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This article examines debates, scholarly studies, and literary representations of the phenomenon of racism in socialist Yugoslavia and Yugoslavs' relationship to whiteness in the 1960s and 70s. I argue that the persistent activism of black African students helped provoke official, scholarly, and public discussions about the thorny question of racism in Yugoslav society during this time. The salience of black students' accusations eventually made something that was taboo in the 1950s and early 1960s—namely, entertaining the prospect that anti-black racial prejudice existed in non-aligned, socialist, and anti-racist Yugoslavia—into an active subject of debate by the end of the decade. Importantly, the relative candidness with which academic studies and popular literature addressed racism indicates a reflexivity about "racial" questions on the part of socialist Yugoslav society, something that scholarship has largely neglected in favor of focusing on the suppression or elision of race and the inadequacy of state socialist responses to the problem of domestic expressions of prejudice.

A new structure for California education governance and funding, the Local Control Funding Formula, created fresh expectations for transparency, citizen engagement, and amplifying voices that have been previously marginalized. Changing these rules of the game has the potential to profoundly affect education policy decisions and normatively inform best practices for democratic governance. Drawing upon a mixed methods approach that included a survey instrument, document analysis, observation, and semi-structured interviews around the state capital and in four California school districts, I found some variance in the implementation of the new law. This has important implications for how California educates its future citizens. I observed wide ranging skill sets among district administrators in how they facilitated meetings, responded to proposals or criticism from the public, and made their communities feel heard. The kind of engagement opportunities district administrators create combined with how the community choses to be involved contributes to a district culture, which affects the conditions for future engagement.

THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'S BATTLE TO PUBLISH PRINCE CHARLES'S JOURNALS IS A STAND FOR PRESS FREEDOM