(1991). The Black and Deaf Movements in America since 1960: Parallelism and an Agenda for the Future. American Annals of the Deaf, v136 n5 p392-400 Dec. This paper traces the political and educational movements of both African-American and hearing-impaired U.S. individuals since 1960 and compares their common as well as disparate experiences in terms of social and political background, social attitudes, family relationships, education, and employment. Four suggestions are offered for advancing the agenda of African-American hearing-impaired individuals. (Author/JDD)…
(1992). Ethnoviolence at Work. Journal of Intergroup Relations, v18 n4 p21-33 Win 1991-92. The National Victimization Project of the National Institute Against Prejudice and Violence attempted to understand violence motivated by prejudice in the United States. Interviews with 1,372 employed people confirmed the prevalence and costliness of ethnoviolence in the workplace. Human rights agencies need to address this problem. (SLD)…
(1992). Better Camping for All: A Beginning Look at the Americans with Disabilities Act. Camping Magazine, v64 n3 p28-34 Jan-Feb. Provides a brief overview of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and schedule for phasing in the law. Discusses general features of the law that apply to camps including provisions of employment and public accommodation and requirements for making camp facilities and programs accessible. Provides key definitions included in the ADA and guidelines for reviewing staff and camper applications. (LP)…
(1992). Afrocentrism and the Afrocentric Method. Western Journal of Black Studies, v16 n3 p160-68 Fall. Attempts to define a paradigm that helps shape the African-American studies discipline, and argues that emphasis must be placed on generating practical and emancipatory knowledge. African-American studies is a necessary discipline if Afrocentric scholars are to be generated who have a commitment to being scholar activists. (SLD)…
(1991). Fourth Amendment Challenges: The Legality of Searching Children. Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, v36 n2 p73-81 Win. Focuses on the recent application and interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to school children. Discusses the amendment in regard to the relationship between school authorities and children, students' legitimate expectation of privacy, reasonableness in justification of a search, issues of mass mandatory screening, and requirements of due process and individualized suspicion. (Author/PVV)…
(1998). The Legal History of Special Education: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been!. Remedial and Special Education, v19 n4 p219-28 Jul-Aug. Discusses the legal history of special education. The exclusion of students with disabilities and the early efforts to ensure a free appropriate education for students with disabilities are examined up to and including the enactment of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997. (Author/CR)…
(1999). Religion in the Public Schools. School Administrator, v56 n1 p6-10 Jan. There is now remarkable agreement on religion's proper constitutional and educational place in public education. A 1995 statement issued by 24 religious and educational groups reaffirms Americans' commitment to First Amendment principles, envisioning civil public schools that neither inculcate nor inhibit religion. Sidebars list resources for building policy and common ground. (MLH)…
(2001). The Right to Rights. Phi Delta Kappan, v82 n9 p719-20 May. When Canada signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, all government levels became responsible for adopting and implementing a set of entitlements considered too radical for Americans. Critics claim the Convention subverts absolute parental and institutional authority over children. Implementation problems and progress are discussed. (MLH)…
(2001). British Antidiscrimination Legislation and Wayfinding in Buildings in Scotland. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, v95 n2 p69-79 Feb. A study investigated the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) 1995 on the provision of wayfinding aids in local authority buildings in Scotland. Results indicate that although the DDA has raised awareness, it has not necessarily led to the incorporation of wayfinding aids in new or refurbished buildings. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)…
(1996). Beyond Affirmative Action. MultiCultural Review, v5 n1 p16-21 Mar. Makes the distinction between vertical and horizontal multiculturalism and discusses five elements that will carry multiculturalism into the future with or without affirmative action. These elements include the continued growing diversity in the population, forced intermingling of diverse groups, creation of smaller group affinities, continued growth of multicultural education, and adjustments of the marketplace into a multiculturally responsive free market. (GR)…
(1998). Democracy, Education, and Multiculturalism: Dilemmas of Citizenship in a Global World. Presidential Address. Comparative Education Review, v42 n4 p421-47 Nov. Outlines problems in reconciling tensions among theories of citizenship, democracy, and multiculturalism in the context of capitalist societies, and resulting implications for comparative education scholars. Discusses the Enlightenment as foundation of citizenship, feminist criticism, postcolonialism, critical race theory, and social movements. Focuses on the opposition of canon and culture and the role of education in identity and citizenship formation. (SV)…
(1999). Race-Sensitive Admissions in Higher Education: Commentary on How the Supreme Court Is Likely To Rule. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n26 p97-101 Win 1999-2000. Six legal scholars suggest possible outcomes of a future Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action in student admissions to higher education. The scholars examine other Supreme Court decisions and look at the impact that different justices and different presidents would have on an affirmative action ruling. (SM)…
(2001). The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in the United States. OAH Magazine of History, v15 n4 p80-84 Sum. Explores miscegenation in U.S. history, some motivations for anti-miscegenation policy, and the landmark decision of the 1967 case of \Loving v. Virginia.\ Includes three recent examples of miscegenation policy in the United States with questions for class discussion. (CMK)…
(2005). Bringing Knowledge to Truth: The Joke and Australian (In)Humanities. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, v34 p132-142. In the formulation of new humanities–knowledge, truth and social action brought together in the defence of what makes us human in this place and time–there is also the need to identify the obstacles to honouring our humanity. This paper continues the task of critically examining contemporary forms of inhumanity, in this instance as perpetuated by a liberal Australian government against its citizens and others. Liberalism, by nature, enables the co-existence of contradictory practices that both protect and deny human rights and dignities. In psychoanalytic terms, the defence of liberties and its repressed other, the denial of them, are both present in such states. Because of their links with both the conscious and the unconscious, an analysis of jokes provides insights into these contradictory processes. The paper explores how both the humanities and the inhumanities are manifest variously in the joking behaviours of social groups…. [Direct]
(2005). Reconsidering the Diversity Rationale. Liberal Education, v91 n1 p6-13 Win. The concept of diversity has come a long way in U.S. higher education, and its impact has been far reaching. Over the last three and a half decades, diversity and its related interventions have evolved to encompass a broad set of purposes, issues, and initiatives on college campuses. The earliest initiatives to increase minority access on predominantly white campuses, and later to enhance gender equity, were prompted by desegregation mandates as well as social justice concerns grounded in the democratic principles of equal opportunity and equality. Although the issue of equitable access remains of paramount interest, since the mid-1980s concerns about the persistence and academic success of underrepresented students of color have become another important thrust of diversity efforts in higher education. Additionally, addressing ongoing incidents of racial and ethnic hostility directed toward students of color and the evolution of what historian Lawrence Levine (1996, 171) termed… [Direct]