... black defendants serve as much time in federal prison for drug offenses as white defendants serve for violent offenses-a result largely attributed to biases in federal statutory penalties for offenses involving crack versus powder cocaine (Mauer and King, 2007a). Understanding why, how, and under what contexts defendant race affects sentencing decisions is crucial to addressing such disparate outcomes. Since ... even if judges' sentencing decisions are wholly unaffected by race, racial inequities in sentencing outcomes can occur by virtue of biases that were introduced at earlier stages ...

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... 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 ... into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the latter into the Irish, the Germans, the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs, ...

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... Forensic Anthropologist's work on determining the age, sex , ancestry , stature, and unique features of a dead from the skeleton. The also cooperatively work with other pathologists, odontologists, and homicide investigators to identify the decedent, document trauma to the skeleton, and estimate the postmortem interval. Another question that comes to our mind when we think about Forensic Anthropology is that what do the ... Forensic Anthropologists Do? They are commonly portrayed in the media as scientists, and/or scene technicians, but it is not ... , looks at trauma evident on the bon...

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... opposed to "racist" when describing the institutionalized oppression based on "race," stating, "-white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black people of ... 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 ...

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... 10% students, boasts a number that is extremely low to those of similar schools. What number of students is necessary to ensure that students of color do not feel socially isolated, and provides the school the enriched community we seek? The most frequent lament expressed among us the students of color is that "there are not enough of us-. To be the ... race is a burden no one enjoys. Warren Township strives to prepare students, to the fullest extent possible, to live fully in the world-both the world of their student days and the one they will inhabit as adults. We are convinced that o...

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