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“crime fighting” and repair and maintenance to establish a social norm
Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
faculty line up their intellectual loves with their desire to instill their particular vision of orthodoxy or their desire to form students in a theological radicalism that they believe will free us from the problems of orthodoxy.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
Wells was best known as a journalist for exposing the lies behind the justification for lynching. Negroes charged with recklessly eyeballing a White woman, or worse, were often people who had found prosperity and respect despite the constraints of Jim Crow. The lynchings put them back in their place. Wells nearly met a similar fate, but escaped as
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele as well as the article “The Matter of Black Lives” by Jelani Cobb, published in the New Yorker.
Dolly Chugh • The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias
The most surprising finding, however, was that the BTB policy substantially increased racial disparities in callbacks. White applicants to BTB-affected employers received 7 percent more callbacks than similar black applicants before BTB. After BTB, this gap grew to 43 percent. The reason was that without the actual information about convictions, th
... See moreEsther Duflo • Good Economics for Hard Times
One of the most robust findings in criminology is that increasing the severity of punishment has little deterrent effect. People simply aren’t as sensitive to the potential costs of crime as the rational-choice model predicts they should be, and so efforts to reduce it by cracking down have failed to justify the immense fiscal and social costs of m
... See moreIn addition to the danger of being labelled an enemy of social justice that comes with criticizing the methods of the Social Justice Movement, there are two other obstacles to effectively addressing them. First, the underlying values of Social Justice are so counterintuitive that they are difficult to understand. Second, few of us have ever had to
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