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Civil Rights and Discrimination

American University Washington College of Law

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2011

Civil Rights

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How Myth-Busting About The Historical Goals Of Civil Rights Activism Can Illuminate Paths For The Future, Susan Carle Oct 2011

How Myth-Busting About The Historical Goals Of Civil Rights Activism Can Illuminate Paths For The Future, Susan Carle

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This article considers four myths about the history of civil rights activism, taht have tended to cloud assessments about current current civil rights law and its potential future directions. I argue that correcting those myths can help illunundile promising paths for the future. In each instance, alternative historical narrative routes for further development of core principles of civil rights law, including further theoretical and practical work to pursue long-standing concepts of structural discrimination, the promise of experimentalist approaches to regulation and enforcement, increased interdisciplinary colaboration between law and other social science fields, and more focus on matters of economic inequality …


Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model For Administrative Evolution, Mark Niles Jan 2011

Punctuated Equilibrium: A Model For Administrative Evolution, Mark Niles

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