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Race And Economic Opportunity, Robert L. Woodson
Race And Economic Opportunity, Robert L. Woodson
Vanderbilt Law Review
The true character of a nation can be judged in part by the way it treats its weakest or most vulnerable members. In the past decades, no-where has this test been more evident than in the quest for civil rights by black Americans. Civil rights has also become the leading indicator of the moral health of the Nation.
With the passage of civil rights laws, one-third of black Americans-those prepared by family status, education, or economic circumstance-walked through the doors of opportunity once they were opened. For unprepared blacks, removing racial barriers did not enable them to join the mainstream …
Employment Discrimination, Charles Stephen Ralston, Paul Kamenar, William Bradford Reynolds, Gail Wright-Sirmans
Employment Discrimination, Charles Stephen Ralston, Paul Kamenar, William Bradford Reynolds, Gail Wright-Sirmans
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Risky Business: Age And Race Discrimination In Capital Redeployment Decisions, Marley S. Weiss
Risky Business: Age And Race Discrimination In Capital Redeployment Decisions, Marley S. Weiss
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Racial Reflections: Dialogues In The Direction Of Liberation , Derrick Bell, Tracy Higgins, Sung-Hee Suh
Racial Reflections: Dialogues In The Direction Of Liberation , Derrick Bell, Tracy Higgins, Sung-Hee Suh
Faculty Scholarship
"New voices" of future lawyers are particularly important in the area of civil rights because racial problems are theirs to confront in the next decades. Teaching techniques developed by Paulo Freire have facilitated the enlistment of students in the racial struggle. By these techniques teachers, as well as students, learn through sharing, and students become active participants, rather than passive observers, in the learning process. The educational process, Freire counsels, ''must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students. In the fall of 1988, two …
Welcome To The Funhouse: The Incredible Maze Of Modern Divorce Taxation, Beverly I. Moran
Welcome To The Funhouse: The Incredible Maze Of Modern Divorce Taxation, Beverly I. Moran
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
Using legislative histories the article shows how the incidence of taxation began to fall more heavily on women in the context of divorce as women's social and political status rose during World War II and that this trend continued through several sets of divorce tax reform.