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Free Expression On Campus: Mitigating The Costs Of Contentious Speakers, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Free Expression On Campus: Mitigating The Costs Of Contentious Speakers, Suzanne B. Goldberg
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“If you’re afraid to offend, you can’t be honest.”
“If you offend me, I can’t hear what you’re trying to tell me.”
—overheard on campus
The debate over how colleges and universities should respond to contentious guest speakers on campus is not a new one. A quick look back to the early 1990s, among other times, shows commentators squaring off much as they do today about the tensions between protecting free expression and ensuring meaningful equality.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the issues that contested speakers address are also much the same as they have been for several decades – government action …
Integrating The "Underclass": Confronting America's Enduring Apartheid, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Integrating The "Underclass": Confronting America's Enduring Apartheid, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
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Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton's American Apartheid argues that housing integration has inappropriately disappeared from the national agenda and is critical to remedying the problems of the so-called "underclass." Reviewer Olati Johnson praises the authors' refusal to dichotomize race and class and the roles both play in creating and maintaining housing segregation. However, she argues, Massey and Denton fail to examine critically either the concept of the underclass or the integration ideology they espouse. Specifically, she contends, the authors fail to confront the limits of integration strategies in providing affordable housing or combating the problem of tokenism. Massey and Denton …
Toward A Race-Conscious Pedagogy In Legal Education, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Toward A Race-Conscious Pedagogy In Legal Education, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
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It is both an honor and a pleasure to write the Foreword for this issue of the National Black Law Journal. This project represents the culmination of a joint effort involving the NBLJ, Dean Susan Westerberg Prager and me. The project grew out of discussions that began in the Spring of 1987 in which we explored various ways that the law school could support the production of publishable student material for the Journal. I initially considered sponsoring interested students in independent research projects; however, a high level of student interest, an obvious overlap between proposed student topics, and my …