Race Talk: Jameela, Justice, Jihad

Race and criminal-justice attitudes – 1 Running Head: RACE AND CRIMINAL-JUSTICE ATTITUDES Race and Support for the Criminal Justice System: A Matter of Asymmetry

Hizbullah’s Jihad Concept

This paper argues that Hizbullah’s jihad concept essentially derives from the underprivileged status of the Lebanese Shiite community at the time of the appearance of the party in the early 1980s. Although the ideology of Hizbullah and the articulation of its jihad concept borrowed heavily from ayatollah Khomeini’s doctrinal contributions to Shiism, Hizbullah has readily adapted itself to the n...

Race : It ’ s Time We Talk

“Race,” it’s such a simple word but a term that carries so much power and emotion. We hear the word every day in so many contexts but what is its’ significance? How did it come about? Many scholars argue that "race" was an evolutional invention, a folk idea, not a product of scientific research. It was created to justify the social and political realities of America’s history. Now it is embedde...

Race talk: the psychology of racial dialogues.

Constructive dialogues on race have been proposed as a means to heal racial and ethnic divides, reduce prejudice and misinformation, increase racial literacy, and foster improved race relations. Studies on the psychology of racial dialogues indicate social and academic norms that dictate against race talk between White Americans and persons of color: (a) the politeness protocol, (b) the academi...

Jihad vs . McWorld

Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible political figures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization of large swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization of national states in which culture is pitted against culture, people against people, tribe against tribe—a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowly conceived faiths against every...