online archive
4:00PM
SEP 18 2007
With all deliberate speed
Beth Van Schaack (Santa Clara): With All Deliberate Speed: Civil Human Rights Litigation as a Tool for Social Change. A review of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson. Zoltan Hajnal (UCSD) and Taeku Lee (Harvard): When and Why Do African Americans Not Identify as Democrats? Jonathan Chait on the reactionary Congressional Black Caucus. There's a new generation of African American political leaders, and they aren't confining their careers to black districts — they're calling for race-blind, not race-based, policies. They don't sound like Jesse Jackson, but then, they came of age in a different (though it's not clear how different) America.
