Following widespread sentencing reforms, such as the adoption of federal and state sentencing guidelines, researchers have continued to examine the complex role of race in the sentencing process. ... For instance, there are 3,042 black male inmates per 100,000 black males in the United States, compared to 1,261 Hispanic male inmates per 100,000 Hispanic males, and 487 white male inmates per 100,000 white males (BJS, 2007). ... They concluded, after taking into account legally relevant variables such as defendant criminal history and offense seriousness, that Black and Hispanic defendants were...

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Faced with the emergence and reemergence of internal conflict, state elites in South Africa and the United States found the crutch of exclusion was too large if a benefit to ignore. ... As stated by Schraeder, one of "two important developments" contributed to pressures for change US foreign Policy toward south Africa during the late 1950s was firstly, a growing civil rights movement striving for the political equality of African Americans ensured greater official attention to the issues of race in both domestic and international policies...Reverend Martin Luther King led a demonstration on D...

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It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. ... Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. ... Few in this country would argue with the fact that the United States criminal justice system possesses discrepancies, which adversely affect Blacks in this country. ... Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within ...

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Historians date this event in the period between the First World War and the crash of the stock market of 1929 . ... Claude McKay` s poetry of 1917 presents some of the most important pieces of the Harlem Renaissance as well. ... All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. ... ; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. ......

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It is a measure of how sorely his achievements are misunderstood that most of them are located in black neighborhoods. ... King's Challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States. ... Its victory was so complete that event through those outrages took place within the living memory of the baby boomers, they seem like ancient history. ... Eisenhower forced the state to obey the law by sending in army paratroopers and the Arkansas National Guard to protect the students. ...

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The United States of America has a relatively short-lived history in comparison to the majority of the vast societies of the world. ... We pride ourselves on looking back through our history books and reading about how our forefathers have continuously stood up to the most powerful, unjust, and tyrannical nations so that the world may be able to experience the fore granted notion of freedom. ... This paper will serve as a bridge between the two main arguments in the respective books and compare and contrast the lessons found within their text to the ideology of some of the most affluent civil ...

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"(Stasio) However, despite this presumed irrelevance in the 21st century, the book is still banned in a number of schools and prisons across the southern United States. There are different reasons stated for the permanent or temporary removal of "A Time to Kill" from the libraries; when asked about the book banning in his home state of Mississippi, John Grisham himself assumed that it was because of the "graphic rape scene" in the first chapter. ... Most white protagonists, however, are working in white-collar jobs. ... "(Report of The Sentencing Project to the U...

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