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The Influence of Past Racism on Criminal Injustice: A Review of The New Jim Crow and The Condemnation of Blackness [PDF]

, 2012
This essay reviews The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander; and The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran ...
Jefferson Exum, Jelani
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Racism and Discrimination in South Africa’s Apartheid Tourism Landscape

Studia Periegetica
Tourism scholarship has devoted only a small amount of attention to issues around racial discrimination. This article represents a novel contribution to historical research on racial discrimination and understanding the racialization of tourism ...
Christian Rogerson
doaj   +1 more source

Caste criminalisation in South India and permanent migration to Fiji, 1903–1927

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Does the official criminalisation of a group lead to permanent out‐migration? In the early 20th century, British officials in south India designated multiple castes as inherently criminal under the Criminal Tribes Act (CTA). The CTA required police registration and could force entire groups into special settlements.
Alexander Persaud
wiley   +1 more source

Press Prudence, Nazi Student Orders, and Jim Crow [PDF]

, 2004
This Article discusses the 1931 decision of the Austrian Constitutional Court in which it was held that rules promulgated by the University of Vienna, which aimed to separate the student body into four ethnically-defined nations, were invalid.
Pollak, Louis H.
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“Who Shall Dare Compute in Dollars and Cents the Worth of One Mind!”: Mental Health, Disability, Addiction, and Jim Crow Laws in North Carolina, 1866–1967

Journal of Open Humanities Data
What do laws concerning Jim Crow racial oppression and mental health, disability, and addiction care have in common? How might an existing dataset of historical North Carolina General Assembly laws reveal legal intersections between racial oppression and
Hannah L. Jacobs
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On Racialized, Gendered, Precarious Work: Struggles of Community Health Workers During the National Health Insurance Pilot Program in the Tshwane District, South Africa

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The infrastructure of precarious work is racialized and gendered, affecting disenfranchised Black women who carry the burden of low paid caregiving within the healthcare system. In South Africa, Community Health Workers, predominantly Black women from marginalized communities, have been vital in providing primary healthcare services at home ...
Sivuyisiwe Wonci
wiley   +1 more source

Workers without Rights [PDF]

, 2017
In the United States the Civil Rights Movement emerging after World War II ended Jim Crow racism, with its legal segregation and stigmatization of black people.
Gomberg, Paul
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Jim Crow North and Fair Housing Enforcement

Columbia Journal of Race and Law
This article investigates how federal, state, and local government agencies enforce the federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 (also known as Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968) in Northeastern states, which are referred to here as the Jim Crow North.
Charles S. Bullock, III, Charles M. Lamb   +1 more
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The Epistemic Harms of Botched Apologies for Past Wrongs

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Apologies often create expectations of meaningful change and repair. Yet when institutions or states deliver apologies for past wrongs that lack substantive reparative action, they risk deepening, rather than redressing, the harms they acknowledge.
Abraham Tobi
wiley   +1 more source

Blacks, Cops, and the State of Nature [PDF]

, 2017
This essay offers a new way to conceptualize the “police violence against Blacks” phenomenon. I argue that we should see the situation as an instance of what Thomas Hobbes called the state of nature, that is, a state without effective law.
Donelson, Raff
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