tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post2634266975753665516..comments2024-03-18T22:21:33.261-07:00Comments on The Debate Link: Bleg: "Conservative" Scholarship on Racism in AmericaDavid Schraubhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-11346077619211624032011-03-15T13:53:18.687-07:002011-03-15T13:53:18.687-07:00If you want a book by an actual conservative (and ...If you want a book by an actual conservative (and an actual legal scholar) on the failures of integration, I'd recommend Stuart Buck's recent "Acting White."<br /><br />However, my stronger recommendation would be for Wechsler's 1959 lecture "Toward Neutral Principles of Constitutional Law," which is constantly cited by conservative critics of Brown v. Board, and his much lesser-known 1967 lecture "The Nationalization of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights."<br /><br />For more suggestions, try the horse's mouth: http://www.fed-soc.org/resources/id.543/default.aspPGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-86468057380751244772011-03-15T06:16:35.558-07:002011-03-15T06:16:35.558-07:00David,
I have a partial suggestion. I suggest you ...David,<br />I have a partial suggestion. I suggest you ask Jeremy Pierce, blogging at Parableman. He's an evangelical philosophy Grad student in NY with a practical interest in race matters.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10837999838469082203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-6454115626395397372011-03-14T16:41:01.759-07:002011-03-14T16:41:01.759-07:00I'm going to be about as helpful as Julia (onl...I'm going to be about as helpful as Julia (only without the promise of sending a syllabus is the next year).<br /><br />But if you want to include a bit of institutional theory about how laws get interpreted and enacted I recommend <a href="http://asr.sagepub.com/content/71/4/589.abstract" rel="nofollow">Kalev, A., Dobbin, F., & Kelly, E. (2006). Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies. American Sociological Review, 71(4), 589 -617. doi:10.1177/000312240607100404</a>.<br /><br />(I read your post while procrastinating on my institutions final. Gotta feel connected to something, right?)Sarah Cannonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14334790599525148331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-33790715422954587822011-03-14T14:45:42.261-07:002011-03-14T14:45:42.261-07:00No, but I always suspected.
With respect to the e...No, but I always suspected.<br /><br />With respect to the earth rotating around the sun, might I recommend Ghostface Killah?<br /><br /><i>The sun could never be a punk. He always come out. He'll sit right there. Even if you pull your gun out. He could never run out--when the lights go out, it's Japan's turn now. The earth has spun around.</i>David Schraubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04946653376744012423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-32403651839052989212011-03-14T14:39:46.212-07:002011-03-14T14:39:46.212-07:00I have no suggestions, but I'd love to see you...I have no suggestions, but I'd love to see your syllabus when it's done! I could also share the syllabus for the intro astronomy course I'm teaching this summer, but unfortunately it will probably be far less interesting (did you the moon goes around the Earth??)Julianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7321349.post-73043240355613404482011-03-14T14:06:32.634-07:002011-03-14T14:06:32.634-07:00I would think that if you want your students to le...I would think that if you want your students to learn something, have them read a few book about the success - or, perhaps, lack thereof - at the effort to desegregate the South. I have in mind, for example, <i>White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism</i>, by Kevin Kruse. Kruse, as you perhaps are aware, is a liberal but his book is very honest and very well explains the failure of policy so that one might understand where conservatives are coming from.<br /><br />My view is that it is very difficult to understand the "other side's" views from law review articles. Kruse's work is, to note, first rate and is accepted as good scholarship by people on all sides of the debate.<br /><br />Moreover, without some actual historical background to provide context for the debate at hand, students are going to have no concrete situation to discuss. So, you will have conservatives say one thing and liberals another, with neither side really understanding the basis in experience over which they are debating. That is pretty much the state of public debate in the US but, as a professor, your goal ought to be to inform, not merely to expose people to the arguments - which is pretty much all that can appear in a law review article (due to space problems).<br /><br />I shall try to think of some other important works of scholarship that might be helpful, assuming that you want to teach, not merely expose kids to law review articles.N. Friedmannoreply@blogger.com