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Racial Disparities in Plea Bargaining in Dane County 2000-2006

November 26, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Plea bargaining, Wisconsin

A forthcoming research article,  (and now published)   by Carlos Berdejó a professor of Law at Loyola of Los Angeles who also has a PhD in economics, has documented racial disparities in the plea bargaining process in Dane County, Wisconsin (home of the University of Wisconsin – Madison) in the years 2000-2006.

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For Closing the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility

November 24, 2017 Pamela Oliver Community supervision, Criminal justice, Imprisonment, Revocations, Wisconsin

Activists in Wisconsin’s Close MSDF coalition  are focusing attention on the inhumane conditions in the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility (MSDF) and the problem of crimeless revocations that send people there.  The MSDF was built in 2001 to house people temporarily who had been accused of violating the terms of their

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Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panthers

October 19, 2017 Pamela Oliver Black Movement, Social Movements

NOTE: See Josh Bloom’s comments. Other comments are welcome. They are moderated to avoid spam and trolls, but serious engagement with the issues is welcomed. Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panthers, by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin, Jr., has received wide praise for its

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Student backgrounds

September 30, 2017 Pamela Oliver Talking and teaching about race

In a pre-class survey, I asked my students questions about their own racial/ethnic backgrounds and the types of places they have lived in.  Race first, where I grouped the “mixed” race answers for people who combined White with Latinx or Black into the minority group for this table. This course

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Race Names

September 16, 2017 Pamela Oliver Talking and teaching about race

When we teach race, we must have a vocabulary so we can talk about race. Students need to know which words are preferred, which are contested, which are now likely to offend but were never used as insults in their time, and which are unambiguous insults that should not be

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Preparing to Teach About Race

August 22, 2017 Pamela Oliver Talking and teaching about race

For nearly 30 years, I’ve taught  “Ethnic Movements in the US,” which takes a social movements approach to comparing the history and politics of American Indians, African Americans, Latinx Americans, and Asian Americans. This course meets the ethnic studies requirement and attracts both students who are actually interested in the

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Tactical Dilemmas in Resisting White Nationalists

August 20, 2017 Pamela Oliver Social Movements, White Nationalists

As a citizen and human being, I have watched the recent news coming out of Charlottesville with the same horror as many others have felt. White nationalists displaying Nazi symbols, brawling, and someone purposely driving a car into a crowd are all upsetting. As a scholar of social movements and

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Changes in White and Black imprisonment rates: poverty, education, type of place

July 19, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In my previous posts, I showed that White imprisonment has been growing more in rural areas than urban areas, and that this is tied to the fact that rural places are much more likely to have high poverty rates and low average educational levels. In this post, I follow up

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Education, Poverty, and Rural vs. Urban Incarceration Rates

July 14, 2017 Pamela Oliver Criminal justice, Imprisonment

In a previous post, I showed how the White imprisonment rate rose in rural counties even as the Black and White imprisonment rates in metropolitan areas fell. In this post, I show that the White rural-urban difference in imprisonment is linked to the White rural-urban difference in poverty and education,

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What the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Actually Says

July 12, 2017 Pamela Oliver Mexican Americans, US history

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transferred the northern half of Mexico to US control.* It is a central document in US history, as well as in Mexican history. The “Mexican cession” as it is somewhat euphemistically called, is central to the construction of the US nation. Forgetting the cession is

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