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Richard L. Florida (born 1957) is an American urban studies theorist focusing on social and economic theory. He is a professor at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto [ 1 ] and a Distinguished Fellow at NYU's School of Professional Studies .
Thomas R. Dye (born December 16, 1935) is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Florida State University and was formerly a McKenzie Professor of Government. Dye has described politics as being about who gets scarce governmental resources, where, when, why and how.
On the other side are Florida’s Black leaders and national civil rights activists like Al Sharpton. They vow to ignite voter energy and unleash a grassroots movement to remind people that ...
Harrison is the author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age, as well as the editor and contributor to Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights, African-American Pioneers of Anthropology (co-edited), and three editions of Decolonizing Anthropology: Moving Further Toward an ...
In June 2021, DeSantis led an effort to ban the teaching of critical race theory in Florida public schools (though it had not been part of Florida's public school curriculum). He described critical race theory as "teaching kids to hate their country", mirroring a similar push by conservatives nationally. [ 55 ]
Moran was trained as an environmental anthropologist, focusing on populations in the Amazon Basin experiencing dislocation through resettlement, particularly from highways and dams. He has been extremely critical of large hydroelectric dams as a method to generate power, given their inefficiencies and effects on local populations and ...
As the Florida Department of Education seeks proposals from textbook companies to provide social-studies materials to schools, it is making clear concepts such as critical race theory and social ...
Michael W. Warren is an American associate professor emeritus and forensic anthropologist, at the University of Florida.He formerly served as the William H. Garmany Term Professor of Human Rights & Social Justice in the Department of Anthropology, and as Assistant Director of the William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine.