For Whom Does the Bell Toll: The Bell Tolls for Brown?

This review essay analyzes Derrick Bell\u27s provocative new book, Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004). In Silent Covenants, Professor Bell reviews Brown v. Board of Education, and inquires whether another approach than the one embraced by the Brown decision might have been more effective and less disruptive in the always-contentious racial arena. Specifically, Professor Bell joins black conservatives in critiquing what he describes as a misguided focus on achieving racial balance in schools and argues that the quality of education for minority children, in particular Blacks, would have been better today had the Supreme Court instead decided simply to enforce the equal component of the separate but equal doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson. In this book review, For Whom Does the Bell Toll: The Bell Tolls for Brown?, Professor Onwuachi-Willig recommends Professor Bell\u27s book as a thought-provoking critique of a decision that has been championed by persons of all races and ethnicities. Although agreeing with Bell\u27s interest-convergence theory, his thorough explanation of historical instances in which policymakers have sacrificed the rights of minorities in the United States, and his arguments concerning white resistance to integration, she disagrees with Professor Bell\u27s conclusion that enforcement of the separate but equal doctrine would have proved more effective than the strategy that civil rights lawyers employed in arriving at Brown. Overall, she argues that Bell\u27s approach to achieving such equality likely would have landed minorities in the same position as they are in today. In so doing, she details Bell\u27s explanation of the promise of Brown and the ways in which its failure is merely a continuation of the disregard for the rights of minorities (except when such rights coincide with the interests of Whites). She then demonstrates how Bell\u27s own interest-convergence theory does not support his criticism of Brown and his endorsement of the separate but equal strategy that he claims ultimately would have served minorities the best. Finally, she explores the potential for coalition building between minorities and poor Whites by examining recent events and occurrences surrounding the debate about the Texas Ten Percent Plan

Special interest groups and 4th best transport pricing

This paper is organized as follows. In order to explain the basic idea of 4th best pricing more fully the following Section 2 will sketch and discuss the above mentioned Laffont model, where it is shown that under certain conditions a uniform tariff may be preferable to an optional tariff because such a uniform tariff is less amenable to the influence of interest groups. Section 3 will illustrate Laffont?s insight with several examples from the transport sector. Section 4 will conclude. --

Bodies, sexualities and women leaders in popular culture: from spectacle to metapicture

Purpose – This paper focuses on visual representation of women leaders and how women leaders’ bodies and sexualities are rendered visible in particular ways. Design/methodology/approach – The arguments are based on a reading of the Danish television drama series, Borgen. The authors interpret the meaning of this text and consider what audiences might gain from watching it. Findings – The analysis of Borgen highlights the role of popular culture in resisting patriarchal values and enabling women to reclaim leadership. Originality/value – The metaphor of the spectacle enables explanation of the representation of women leaders in popular culture as passive, fetishised objects of the masculine gaze. These pervasive representational practices place considerable pressure on women leaders to manage their bodies and sexualities in particular ways. However, popular culture also provides alternative representations of women leaders as embodied and agentic. The notion of the metapicture offers a means of destabilising confining notions of female leadership within popular culture and opening up alternative

The Politics of Death:On Life after the ‘End of History'.

In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions. More specifically, the paper focuses on the debates sparked by Diane Pretty's request for a grant of immunity against legal prosecution if her husband were to assist her to commit suicide and so terminate her increasingly unbearable suffering from motor neurone disease. The aim of this exercise is to articulate the presuppositions informing two influential and radically opposed views on the contemporary reconfiguration of relationships between humans, animals and other non-humans

Time Enough - Consequences of Human Microchip Implantation

Dr. Ramesh argues that microchip implantation is both possible and, for some purposes, desirable and suggests that now is the time to consider strategies for preventing potentially grievous intrusion into personal privacy

Bertina Rae Olseth v. Matthew D. Larson : Brief of Appellee

ON CERTIFIED QUESTION OF UTAH STATE LAW FROM THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT On Appeal From An Order of the United States District Court for the District of Utah, Civil No. 2:02-CV-l 122PGC HONORABLE PAUL G. CASSEL

An Essay on the New Public Defender for the 21st Century

Funding for public defender services is woefully inadequate. Ogletree offers some anecdotal advice for public defenders and those designing public defender services