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Latinos and the Voting Rights Act The Search for Racial Purpose

Latinos and the Voting Rights Act The Search for Racial Purpose
Latinos and the Voting Rights Act: The Search for Racial Purpose By Henry Flores
2015 | 318 Pages | ISBN: 0739190458 | PDF | 5 MB
This volume explores the role race and racism played in the Texas redistricting process and the creation and passage of the state's Voter Identification Law in 2011. The author puts forth research techniques designed to uncover racism and racist intentions even in the face of denials by the public policy decision makers involved. In addition to reviewing the redistricting history of the state, this book also provides an analysis of court decisions concerning the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and a thorough discussion of the Shelby County decision. The author brings together scholarly research and the analysis of significant Supreme Court decisions focusing on race to discuss Texas' election policy process. The core of the book centers on two federal court trials where both the state's congressional, house redistricting efforts, and the Voter ID Bill were found to violate the Voting Rights Act. This is the first book that speaks specifically to the effects of electoral politics and Latinos. The author develops new ground in racial political studies calling for movement beyond the 'dual-race' theoretical models that have been used by both the academy and the courts in looking at the effects of race on the public policy process. The author concludes that the historically tense race relations between Anglos and Latinos in Texas unavoidably affected both the redistricting process and the creation and design of the Voter ID Bill.

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Kittens Under my Kitchen Sink

Kittens Under my Kitchen Sink
Ivan Reynolds, "Kittens Under my Kitchen Sink"
English | ISBN: 1482855135 | 2016 | 44 pages | EPUB | 17 MB
This is a short chronicle of a home invasion. In the small town I live in in the United Arab Emirates, there are many feral cats surviving under some extremely tough conditions. This is the story of a female cat (we shall call her Mommy) who moved into our home in the heat of summer and made herself comfortable on and behind the couch in the foyer. We found it somewhat endearing and left her too her own devices. Our dog Pluto did not find this so endearing and many an argument was had between him and Mommy. The door to the porch remains open permanently to allow Pluto access to the garden whenever he wishes or needs to go outside. Much to our amazement we came into the kitchen one morning to find that Mommy had climbed in through a small gap at the back of the kitchen cupboard and had three cute little kitten under the kitchen sink. This book chronicles in photos their story. Regrettably, some of the photos are not the best quality as all the photos are taken on mobile phone camera. I hope that you and your children find this story as interesting as we did

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Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education

Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education
Derek R. Ford, "Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 9004396187 | PDF | pages: 524 | 4.6 mb
While education is an inherently political field and practice, and while the political struggles that radical philosophy takes up necessarily involve education, there remains much to be done at the intersection of education and radical philosophy. That so many intense political struggles today actually center educational processes and institutions makes this gap all the more pressing. Yet in order for this work to be done, we need to begin to establish common frameworks and languages in and with which to move.

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Karl Jaspers Physician, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Thinker

Karl Jaspers Physician, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Thinker
Karl Jaspers: Physician, Psychologist, Philosopher, Political Thinker by Kurt Salamun
English | EPUB | 2022 | 147 Pages | ISBN : 3476058956 | 0.3 MB
This book paints a brief picture of Karl Jaspers' unusual life and philosophy. The reader gets to know a brave personality who had to face a life between extremes. Threatened by an incurable disease and harassed by the Nazi regime, Jaspers nevertheless succeeds in building a fruitful work as a psychiatrist, researcher, academic teacher, philosopher and political writer and living an unusually happy marriage in the process. The reader is introduced to the main themes of his thinking: the meaning of life in borderline situations, interpersonal communication, God, the meaning of history and the defense of democracy. His criticism of illiberal totalitarian ways of thinking,

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Juvenile Delinquency Theory, Practice, and Law

Juvenile Delinquency Theory, Practice, and Law
Larry Siegel, Brandon C. Welsh, "Juvenile Delinquency: Theory, Practice, and Law"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1337091839 | PDF | pages: 745 | 84.2 mb
Unrivaled in its current coverage of topics, the thirteenth edition of best-selling JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND LAW provides you with timely coverage of theory, policy, and the latest research. Praised for its balanced approach and for the authors' engaging writing style, this text will help you understand the nature of delinquency and its causes, as well as current strategies being used to control or eliminate its occurrence. You'll learn about emerging types of gang activities, DNA evidence in juvenile court, school-based delinquency prevention, and many others timely issues.

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Jungle Laboratories Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill

Jungle Laboratories Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill
Gabriela Soto Laveaga, "Jungle Laboratories: Mexican Peasants, National Projects, and the Making of the Pill"
English | 2009 | pages: 336 | ISBN: 0822346052 | PDF | 9,1 mb
In the 1940s chemists discovered that barbasco, a wild yam indigenous to Mexico, could be used to mass-produce synthetic steroid hormones. Barbasco spurred the development of new drugs, including cortisone and the first viable oral contraceptives, and positioned Mexico as a major player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Yet few people today are aware of Mexico's role in achieving these advances in modern medicine. In Jungle Laboratories, Gabriela Soto Laveaga reconstructs the story of how rural yam pickers, international pharmaceutical companies, and the Mexican state collaborated and collided over the barbasco. By so doing, she sheds important light on a crucial period in Mexican history and challenges us to reconsider who can produce science.

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