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Guest Column by Dorothy Roberts and Charles L. Howard | Help us reimagine Public Safety in our community

(09/10/20 10:46pm)

This summer has been marked by unprecedented protests against police violence across the nation and around the world. The assaults on George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake, and so many other unarmed Black people by police officers have directed public attention towards the enduring realities of systemic racism in our society yet again. Trying times like these offer powerful opportunities for reflection and transformation. Calls for change can open our minds to rethinking existing structures and systems and can push us away from the inadequate responses of the past. 

https://www.thedp.com/article/2020/09/upenn-racism-ivy-league-police-brutality-philadelphia

Guest Column by five Penn Law professors | Notions of 'bourgeois' cultural superiority are based on bad history

(08/20/17 11:24pm)

In the recent opinion article “Paying the price for breakdown of the country's bourgeois culture,” published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, law professors Amy Wax and Larry Alexander lament the loss of the “bourgeois cultural hegemony” of the 1950s. They claim that erosion of commitment to marriage, hard work, patriotism, civic-mindedness and respect for authority has produced low male labor force participation, high rates of nonmarital childbearing, subpar educational attainment, an underqualified workforce, substance abuse and rampant urban violence. The downward spiral started in the late 1960s, they argue, with “identity politics” and “multicultural grievance polemics.”

https://www.thedp.com/article/2017/08/guest-column-bourgeois-bad-history

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