Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations

CSRRR packs house to discuss Trayvon Martin case
AT CLOSE RANGE: UF Scholars Analyze the Curious Case of Trayvon Martin.
Also, New York Times visual op-ed columnist Charles Blow.
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In the News
The Saudi Marathon Man
Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, April 17 2013
A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,”
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Supreme Court conflicted about what law dictates for Baby Veronica
Robert Barnes, Washington Post, April 16, 2013
Supreme Court justices appeared deeply conflicted Tuesday as they considered the fate of Baby Veronica, whose adoptive parents were ordered to return her to the Native American father who once gave up rights to his biological daughter but now has embraced parenthood.
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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Baby Veronica Custody Case
Indian Country Today Media Network, April 16, 2013
Today the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the highly publicized case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl.
More commonly known as the “Baby Veronica” case, it concerns 3-and-a-half-year-old Veronica, born in Oklahoma in 2009 to Christina Maldonado, a non-Native Hispanic woman, and Dusten Brown, an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation. Prior to Veronica’s birth, and without Brown’s consent, Maldonado arranged for their daughter to be adopted by a non-Native couple.Continue Reading
Don't Mythologize Christopher Dorner
Charles M. Blow, New York Times, February 16, 2013
I am no stranger to people’s glomming on to deadly criminals and celebrating them as heroes. Bonnie and Clyde were killed just south of the town where I grew up. There was that movie made about the couple, as well as a musical and more songs that I can count. And every year the town celebrates the duo and their killing with a festival and a shootout.
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Schools Push a Curriculum of Propaganda
Washington Post, April 3, 2013

The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R’s — formerly reading, ’riting and ’rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling. Especially racism. Consider Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction. It evidently considers “instruction” synonymous with “propaganda,” which in the patois of progressivism is called “consciousness-raising.”


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Scottsboro Boys pardon bill approved by Alabama Legislature
Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser, April 5, 2013
The Alabama House of Representatives Thursday morning gave unanimous approval to a bill that would allow posthumous pardons of the Scottsboro Boys, nine black teenagers who were falsely accused of raping two white women in 1931.
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Mission Statement
The CSRRR is committed to de-stigmatizing race. With the objective of fostering communities of dialogue, the Center embraces historically and empirically based thinking, talking, teaching, and writing on race. To this end, the Center creates and supports programs designed to enhance race-related curriculum development for faculty, staff and students in collegiate and professional schools. Of the five U.S. law schools with race centers, the CSRRR is uniquely focused on curriculum development.

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