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School Choice as a Civil Right: The Political Construction of a Claim and Its Implications for School Desegregation
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Janelle Scott
Published: 15 November 2011
... of school choice, (2) legal jurisprudence combined with the expansion of the suburbs and the subsequent race and social class isolation of many large urban school districts, and (3) the significant support of philanthropists on the expansion of charter school reform. African Americans Charter schools...
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Juvenilia & Apprenticeship (A Brief Interlude)
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Gene H. Bell-Villada
Published: 01 January 2010
...In this chapter, García Márquez the apprentice and young writer is examined. The early Gabo writes mostly of death and isolation, of souls and bodies trapped in graves and dreams, much different from the Gabo who wrote his revered novel. A morose and brooding García Márquez is seen in his stories...
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Starting out
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Steven M. Stowe
Published: 18 October 2004
... practitioners' anxieties about class, rural isolation, first patients, first failures, and conflicts with established doctors in the community. The chapter argues that many new practitioners were unwilling to let go of their schooled habits despite the risks of being isolated from others by their exotic...
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Introduction
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Julia Gaffield
Published: 26 October 2015
...The introduction highlights the current scholarly emphasis on non-recognition and isolation in the decades following Haitian independence but reveals that primary source research calls this claim into question. The introduction also shows how these sources shed light on debates and applications...
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Isolation and Rethinking
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Susan M. Reverby
Published: 08 June 2020
...Rather than be corrected or seek penitence, Berkman used his prison time to write to his friends, comrades and family, and to rethink his political trajectory. Often in isolation, and moved around without notice, he tried to figure out how to do his time, make a life and escape the incompetence...
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Mud Tax
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Rob Christensen
Published: 13 May 2019
... Better Roads Magazine Chatham Thurmond North Carolina Museum of Art Hunt Jim Jr Pou Bailey James H birth rates deaths on roads living index of N C ports Ports Authority of North Carolina U S Maritime Commission Wilmington N C Kerr Scott road building unpaved roads mud tax rural isolation...
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I Put Fear in the Hearts of Those Who Engage in this Trade: French Efforts to Isolate Haiti in the Atlantic World
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Julia Gaffield
Published: 26 October 2015
...The most important challenge that Haiti faced was the continued opposition of France, Chapter 1 addresses why France was unable to convince foreign powers to isolate Haiti. It focuses on the efforts of three French officials in Danish St. Thomas and Dutch Curaçao to persuade the governors of those...
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The Path to Pelican Bay: The Origins of the Supermax Prison in the Shadow of the Law, 1982–1989
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Keramet Reiter
Published: 27 May 2019
... to fears over mounting prison uprisings, gang strife and racial violence, and prisoners’ rights lawsuits by redesigning the prison scheme to arrive at their “solution” of architectural cell isolation. In contrast to the top-down federal narrative of mass incarceration, this chapter reveals...
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Legally Viable Desegregation Strategies: The Case of Connecticut
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Casey D. Cobb and others
Published: 15 November 2011
...This chapter examines the effects of two school choice programs—the interdistrict magnet schools and Open Choice—on racial, ethnic and economic isolation, individual student experiences and attitudes, and academic achievement. These programs are focused on reducing the racial and economic isolation...
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Published: 20 December 2013
... had had outside help was legitimate because it was common knowledge that their isolation would otherwise prevent them from accessing the “august temple of Justice.” Oliva Agustina Oliva Luis Oliva María de las Nieves Oliva María Fabiana Oliva Ramona freedom purchased by Rural slavery and sale...
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Published: 19 October 2020
... of the population. Working populations thus had to exercise their new-found sovereignty in isolation and began creating a counter-plantation system that compensated for Haiti’s isolation from capitalist investment and production. Yet the even as the Haitian oligarchs used the same models of imperial culture...
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A Feeling
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Grace Sanders Johnson
Published: 11 April 2023
...This chapter is a dwelling space that attends to Haitian women organizers’ uncertainty and melancholy regarding their role as leaders and the efficacy of the movement. Using letters between organizers that recounted the isolation and mundanity of their political lives, the women’s correspondences...