Three Essays on Race and Politics

Three Essays on Race and Politics

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This volume includes papers originally discussed at the symposium, “A Changing Cuba in a Changing World” (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, March, 2008). The conference featured a wide range of scholars and panelists working on contemporary Cuba (Appendix). The essays in this collection explore various aspects of change in today’s Cuba, including politics and economics, history,...

Social Darwinism in Nazi Family and Inheritance Law

Editor’s Note Ellis Washington, DePauw University; B.M. 1983, University of Michigan; M.M. 1986, John Marshall Law School; J.D. 1994. He was a staff editor for the University of Michigan Law Review in 1989, and a law clerk for the Rutherford Institute in 1992. Washington is a co-host on the conservative radio show, Joshua’s Trial, heard Saturdays on www.WDTKam.com. Since 2007 he has been a law ...

On the Temporal Order of First-Passage Times in One-Dimensional Lattice Random Walks

A random walk problem with particles on discrete double infinite linear grids is discussed. The model is based on the work of Montroll and others. A probability connected with the problem is given in the form of integrals containing modified Bessel functions of the first kind. By using several transformations simpler integrals are obtained from which for two and three particles asymptotic appro...

Dylan Riley

The essays in The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences contribute to a historical and comparative sociology of social science by systematically comparing the rises, falls, and absences of ‘‘methodological positivism’’ across the human sciences. Although all of the essays are of extremely high quality, three contributions develop the argument most fully: George Steinmetz’s introduction and W...