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African American Racial Identity And Sport, Keith Harrison

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The purpose of this paper is to attempt to synthesize and apply African American racial identity theory and related research to the development of sport and physical activity patterns and preferences in African American youth. Historically the African American over-representation in particular sports phenomena has been examined genetically, anthropocentrically, physiologically, sociologically, and psychologically. The profusion of explanations is a testimony to the complexity of this phenomena. This manuscript provides yet another compelling perspective. Cross [(1995) The psychology of Nigrescence: revising the Cross Model, in: J.G. PONTEROTTO et al. (Eds) Handbook of Multicultural Counseling (Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage)] outlines the metamorphic …

Scholar Or Baller In American Higher Education? A Visual Elicitation And Qualitative Assessment Of The Studentathlete's Mindset, Keith Harrison

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Eminent scholar Harry Edwards (2000) has articulated three major realities of African American males in sports: a) The presumption of innate, race-linked black athletic superiority and intellectual deficiency; b) media propaganda portraying sports as a broadly accessible route to African American social and economic mobility; and c) a lack of comparably visible, high-prestige African American role models beyond the sports arena. Driven by labeling theory (Becker, 1963; Goffman, 1959), eight African American male student athletes were surveyed and interviewed. The last two points of Edwards' scholarship were investigated. "We have pretty good historical data and quantitative data about African American …

Who Can A Baller Trust? Analyzing Public University Response To Alleged Student-Athlete Misconduct In A Commercial And Confusing Environment, Keith Harrison

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"Genocide And Colonialism", Lorenzo Veracini

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

In conversation with Lorenzo Veracini, Ann Curthoys and John Docker discuss some of the issues at stake for Australian Aboriginal history in current international debates about the definitions of genocide.

'Aboriginality And Australian Cinematography: Engaging With History': Review Of One Night The Moon, Lorenzo Veracini

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

'Aboriginality and Australian Cinematography: Engaging with History': Review of One Night the Moon, Rachel Perkins, dir., John Romeril sc., MusicArtsDance Films Pty Ltd, film released on 08/11/2001.

Conjectures And Exhumations: Citations Of History, Philosophy And Sociology Of Science In Us Federal Courts, Gary Edmond, David Mercer

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

This article examines the circumstances in which a version of Sir Karl Popper's philosophy of science became US law. Among historians, philosophers and sociologists of science, as well as legal commentators, the US Supreme Court's Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, .Inc. (1993) decision has received considerable attention. The case is significant because America's most senior court produced a definition of science (for legal purposes). This definition was authorized by the symbolic exhumation, celebration and appropriation of key elements of the philosophy of science developed decades earlier by Popper. Significantly, it was not just Popper's philosophy that was exhumed and resurrected …

Funding The Ideological Struggle, Damien Cahill

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Over the past twenty-five years a radical neo-liberal movement, more commonly known as the 'new right', has launched a sustained assault upon the welfare state, social justice and defenders of these institutions and ideas. In Australia, the organisational backbone of this movement is provided by think tanks such as the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS), and the Tasman Institute; and forums such as the H.R. Nicholls Society. Central to the movement's efficacy and longevity has been financial support from Australia's corporate sector and industry interest groups. Activists and scholars have produced many articles and …

Still Moving: Bush Mechanics In The Central Desert, Georgine W. Clarsen Dr

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Brake fluid made from washing powder mixed in water? Welding a muffler with jumper leads, fencing wire and a car battery? Replacement brake pads carved from mulga-wood with a tomahawk, or an emergency clutch plate shaped out of an old boomerang? Spare parts filed in collective memory, and scattered in old car wrecks along dirt tracks? Strips of blanket wound into windscreen-wiper blades? Such is the car repair advice offered in Bush Mechanics, the series recently screened on ABC Television.1 Presented with humour and enthusiasm, as well as a large dose of self-parody, this is mechanical advice unlike any other. …

The Making Of A Communist Journalist: Rupert Lockwook, 1908-1940, Rowan Cahill

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The journalist/publicist Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997) was one of Australia’s best known Cold War communists, his name synonymous with the Royal Commission into Espionage in Australia, 1954-1955, as author of the notorious Document J. However the communist journalist did not spring fully formed into history. He joined the Australian Communist Party in 1939. This article traces Lockwood’s development as a journalist and his evolution as a communist between the wars. It is a story that ranges from small-town Western Victoria, and the West Wimmera Mail, to Melbourne and Sir Keith Murdoch’s Herald. In between, much of the world is traversed--significantly, South …

La Intervención En Las Comunicaciones Privadas En El Supuesto De La Delincuencia Organizada, Luis Gomez Romero

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Quisiera comenzar estas lineas recordando una de las escasas epopeyas que fue capaz de producir la imaginacion humana durante el siglo XX. Extrana saga, sin dud a alguna, es aquella que ahora acude a mi memoria, toda vez que el heroe que la encarna es, segun Ie describe la pluma de quien Ie diera vida, "un muchacho pequeno y francamente gordo, de unos diez u once anos". Me refiero, como algunos de ustedes habnin adivinado, a La Historia Interminable, del escritor y cuentista aleman Michael Ende' .

Bastian Baltasar Bux, segun cuenta Ende, es un muchacho comun y corriente a …

A Principled Basis For Psychological Research: Book Review Of Praetorius On Cognition-Action, Daniel Hutto

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Praetorius' book advocates a healthy review and reform of the basic assumptions of much general theorising in psychology. Her central concern is to supply reasons of principle to demarcate the psychological and stave off reductionism. She seeks to derive these results from a handful of principles that she holds must be accepted since they form the very grounds for engaging in any inquiry at all. She employs these to good effect by showing that a number of prominent targets engaged in psychological theorising, including Gibson, Marr, Saussure, Stich and Fodor, are prey to deep-seated confusions about the general relation between …

The New Millennium: Facades And Duplicities, Anthony Macris

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Its second year not even finished, the third millennium has already revealed one of its greatest fracture points in the form of a spectacular catastrophe: the destruction of one of capitalism's most powerful architectural symbol, the World Trade Centre in New York.

