Working for the segregationist establishment

Article Abstract:

While teaching race relations at Florida State University, the author was asked by Florida Attorney General Richard Ervin to direct a sociological study for a brief to be submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court in response to its ruling on Brown versus the Board of Education. The author confronted political realities influencing the research design and use of the findings. He also heard criticism of the brief and his role in it from liberals and segregationists alike. The author was further disillusioned by the response to the court's decision that desegregation should occur 'with all deliberate speed', especially when Ervin compromised his position to win re-election, and when a follow-up study was conducted in the same way as the initial one. In reflecting on his experience, the author expresses concern that, despite his principles and intentions, his efforts may have actually delayed desegregation. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Social aspects, Cases, Discrimination, United States. Supreme Court, Segregation, Segregation in education, Autobiography

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General medical and complementary practitioners working together: the epistemological demands of collaboration

Article Abstract:

A developmental framework is used to explore the process of collaboration between general and complementary medical practitioners in the British National Health Service, using conversations from a co-operative inquiry. It is argued that the conversations through the inquiry show the practitioner's increasing capacity to work across diverse paradigmatic frames and strongly suggests that multidisciplinary collaboration is a matter of epistemology as well as of interpersonal competence and group development. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Management, Case studies, Practice, Physicians, Medical professions, Health facilities, United Kingdom. National Health Service, Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology, Medical cooperation, Health facility affiliations

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Race

Article Abstract:

A study traces the concept of race to the quest for the origins of language and the manner in which that led to the idea that a separate language indicated a separate racial origin. The Orientalist desire to know and dominate the other and to regard him or her as sub-human necessitated the invention of race, a notion that can be further traced through the slave trade and its contemporary usage in 'race studies'.

Orientalism, Cultural studies

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