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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
Reform, Reform the Reforms or Simply Regression? The Washington Consensus' and its Critics
The 'Washington Consensus' analysis and policies are being disputed both analytically and for their effectiveness.This paper surveys first the debate on the definition of the 'Washington Consensus' vis-a-vis its apparent developmental shortcomings. Then it surveys the major areas where the 'Washington Consensus' isjudged as a failure (with articular
emphasis on the crises of the 1990s).In the next part it presents the main responses to the 'crisis' of the 'Washington Consensus'. Its supporters are categorised in tre fundamentalists and the reformists whereas its
opponents are divided in the post-Washington Consensus adherents and the Marxist critics. It is argued that the Marxist perspective offers a superior understanding and critique of the 'Washington Consensus'
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