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In this essay, the author explores the absurdity of colorblind rhetoric within the discursive field of Kobe Bryant's rape trial. Specifically, in examining articulations on the Internet, television coverage, commentaries, and news reports, this article reveals how colorblind ideologies that dominate public discussions conflict with the racialized discursive utterances surrounding Kobe's arrest and ongoing trial. In exploring the reactions to accusations of rape against Kobe Bryant by both the mainstream media and White nationalists, this article repels the tendency to disassociate mainstream discourses surrounding race and sports from the more racially grotesque versions found among White nationalists. This article interrogates the context, text, and subtext of the racialized/gendered discourse of Kobe Bryant, situating this case study within the larger dynamics of racialized sports celebrity. It asks whether status as a celebrity athlete provides racial erasure and whether accusations of criminal misconduct not only reinscribe race but also erase celebrity.

ABSTRACTThis article reviews a number of critical issues in the structural reform of animal health services in Africa. Using the New Institutional Economics, it highlights several problems that others concerned with the privatization of this service area have tended to neglect. Most notably it calls attention to: (1) the need to retain a central role for paraprofessionals in the new delivery system; (2) the desirability of competition between the veterinary and para‐veterinary professions; (3) the importance of developing state contracting procedures for assisting the private delivery of animal health that will avoid the problems of local monopoly; and (4) the central role that new and strengthened professional associations will have to play in this area if collective goods and the public interest are to be served. The article's larger purpose is to demonstrate that the New Institutional Economics has a great deal to contribute to the older precepts of neo‐classical economics in anticipating and thinking through the fundamental changes that privatization of professional services in Africa are posing. In this sense it is a first step in a larger programme of empirical and theoretical research.

Üblicherweise wird über Mängel und Schwächen des Managements afrikanischer Staatsunternehmen geklagt. In dieser Studie werden vier erfolgreiche Gegenbeispiele untersucht. Leben, Karriere und politisches Umfeld wurden auf der Basis einer Vielzahl von Interviews untersucht. Gründe des Erfolgs sind die Sicherung der Autonomie ihrer Unternehmen durch enge politische Kontakte, verbunden mit der Fähigkeit, Ressourcen durch internationale Quellen zu mobilisieren sowie persönliche Fähigkeiten der Personalplanung und Menschenführung. (DÜI-Wsl)

The school gym is a polling place, and Bailey, Ren, David, Meg, Aiden, and Isabella know all about Election Day and voting! Bailey helped her Aunt Julia run for a seat on the city council. Aiden goes with his grandpa to vote. David's brother Jake will be voting for the first time. Meg talks about how, years ago, some citizens were not permitted to vote. A perfect picture book for future voters of America, Today on Election Day will simultaneously entertain and educate.

Developments in Cuba's healthcare system, infant mortality rate (IMR) trends, and commitment to universal healthcare have been examined by past research. Nevertheless, reductions of spatial inequality in human resources for health (HRH) distribution and IMR have received less attention. Drawing on Cuban Ministry of Health data, we examine changes in HRH distribution by personnel type and inequality in IMRs among Cuban provinces over time, emphasising the period since 1990. We contrast these with global, OECD, and developing country HRH distributions. Our research shows declining inequality in HRH and IMR across provinces in Cuba. A longitudinal data analysis of IMR shows that IMR decreases significantly as physician density increases within provinces. Within a global context of high between and within country disparities Cuba's experience is salient given high levels of spatial inequality prior to 1959 and material resource scarcity during the 'special period' of the 1990s.