Politics

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  • Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: Battles Over Segregated Recreation Shaped Civil Rights Movement
    8/23/12
    Victoria W. Wolcott, PhD, associate professor of history at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, is the author of a new book in which she exposes the legacy of segregated recreation in American cities after World War II. The book, "Race, Riots and Roller Coasters: The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America," out this month from the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Pennsylvania Press, continues Wolcott's research on the African-American experience in the 20th-century urban North.
  • Real to Reel: Ancient Greece and Rome in the Movies
    8/16/12
    Was "Spartacus" an anti-fascist polemic? Does "Agora" demonstrate the horrors of anti-science religious zealotry? Did the Trojans really dress only in blue and white outfits? Quiz: Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor in un-credited roles plus 32,000 costumes. The answers are yes, yes, no and "Quo Vadis."
  • UB Anthropology Professor Authors Book on Texas Immigrants
    8/9/12
    Deborah Reed-Danahay, professor of anthropology at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, has recently co-authored her second book with Caroline B. Brettell, a professor of anthropology at Southern Methodist ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½.
  • New Documentary by UB's Miller Sheds Light on Attica and the Human Costs to Workers, Inmates in Maximum-Security Prisons
    8/8/12
    The scene looks normal -- a father kicking a soccer ball to his children, rubbing their heads in playful affection. The iconic towers and fence in the background tell the real story.
  • Legal Scholar Says Romney "Absolutely Legally Responsible for Bain Capital After 1999"
    8/2/12
    "Mitt Romney absolutely was legally responsible for the actions of Bain Capital after he 'retired' from the company in 1999 to run the Utah Olympics," says David Westbrook, JD, a legal scholar and recognized voice in corporate, contract and international law.
  • 'Hitler at Home' -- A Study in the Politics of Domestic Aesthetics
    7/30/12
    Architectural historian Despina Stratigakos, an award-winning scholar of modern German architecture, is at work on the first in-depth study of the aesthetic and ideological constructions of the "domestic" Adolf Hitler and the uses to which they were put by propagandists of the Third Reich.
  • UB Family Medicine Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court Decision
    6/28/12
    The Supreme Court's decision to uphold much of the Affordable Care Act will not only provide as many as 30 million or more uninsured Americans with healthcare coverage, it may also help foster changes that will "right-size" the healthcare system in some important and long overdue ways, says Tom Rosenthal, MD, chair of the Department of Family Medicine in the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.
  • UB Law School Health Care Expert Available to Discuss Supreme Court Ruling on Obama Health Care Plan
    6/28/12
    The long-awaited Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's signature health care law upholds much of the act's intentions to expand coverage, with one major exception, says a ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Law School professor who is an expert on health care.
  • UB Expert Available to Speak on Supreme Court Ruling on Immigration
    6/25/12
    The U.S. Supreme Court has taken the "remarkable" step and upheld the single most controversial provision of the Arizona immigration law, giving law enforcement officials the right to verify immigration status of anyone reasonably suspected to be an unauthorized immigrant, according to Rick T. Su, an expert on immigration law and associate professor at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Law School.
  • 8th Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storyteller's Conference to be Held March 23-24
    3/9/12
    Colonizing settlers will be under the microscope March 23-24, when the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Graduate Students Association in American Studies presents "Challenging Settler Colonialism," the 8th Annual Indigenous and American Storyteller's Conference.