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Getting to the Roots of School Segregation : The Challenges of Housing Remedies in Northern School Desegregation Litigation

Nave, Erin C. - 2008

The critical relationship between racially identifiable neighborhoods in northern cities and school segregation has … obstacles, evidence of residential segregation has still historically played a significant strategic role. This essay highlights … limited, housing remedy. As the isolation and re-segregation of urban school districts in northern cities continues, it is …

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Executing Racial Justice

Kysel, Ian M.; Sinha, G. Alex - 2023

The United States has failed to eliminate racial discrimination in the decades since ratifying the international human rights treaty that prohibits it. To its credit, the Biden Administration has attempted to center the fight for racial equity in the work of the executive branch. But President...

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Racial inequality in the U.S. unemployment insurance system

Skandalis, Daphné; Marinescu, Ioana Elena; Massenkoff, … - 2022

While unemployment insurance (UI) could help attenuate racial income disparities in the U.S., Black unemployed workers seem to receive less UI benefits than White ones. To understand why, we analyze administrative data from random audits on UI claims in all U.S. states. We first document a large...

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Do Black Mayors Improve Black Employment Outcomes? Evidence from Large U.S. Cities

Nye, John V. - 2013

To what extent do politicians reward voters who are members of their own ethnic or racial group? Using data from large cities in the United States, we study how black employment outcomes are affected by changes in the race of the cities' mayors between 1971 and 2003. We find that black...

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South Africa's Land Reform Crisis : Eliminating the Legacy of Apartheid

Atuahene, Bernadette - 2014

Under colonialism and apartheid, the ruling white minority stole vast amounts of land from black Africans in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Reclaiming this land became an important rallying cry for liberation movements in both countries; but in the years after white minority rule ended, it was...

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Comparing the Recruitment of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Police Departments in England and Wales with the USA

Rowe, Mike - 2015

In the late 1820s, when British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced legislation into the British parliament to create the very first police department, the phrase that the ‘police are the public, and the public are the police' was developed to allay public fears that the new institution...

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Forgotten Racial Equality : Implicit Bias, Decision-Making and Misremembering

Levinson, Justin D. - 2010

This Article argues that judges and jurors unknowingly propagate racism through their legal decisions because they misremember case facts in implicitly biased ways. Such an argument bridges discourse in implicit social cognition, memory studies, and legal decision-making. Social cognition...

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