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How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?
Education & Development

How do we explain racial disproportionality in the criminal justice systems in the US and England and Wales?

...attention on internal police culture’, and this is where reforms efforts were mounted. Souhami (2014) argues that the concept of institutional racism as defined through the Macpherson Report and the subsequent reform efforts it mobilised within police forces in the UK, failed to influence and direct attention to institutional dynamics that may be perpetuating racism....
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The American Civil Rights Movement
History & The Arts

The American Civil Rights Movement

...attention and captured the public imagination. Together with the anti-Vietnam War movement and the counterculture, the civil rights movement has become part of the popular memory of the 1960s, helping to characterise the decade as a period of rapid transformation and upheaval. But how successful, ultimately, was this struggle for racial equality? Was it a radical,...
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Marco Rubio wins by coming in third
Society, Politics & Law

Marco Rubio wins by coming in third

...attention, Rubio still took a while to emerge as the best alternative to Trump’s bombast and Cruz’s knack with fiscal and social conservatives. He’s still an outsider in the New Hampshire primary, but another solid showing will put him in position to rally the political endorsements and to raise the big money he needs for the important contests that begin in March....
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What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?
Languages

What is the Golem Effect - and how does it harm bilingual students?

...attention, this is not true of student bilingualism. A Belgian study recently published in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (Pulinx et al. 2015) raises precisely this question: how are teacher attitudes towards linguistic diversity related to the expectations they hold of their students? While the study does not actually go on to examine a...
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Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen
History & The Arts

Songs of Love and Hate: On Leonard Cohen

...attention. Throughout his work, Cohen specialized in troubled father-son relationships. His most famous song, ‘Hallelujah’, begins with the paternal relationship between the psalmist King David and the father God he pleases with his ‘secret chord’. Consider ‘Story of Isaac’, from Songs from a Room (1969). This is a pointed retelling of the story from Genesis....
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Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: Politics is awash with large emotions... isn't it?

...attentive to the different, intersecting or even contradictory moods that flow around contemporary politics? Even if we could achieve such studies of how people feel about their lives and the world in which they live them, there are still a couple of other problems for social scientists to confront. One is the problem of time: Have people only just begun to have feelings?...
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Even the homeless can have a 'home'
Society, Politics & Law

Even the homeless can have a 'home'

...attention to the city centre. In Liverpool, rough sleepers, street drinkers and any other groups identified as “uncivilised” impediments to regeneration were singled out and subjected to a range of punitive measures, including the criminalisation of street drinking and begging, designed to clear them from view. It was all part of the bid to present the city as...
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How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein
History & The Arts

How technology can challenge our understanding of Frankenstein

...attention to textual phenomena that deserves further investigation. What insights can we then gain if we read Frankenstein with the help of Voyant Tools, a free suite of online text analysis tools created by Stéfan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell? [Frankenstein word cloud] A word cloud showing the most frequently used words that appear in Mary Shelley's Gothic novel The...
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