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Introduction. I. The Pathogenesis of Obesity: History, Etiology, and The Social Epidemic. A. The Gay Nineties and the Portly Trencherman: A Brief History of American Perceptions of Obesity. B. A Shocking Pandemic: The Epidemiology of Obesity. 1. A Global Crisis: The Scourge of the Developed World. 2. The Inversely Proportional Relationship of Income and Obesity. 3. The Mammy Complex: The Cultural Anachronism of Obesity and Race. C. Obesity and the Genomic Model: Surfeit, Shortage, and the Impetus of Culture. 1. What Watson and Crick Never Saw Coming: When the Double Helix Leads to Double XL. II. The Conduct That America Loves to Hate: State and Federal Panaceas for the Obesity Epidemic. A. Obesity and Economics: The Market Failure Paradigm. B. The Evolution of the Nanny State: Federal M...
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A Hypothetical: I. Modern Civil Rights Litigation: Is There Anything Left? II. A Dialectic Tale Of The Demise Of Civil Rights Law III. What Does It Mean? The Paradox Of Civil Rights Law IV. The Symposium's Take On The Questions
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OKLAHOMA CITY - As she watched a television broadcast of President Barack Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists' struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation's first black president. This is our day," she said at the time, calling his inauguration the "fulfillment of dreams of people.
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According to Caro, the Western Democrats traded their votes on civil rights for a dam authorization on the IdahoOregon border. [...] it was Eisenhower who broke the Democrats' hold on the South*in 1952, and if anyone was appealing to bigots that year, it wasn't Eisenhower. By contrast, segregationist Democrats routinely criticized the exercise of federal power and expenditure of federal funds when it involved ending discrimination against blacks ? but gladly accepted federal pork projects for their states.
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The now-86-year-old [Vivian] said that one thing is as true about Blacks now as it was decades ago when he was in McComb and Peoria, Illinois and then on to Nashville, Tenn.: "We don't know our power. We have seen the rise of a prophet in [Martin Luther King Jr.]. There has been no Christian churchmen in the world that has come close to Martin and it was not done through an institution, it was done by his strategy," Vivian said of King's affinity for pushing non-violence while demanding racial justice. "Once a people get freedom, they must, it is a necessity, it is necessary that they are totally educated," the soft-spoken Baptist minister said emphatically. He pointed to the current academic disparities between Black and white students, saying if the achievement gap is not closed "we...
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OKLAHOMA CITY - As she watched a television broadcast of President Obama's inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists' struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation's first black president. This is our day," she said at the time, calling his inauguration the "fulfillment of dreams of people.
