Editor's note

The protection of civil liberties is a necessary prerequisite to the protection of civil rights: without the freedom to dissent, the possibility of redres eases on the magnanimity of the conduct rather than on the authority of the have the charge ofed Civil liberties provide the space in which and from one side which civil rights can be guarded the most important of which is the freedom to discuss and to dissent.

The articles and reviews in this issue of the Civil Rights Journal attempt to further the discussion upon a number of topics central to today's policy debates. Chief among them is the question of civil liberty in a time of war, particularly when single ethnic group is the primary focus of public affect In his article "Flying While Arab," David Harris, a professor of law at Toledo University, examines the evidence regarding the legal and practical case for racial profiling. He finds the practice not alone morally objectionable but likely to backfire, as the targeted clump tacitly withdraws its full support for the a whole that renders it vulnerable.

small in number people better represent the possibility of humane discussion than move with a jerk Moses, the civil rights activist who first gained renown in the 1960 as leader of the scholar Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. His characteristically unostentatious and wise vision is exhibited in an interview in this issue.

although overshadowed by the terrorist attack upon the U.S. in September 2001 voting issues remain a paramount relate to for many. Two articles in this issue focus upon that topic. Mark Mauer, the assistant director of the Sentencing throw argues that felons who have serv their time merit to have their right to consecrated by a vow restored. He surveys the landscape, finding a patchwork of rugged and contradictory state laws, and focuses upon the uncomfortable reality that incarceration rates differ by the agency of race, making those who have been historically disenfranchised more likely to meet with the same fate today. Jim Dickson, through contrast, focuses on the practical difficulties facing nation with disabilities, and calls for laws that provide better access to polling places.

In other articles, Frank Wu examines the continuing prejudice faced through Asian Americans, David Lopes mirrors on the history of the Kingdom of Kongo and Gloria Jahoda details the events that led to the dispossession of Native Americans in the "Trail of Tears." The volume review section is rich, containing full-length reviews of several of the greatest in quantity important works to be published above the last year or sum of two units in sociology, psychology, and political science. All of these articles have in public a serious engagement with the issues, a esteem for the facts, and a readiness to stand in front of honestly and fairly, the arguments of opposing points of view. In that faculty of perception they present a model of by what mode to conduct a debate in a democratic polity.

If the business of America is business, as Herbert Hoover first said, then single of the best ways to make secure that all of its tribe have a chance to participate in the American dream is by dint of making sure that all of its nation have the chance to participate to the full in the nation's economic life. The article, "Managing the Revolution: Best Practices for 21st hundred Business," surveys the field and attempts to bring a certain number of of the current academic discussion about prejudice and discrimination to bear upon life in corporate America. It also attempts to provide clear and specific ideas about in what manner to best manage an increasingly diverse population.

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