Continuing The Gandhi Legacy: An Interview With Arun Gandhi,
2010
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Continuing The Gandhi Legacy: An Interview With Arun Gandhi, Geoffrey Kain
Publications
“Arun Gandhi (1934- ) is the fifth grandson of Mohandas Gandhi. Arun’s father, Manilal (1892-1956), second son of Mohandas and Kasturba Gandhi, was sent by his father to run the Phoenix Farm ashram outside of Durban, South Africa, and this is where Arun Gandhi was raised…”
Othering Obama : How Whiteness Is Used To Undermine Authority,
2010
University of Louisville
Othering Obama : How Whiteness Is Used To Undermine Authority, David S. Owen
Faculty and Staff Scholarship
In this paper, I argue that the sociocultural structuring property of whiteness has been utilized to marginalize President Obama and effectively undermine his presidential authority. Whiteness functions in a largely invisible and ostensibly deracialized way to normalize the interests, needs, and values of whites, while at the same time marginalizing and devaluing the voice of people of color. Analyzing the health care debate through this theoretical lens generates insights into how the debate reproduced the system of racial oppression, and how whiteness functions in political discourse.
Five Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know,
2010
Western Michigan University
Five Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know, Ann K. Vaught
Honors Theses
Operating under the assumption that the average college student knows little to nothing about the Supreme Court and significant cases in the field of American constitutional law, the author hypothesizes that this ignorance is due not to an inability to understand the material, but an unwillingness on the part of the average student to expend the effort necessary to decipher the "legalese" of an average Supreme Court opinion. The author also hypothesizes that it is the high and lofty language of the opinions that generally disenchants the reader, and not the information itself. Therefore, as a means of testing this …