Issues In Transatlantic Police Cooperation, Clive Harfield

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Research from a Fulbright Police Fellowship conducted in summer 2001 studying US attitudes and policies to inter- national law enforcement cooperation is presented. Differences between UK police and the multitude of US federal agencies in approaches to investigating transnational organised crime are identified, along with the implications for conducting evidence- gathering abroad and joint operations. No one approach is either right or wrong: the key to successful investigations lies in accommodating, rather than bemoaning, political and cultural differences in attitudes to law enforcement. This article alerts investigators to some of the issues they may encounter in transatlantic cooperation. Although researched …

Review Of Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandaranji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852 By Patrick Collins, Lorenzo Veracini

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Book review of: Patrick Collins. Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandaranji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842-1852. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2002. 305 + XV pp. $34.00

Tampering With Border Protection: The Legal And Policy Implications Of The Voyage Of The Mv Tampa, Stuart B. Kaye

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

While the events of 11 September 200 1 and the "children overboard incident" have overshadowed it in the popular press, the voyage of the MV Tampa in August and September 2001 has had a significant impact upon Australian law and policy. The Tampa incident has seen both a substantial change in Australian law, with alterations to customs and migration legislation, and a dramatic change in Australian policy towards unauthorised boat arrivals. This chapter will consider the incident in some detail, and examine its long-term consequences for Australian offshore law enforcement and policy.

Book Review. American War In The 1990s, David G. Delaney

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Yale Rosenberg: The Scholar And The Teacher Of Jewish Law, Sherman L. Cohn

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In the early 1980s, when he was a young professor at the University of Houston Law Center, the author had the occasion to meet Yale Rosenberg. It was clear from their discussion that Professor Rosenberg had a strong interest in Jewish law as well as a strong knowledge base. They discussed teaching such a course at the University of Houston Law Center. Professor Rosenberg was doubtful about teaching a course in Jewish law at a secular law school, particularly one in Texas. But that conversation began a series of conversations where Yale explored in some depth the course that we …

Constitutional Classifications And The "Gay Gene", Susan J. Becker

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

In this essay the author discusses the use of genetic information to classify individuals for purposes of the law, and more specifically, the impact of the so-called “gay gene” on legal classifications.

Conclusion: Maritime Border Protection After The Tampa And 9/11, Anthony Bergin, Ben M. Tsamenyi, Christopher Rahman

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

The objective of these proceedings has been to review current arrangements for national maritime border protection and to canvass some fresh approaches. The book (and preceding conference) have been designed to avoid getting bogged down in any great detail on sectoral issues, instead taking a more holistic view of the overall maritime border protection regime. The issue is timely in view of the public and political interest in developments regarding maritime security and border protection following the controversy surrounding the MV Tampa incident of August 2001 and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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Liberal Ideals And Political Feasibility: Guest-Worker Programs As Second-Best Policies, Howard F. Chang

All Faculty Scholarship

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Law And Justice In The Twenty-First Century, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

All Faculty Scholarship

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Method And Principle In Legal Theory, Stephen R. Perry

All Faculty Scholarship

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The Roles Of Litigation, Stephen B. Burbank

All Faculty Scholarship

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Commercial Speech And The Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine: A Second Look At "The Greater Includes The Lesser", Mitchell N. Berman

All Faculty Scholarship

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''Step On A Crack, Break Your Mother's Back'': Poor Moms, Myths Of Authority, And Drug-Related Evictions From Public Housing, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

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An International Constitutional Moment, William W. Burke-White, Anne-Marie Slaughter

All Faculty Scholarship

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When Gender Differences Become A Trap: The Impact Of China's Labor Law On Women, Charles J. Ogletree, Rangita De Silva De Alwis

All Faculty Scholarship

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Force And Colonial Development In Eastern Uganda, Carol Summers

History Faculty Publications

This article explores why and how administrators and missionaries in Eastern Uganda came to associate progress and development with the need to whip, coerce, and imprison women, developing new institutions for the violent control of wives that went far beyond more common patterns of informal patriarchal control. New Native Courts took over from husbands in arranging for troublesome wives to be whipped. New mission associations of church, teachers’ and evangelists’ groups, and church men’s groups worked to establish Christian patriarchal control over wives who rejected husbands and Christ. Both officials and missionaries understood clearly that the government and missions needed …

Book Review: The Mormon Question: Polygamy And Constitutional Conflict In Nineteenth-Century America, Terryl Givens

English Faculty Publications

Polygamy makes for fascinating social history and for best-selling potboilers as well. This study by Sarah Barringer Gordon, who teaches both law and history at the University of Pennsylvania, is the first attempt to write a full-length legal history of “the Principle.” It turns out that even in this dry-as-dust genre, polygamy fuels a very dynamic story indeed, one that reveals the rich malleability of the Constitution, the endless resourcefulness of determined guardians of public morality, and the resilience of a peculiar people committed to the practice of plural marriage.

Theaters Of Pardoning: Tragicomedy And The Gunpowder Plot, Bernadette Meyler

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This article examines the dramatic character of King James I’s reaction to the 1605 Gunpowder Plot - the first act of terrorism in the West - and his attempts both to inscribe the unprecedented crime within the conventional structure of revenge tragedy and to interpret the event according to a model of tragicomedy indebted to John of Patmos' apocalyptic Revelation. On account of applying these cultural and religious paradigms, the King suggested that Parliament be entrusted with judging the conspirators, thus imaginatively displacing his sovereignty onto it.