Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Prosecution, truth and reconciliation and lustration are tools of justice that have been implemented in transitional societies. However, transitional justice is intricately intertwined with the state building projects of elites. Using comparative methods, this paper identifies some of the key dimensions of conflict and state building contexts that influenced transitional justice in post-Nazi Germany, post-communist Czech Republic and post-apartheid South Africa.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper argues that, while much of what is happening with some of the “Left” regimes in Latin America can only be characterized as alternative modernizations, there are more radical thoughts and practices emerging from the space of some social movement

Publication Type: Individual Paper
Abstract: In the latter quarter of the twentieth century the United States saw a significant increase in the number of its citizens incarcerated in prisons and jails. It is now the world�s leader in incarceration. By 2006 the rate of incarceration had increased to 751 inmates per 100,000 persons in the population, which was well ahead of the second place Russia, where the rate was 628 per 100,000 persons. Between 1880 and 1970, the state and federal prison population grew at a fairly consistent and negligible rate, reflecting little more than the growth in the general population. However, a real growth spurt occurred after 1970.
The incarceration rates were increasing dramatically at the same time that crime was decreasing. Two developments in criminal justice appear to be associated with the increased incarceration rates: (1) the so-called �war on drugs�; and (2) mandatory long-term sentencing.
African Americans were a large segment of this rapid increase in prisoners.
This rapid increase in the proportion of black prisoners occurred without an attendant rise in the commission of crimes and was disproportionate to the relative commission of crimes by blacks. It suggests a comparison to the situation in the South in the late nineteenth century. This review examines race and criminal justice in the United States in general and in Tennessee in particular during the late nineteenth, early twentieth, and late twentieth centuries.

Publication Type: Paper Proposal
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: There has been much discussion about the arrival of a post-civil rights, post-feminist future. This paper examines the relationship between melodrama and post-civil rights, post-feminist ideology in three narrative sites: Grey's Anatomy, Crash, and the 2008 Obama Presidential Campaign. I detail the competing definitions of multiculturalism represented in these contexts and explore their political implications from a Black feminist perspective.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: A study of Nietzsche's search for a basis for friendship after the death of God and the eclipse of the nation-state.