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Umaine Professors Study The Link Between Racial Prejudice And The Punishment Of Criminals, Gladys Ganiel
Umaine Professors Study The Link Between Racial Prejudice And The Punishment Of Criminals, Gladys Ganiel
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
During the past 30 years, the criminal justice system in the United States has meted out increasingly harsher punishments for offenders, so that today the U.S. imprisonment rate is the highest in the Western industrial world. Research by two University of Maine sociology professors suggests that racial prejudice against African-Americans is one of the underlying factors in the creation of public policies favoring crime control.
Sport, And The Changing Definition Of Whiteness, Bradburn Virgil Buras
Sport, And The Changing Definition Of Whiteness, Bradburn Virgil Buras
LSU Master's Theses
This paper looks at the effects of professional basketball on white culture. Traditional scholarship focuses on the impact this has on the African-American community. Very little attention is given to its effects on white America. The focus of this paper is to examine whiteness and to understand how it is socially constructed. In addition, this paper will examine how some elements of black style have been appropriated by white America and changed the definition of whiteness in America. White America's appropriation of limited aspects of black style has been facilitated by the culture that is associated with professional basketball. The …