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Are the ‘monstrous races’ races?
postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, 2015This essay considers the use of the modern term ‘monstrous races’ to describe the wondrous beings found in Herodotus, Pliny, The Wonders of the East, world maps and elsewhere. Considering the etymology and history of the word ‘race,’ a series of modern definitions are tested out on figures found in the images and texts of the British Library MS Harley ...
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The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a valuable tool for identifying electoral effects, but this design is only effective when relevant actors do not have precise control over election results.
Andrew C. Eggers +4 more
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The regression discontinuity (RD) design is a valuable tool for identifying electoral effects, but this design is only effective when relevant actors do not have precise control over election results.
Andrew C. Eggers +4 more
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Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls [PDF]
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2009 John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice (1971) is widely credited with having revived post–World War II Anglo American political philosophy. This book together with his later writings are routinely judged to constitute the most important body of work in that field.
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The emergence of Ug99 races of the stem rust fungus is a threat to world wheat production.
Annual Review of Phytopathology, 2011Race Ug99 of the fungus Puccinia graminis tritici that causes stem or black rust disease on wheat was first detected in Uganda in 1998. Seven races belonging to the Ug99 lineage are now known and have spread to various wheat-growing countries in the ...
R. Singh +9 more
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2014
From its inception psychology has played a central role in producing “race” as a valid concept and object of study and also, more recently, has contributed to attempts to deconstruct the term and show its epistemological violence (Teo, 2011). Today race continues to be a powerful and resilient taken-for-granted concept which institutes and preserves ...
Ahmed, Bipasha, Howarth, Caroline
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From its inception psychology has played a central role in producing “race” as a valid concept and object of study and also, more recently, has contributed to attempts to deconstruct the term and show its epistemological violence (Teo, 2011). Today race continues to be a powerful and resilient taken-for-granted concept which institutes and preserves ...
Ahmed, Bipasha, Howarth, Caroline
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Rules of engagement: molecular insights from host-virus arms races.
Annual Review of Genetics, 2012Mammalian genes and genomes have been shaped by ancient and ongoing challenges from viruses. These genetic imprints can be identified via evolutionary analyses to reveal fundamental details about when (how old), where (which protein domains), and how ...
M. Daugherty, Harmit S. Malik
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Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity
WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 2012In what follows I attempt to wrest the concept of race away from reactive dialectics and give it its full positivity. I desire, in other words, to make an affirmation of becoming in the processes of race racing. By "race racing" I don't mean a faster conception of race, but it does involve diagramming speeds as intensive rates and grathents internal to
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The Nonproliferation Review, 2016
African Americans Against the Bomb—a well-written, well-researched historical study by Vincent Intondi—explores an important subject: African-American resistance to nuclear weapons.Thanks to schola...
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African Americans Against the Bomb—a well-written, well-researched historical study by Vincent Intondi—explores an important subject: African-American resistance to nuclear weapons.Thanks to schola...
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2014
Not Guilty. Three little syllables, two simple words, one American tragedy. On July 14, 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Less than a month later, on August 12, 2013, a federal judge ruled that New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy violated the constitutional rights of various minority ...
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Not Guilty. Three little syllables, two simple words, one American tragedy. On July 14, 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Less than a month later, on August 12, 2013, a federal judge ruled that New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy violated the constitutional rights of various minority ...
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