Introduction: Ethnicity and Justice

The ideal of social justice in the United States has its roots in both the Judeo-Christian and ancient Greek traditions. From the latter our notion of democracy as a just institution is derived. At the theoretical level, Plato attempted to define ideal justice in his Republic, but here we are not concerned with ideal justice. At the practical level, the Hebrew prophet Amos urged public officials to practice justice as enjoined by Moses and his predecessors. Some 2700 years later Martin Luther King, Jr., sought to combine these two senses of justice when he insisted that America can satisfy its democratic creed-that all men are created equal only when it allows justice to roll like water and righteousness like a mighty stream. Like the lonely prophet Amos, King was a voice for the toiling masses

[Review of] Tarharka. Black Manhood: The Building of Civilization by the Black Man of the Nile

In an ambitious effort to document the positive role that the black man has played throughout history, Tarharka has proposed a nontraditional interpretation of that role on the basis of extensive library research. As a result, he calls the credibility of most western scholars into question. Support of his thesis is offered by first reminding the reader that the earth\u27s original man was of Africa and how that man was responsible for initiating human culture and civilization

[Review of] Richard H. Thompson. Theories of Ethnicity: A Critical Appraisal

This work is a systematic attempt to identify certain major theories that govern our discourse and analyses of issues pertaining to ethnicity and race. Sociobiology, primordialism, assimilationism, world-system theory and neo-Marxism are among the theories included

Perturbative computations in string field theory

These notes describe how perturbative on-shell and off-shell string amplitudes can be computed using string field theory. Computational methods for approximating arbitrary amplitudes are discussed, and compared with standard world-sheet methods for computing on-shell amplitudes. These lecture notes are not self-contained; they contain the material from W. Taylor's TASI 2003 lectures not covered in the recently published ``TASI 2001'' notes {\tt hep-th/0311017} by Taylor and Zwiebach, and should be read as a supplement to those notes.Comment: 17 pages; 2003 TASI lecture notes, supplement to 2001 TASI lectures by Taylor and Zwiebac

Centerscope

Centerscope, formerly Scope, was published by the Boston University Medical Center "to communicate the concern of the Medical Center for the development and maintenance of improved health care in contemporary society.