Matthew B. Platt
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Examining Senior Seminar and Curricular Reform at an HBCU
Faculty need a shared vision of curricular outcomes; that shared vision can and should be closely aligned with the mission of the department and college; and curriculum is more about student experiences than faculty intentions.
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Broadening the PhD Pipeline: A Summer Research Program for HBCU Students
Morehouse, Spelman, and UCSD have built a strong summer research and pipeline program.
Claire L. Adida
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David A. Lake
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Fatemeh Shafiei
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Hoodies on the Floor: Exploring Black Members' Legislative Response to Police Brutality
Congress – despite ever increasing numbers of black members – does not care about police brutality.
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The Paradox of Ambition
The rise of Ivy League-educated black politicians is the only potentially meaningful change in the nature of black representatives since 1947. However, the policy consequences of that change are ambiguous.
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Innovation, Inevitability, and Credibility: Tracking the Origins of Black Civil Rights Issues
This paper uses historical black newspapers to provide context for the development of four major civil rights issues – lynching, …
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An Examination of Black Representation and the Legacy of the Voting Rights Act
Fifty years after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there are still many questions about one of its signature achievements, …
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From GRID to gridlock: the relationship between scientific biomedical breakthroughs and HIV/AIDS policy in the US Congress
INTRODUCTION: From the travel ban on people living with HIV (PLHIV) to resistance to needle exchange programmes, there are many …
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Manu O. Platt
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Participation for What? A Policy-Motivated Approach to Political Activism
Normatively and intuitively, we conceive of political participation as an integral component of democratic policymaking. However, …
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