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The Color Of Our Future: The Pitfalls And Possibilities Of The Race Card In American Culture, Christopher A. Bracey
The Color Of Our Future: The Pitfalls And Possibilities Of The Race Card In American Culture, Christopher A. Bracey
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
We live in a country haunted by a past of slavery, segregation, racism, and violence. Though many systemic corrections have been attempted, a large percentage of African-Americans continue to fall behind their White counterparts in nearly every index of socio-economic well-being. The debate rages on as to why this situation exists and persists, and people on both sides of the color divide have become increasingly sensitive to perceptions and accusations of racial injustice. In his book, The Race Card: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, Richard Thompson Ford explores the phenomenon called “the race card,” wherein individuals play …
Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
Family Classes: Rethinking Contraceptive Choice, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
The political attention paid to moral values - in the context of the high profile fights over abortion, homosexuality, and abstinence education - has developed over the past quarter century in ideological terms as though race and class no longer existed. In fact, the changing understandings that attend family formation reflect a long term shift in the pathways to middle class life which has created a new technocratic elite - an elite that invests heavily in both men and women’s advanced degrees, and has remade family life to its advantage. The success of the new model, which we call the …