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Institutional and State-Sanctioned Risks

The United States has pride itself in their progressive turn to address racism, however, they have done so without directly addressing the root cause in fundamental issues of race, gender, and sexu

Found image: 50 shades of Latinx

The United States adopted the term Latino in the 2000 U.S. Census. The term Latino means Latin and was created to refer to people who are from Latin America.

Created Image Artifact: Foregrounding technologies of control in Schools

Police in Government (1974) sought to teach black youths how to behave under the façade of U.S.

Created Image Artifact: Lynching of Mexicans in California

This image is was taken from Los Angeles Star, the first newspaper in Los Angeles, that covered the lynching of Pancho Daniel.

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FIRST RESPONDERS’ ENVIRONMENTAL LIABILITY DUE TO MASS DECONTAMINATION RUNOFF

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What is the policy and what does it aim to achieve?

The policy is to extend Good Samaritan laws to first responders so that they would not be liable for "spreading contamination while attempting to save lives."

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Miriam Ticktin is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at The New School For Social Research in New York City. Her research focuses on "what it means to make political claims in the name of a universal humanity" and more recently looks at humanitarianism at various levels. For emergency response her work focuses more on response done for humanitarian aid and displaced peoples.

http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/faculty/?id=4d54-6379-4e44-4d35