... outcomes. Despite these changes, defendants' race continues to interact in important ways with legally relevant and extra-legal variables, thereby resulting in continued racial disparities in sentence outcomes. These findings suggest the need to better understand the processes and context through which race continues to affect sentencing. In addition to empirical research; examining the effect of defendant race on sentence outcomes, a number of important theoretical approaches have been developed ... to understand the various mechanisms through which race may affect sentencing. Racial d...

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... in which they talk about the origins of archeology focusing on individuals and institutions considering the histories of ideas, leading them to neglecting significant events. Fagan describes the origins of archeology in a more detailed manner and situates individuals within larger context. The other article by Tucker, Shenk, Lernetti et al. and Neil summarizes some of the theoretical challenges that applies to Human Behavioral Ecology, and ways in which evolutionary anthropologists can ... contribute to solving tough world issues. The third articles summarizes biological mechanisms of p...

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... of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures While it is important that individuals work to transform their consciousness, striving to be antiracist, it is important for us to remember that the struggle to end white supremacy is a struggle to change a system, a structure For our efforts to be truly effective, individual struggle to change consciousness must be fundamentally linked to collective effort to transform those structures that reinforce and ... ultimate perpetuation of white supremacy can be attributed to the racial integration, then ass...

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... race specific issues. He encourages the rejection of group specific political mobilization promoted by those pessimistic of coalition building in favor of an ideological vision that captures and highlights commonalities and basic core values and attitudes irrespective of race. The author offers as a historical example of an effective multiracial political coalition The Industrial Areas Foundation originally founded by Saul Alinsky in an effort to organize Chicago's marginalized poor. Today there ... is a national network of IAF organizations in forty communities across ... ...

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... has made great strides to increase its diversity and enrich its community. Their educators have recognized and respected their students' ethnic identities preparing them to assume common obligations and responsibilities of citizenship, which involve shared civic values. How do these educators depict accurately and fairly the rich ethnic diversity of the United States and also teach core values of a common American heritage? First is to communicate to students of various ethnic identities that ... they are valued members of the school community. Students are ... ...

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