore a similar lag between a picture in our minds and a quantifiable social reality--a phenomenon that challenges an image of America that is about as true to our condition as those Norman Rockwell Sunday Evening Post covers that move us to nostalgia. The phenomenon is not poverty. Our mental picture already has a place for that. Poverty has a claim on our moral sense; it stirs our beneficence and concern.
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Who's Your Neighbor? Residential Segregation and Diversity in California
By Juan Onésimo Sandoval, Hans P. Johnson, and Sonya M. Tafoya, Public Policy Institute of California
During the 1990s, California's population became more racially and
ethnically diverse. By 2000, no single racial or ethnic group constituted
a majority of the state's population. Increases in Latino and Asian
populations were particularly high. In this edition of California
Counts, we examine the degree to which the state's increasing
diversity was experienced at the neighborhood level. Did California's
growing Latino and Asian populations lead to even greater segregation
in the state, or did neighborhoods in California reflect the diversity
of the state's population? As components of larger geographic areas,
how did these neighborhoods define the character of cities, counties,
and regions?
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US Department Of State on Human Rights
The protection of fundamental human rights was a foundation stone in the establishment of the United States over 200 years ago. Since then, a central goal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promotion of respect for human rights, as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The United States understands that the existence of human rights helps secure the peace, deter aggression, promote the rule of law, combat crime and corruption, strengthen democracies, and prevent humanitarian crises.
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Women's Human Rights Resources
The purpose of the Women's Human Rights Resources Web Site is to provide reliable and diverse information on international women's human rights via the Internet.
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all. Human Rights Watch is supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide, and accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.
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Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action: Resource Page for Teaching
(Updated July 2002)
This is an annotated bibliography of resources on race, gender, and affirmative action intended for the use of faculty who are designing courses concerning race, gender, and affirmative action, and for students and browsers interested in a guide to the literature.
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/biblio.htm |
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