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The debate over affirmative action has raged for over four decades,
with little give on either side. Most agree that it began as noble
effort to jump-start racial integration many believe it devolved
into a patently unfair system of quotas and concealment. Now, with
the Supreme Court set to rule on a case that could sharply curtail
the use of racial preferences in American universities, law
professor Richard Sander and legal journalist Stuart Taylor offer a
definitive account of what affirmative action has become, showing
that while the objective is laudable, the effects have been
anything but.Sander and Taylor have long admired affirmative
action's original goals, but after many years of studying racial
preferences, they have reached a controversial but undeniable
conclusion: that preferences hurt underrepresented minorities far
more than they help them. At the heart of affirmative action's
failure is a simple phenomenon called mismatch. Using dramatic new
data and numerous interviews with affected former students and
university officials of colour, the authors show how racial
preferences often put students in competition with far
better-prepared classmates, dooming many to fall so far behind that
they can never catch up. Mismatch largely explains why, even though
black applicants are more likely to enter college than whites with
similar backgrounds, they are far less likely to finish why there
are so few black and Hispanic professionals with science and
engineering degrees and doctorates why black law graduates fail bar
exams at four times the rate of whites and why universities accept
relatively affluent minorities over working class and poor people
of all races.Sander and Taylor believe it is possible to achieve
the goal of racial equality in higher education, but they argue
that alternative policies,such as full public disclosure of all
preferential admission policies, a focused commitment to improving
socioeconomic diversity on campuses, outreach to minority
communities, and a renewed focus on K-12 schooling ,will go farther
in achieving that goal than preferences, while also allowing
applicants to make informed decisions. Bold, controversial, and
deeply researched, Mismatch calls for a renewed examination of this
most divisive of social programs,and for reforms that will help
realize the ultimate goal of racial equality.
Canadians are proud of their multicultural image both at home and
abroad. But that image isn't grounded in historical facts. As
recently as the 1960s, the Canadian government enforced
discriminatory, anti-Black immigration policies, designed to
restrict and prohibit the entry of Black Barbadians and Black West
Indians. The Canadian state capitalized on the public's fear of the
"Black unknown" and racist stereotypes to justify their exclusion.
In Flying Fish in the Great White North, Christopher Stuart Taylor
utilizes the intersectionality of race, gender and class to
challenge the perception that Blacks were simply victims of racist
and discriminatory Canadian and international immigration policies
by emphasizing the agency and educational capital of Black
Barbadian emigrants during this period. In fact, many Barbadians
were middle to upper class and were well educated, and many,
particularly women, found autonomous agency and challenged the very
Canadian immigration policies designed to exclude them.
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Finders Keepers (DVD)
Siv Ngesi, Tyrel Meyer, Clayton Evertson, Dalin Oliver, Neels Van Jaarsveld, …
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Lonnie Cabot is a down-on-his-luck night-club cleaner without any friends. Well, he believes he has befriended club patron Brian Bekker, a manic depressive who is in love with dancer Sonja.
Lonnie’s life is flipped upside down after finding a box containing a watch and a wad of cash, hidden in a toilet and Brian convincing him to bet the cash on a horse race. What he does not know is that his Russian boss is trafficking diamonds in the walls of the box and is desperate to find his loot. Meanwhile, local gang leader Jackie Jardine is looking for his son’s murderer, and he believes Lonnie is the culprit.
As they cannot retrieve the cash from the bookies, Lonnie and Brian steal a valuable lucky fish in order to repay the debt to the Russian mob.
Ancient legends tell of an almost forgotten civilization possessing
flying fighting machines, vast armies, and a source of limitless
free energy called Vril. In the middle of the twentieth century two
rival submarines from warring nations in our world raced to find
the lost continent of Atlantis and the source of Vril. One nation
aimed to secure world domination, the other sought to preserve
world freedom. Neither submarine was seen again until the present
day when one of them is discovered in a secret subterranean dock
and caught suddenly in the world's energy-hungry gaze. In a bid to
stop the secrets of Atlantis from destroying mankind in the present
day, the sub escapes its secret moorings for a perilous return
voyage to Atlantis. Here in "Austin and the Lost Kingdom of
Atlantis" - the sequel to "Austin and the Secret of Karnak House" -
school friends Bill Young and Toby Wishman, Bill's heartthrob
Lulabell Singer (Lu), and their arch enemy Stu Briggs, find
themselves trapped together aboard the Professor's ancient and
leaky submarine on a perilous undersea adventure to try to find and
rescue the Professor's long-lost son, Rudi, and destroy the deadly
secrets of Atlantis once and for all.
This book is the sequel to "Austin" and the foundation stone for
"Austin and the Lost Kingdom of Atlantis." Intended for readers
over nine to adult, this classic adventure story is set in the
present day and the Second World War. The gripping plot deals with
spies, secret codes, and Austin's career in the Secret Service as
part of a mysterious expedition to Atlantis to harness an awesome
mystic force, known only to the ancients of Atlantis, which can
both heal and destroy. The story glimpses a time when computer
development was in its infancy, where mechanical computers look set
to prevail, and where the horrific consequences of racial
persecution are made real to young readers.
Austin is a wreck He's overgrown with weeds and brambles and lives
at the back of Farmer Oats' old barn behind the rickety stone wall.
Vole, Hedgehog and the Blackbird family shelter inside him and when
the old stone wall collapses and Austin is sent by the greedy
farmer to Butcher's scrapyard, the animals are all made homeless
and put in terrible danger of being eaten alive by Marmaduke the
evil farmyard tomcat. If this wasn't bad enough, when Austin is
towed away to be thrown into the Giant Steam Crusher, the baby
Blackbird Twins are trapped inside him Will the farmyard animals
find the man in the village who does up old cars to rescue Austin
before Marmaduke makes a meal of them? Will Austin and the
Blackbird babies be squished inside the crusher's greedy jaws? The
rollercoaster twists and turns and humour of this thrilling
adventure story make 'Austin' a non-stop, page turner for both kids
and grown-ups alike
"A masterful examination of the pathetic rush to judgment in the
Duke rape case." --John Grisham
The full story of the Duke Lacrosse case, by the authors who broke
it
In this American tragedy, Stuart Taylor, Jr., and KC Johnson
argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased
journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to
pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men,
recklessly tarnishing their lives.
"Until Proven Innocent "is the only book that covers all five
aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and
media) in a comprehensive fashion. It is also the only book to
include interviews with all three of the defendants, their
families, and their legal teams. And now it includes an up-to-date
epilogue detailing the aftershocks and conclusion of the
case.
Taylor and Johnson's coverage of the Duke case was the earliest,
most honest, and most comprehensive in the country, and here they
take on the idiocies and dishonesty of right- and left-wingers
alike, shedding new light on the danger of a cultural tendency
toward media-fueled travesties of justice. The context of the Duke
case has vast import, and in its full telling, it is captivating
nonfiction with broad political, racial, and cultural relevance to
our times.
"Taylor and Johnson have made a gripping contribution to the
literature of the wrongly accused." --"The New York Times Book
Review
"""Until Proven Innocent" is a stunning book." --"The Wall Street
Journal
""Vivid, at times chilling . . . their most biting scorn is aimed
at the 'academic McCarthyism' that they say has infected top-rate
American universities like Duke." --"Newsweek
""A superb new book . . . a book that not only reads like a legal
thriller, but also exposes deep problems with America's legal
system and academic culture." --"The Economist"
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