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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 …
The Central Mistake Of Sex Discrimination Law: The Disaggregation Of Sex From Gender, Katherine M. Franke
The Central Mistake Of Sex Discrimination Law: The Disaggregation Of Sex From Gender, Katherine M. Franke
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Contemporary sex discrimination jurisprudence accepts as one of its foundational premises the notion that sex and gender are two distinct aspects of human identity. That is, it assumes that the identities male and female are different from the characteristics masculine and feminine. Sex is regarded as a product of nature, while gender is understood as a function of culture. This disaggregation of sex from gender represents a central mistake of equality jurisprudence.
Antidiscrimination law is founded upon the idea that sex, conceived as biological difference, is prior to, less normative than, and more real than gender. Yet in every way …