Answered Questions

QUESTION: State "hate crime" statutes and verbal aggression.

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[Note: I'm submitting this question on behalf of an attendee of the Mid Atlantic Radical Bookfair. I have ideas about how to answer it but it's been a while since I've done legal searching and I know there are experts out there! Contact me with questions and I'll forward them to the asker.]

How many states presently have "hate crime" statutes? Of these, how many cover verbal forms of aggression (e.g., name calling)?

QUESTION: Posting an Announcement (was SAA Student Scholarship)

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[I have e mailed Jenna Friedman about posting this scholarship announcement to the Radical Reference listserv and she said it would be fine. I am not sure if this is the correct way of posting this announcement. Thank you].

QUESTION: Alternative Youth Culture in Nazi Germany

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I'm looking for sources on the edelweiss piraten, a youth group that tried to create an alternative to the Hitler Youth, and i'm also looking for any youth groups or actions in nazi germany that were confronting nazism with the actions of their everyday lives, thanks!

QUESTION: deportation

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looking to find deportation records of activists that came here cuba in the early 1900's.. joined mexican group in los angeles in 1913 .. i am not sure if they stayed here or were deported. would like to find out what happened.. maybe they have children.. is it possible to find them as well??
the name of family is:

Blanca de Moncaleano, her husband is Juan Francisco de Moncaleano

thanks very much

lina devito

QUESTION: apartheid - plural form?

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Dear RR:

What is the plural form of "apartheid?" I rarely hear it used in anything but the singular (near always referring to the South African system) which among other things obscures the existence of numerous systems of apartheid, now and historically.

Thanks so much
Jocelyn

QUESTION: alternative encyclopedias

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Can you suggest some alternative encyclopedias, of any subject, which would be good general sources?

QUESTION: First Nation core collection

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Do you know of any resources that provide a general list of "core items" for a reference collection in a First Nation library? The Public Library Catalogue will probably not do the trick. Thanks for your help!

QUESTION: illigal immigrants

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is thare a possible way for undocumanted immigrants want to get education via online or by any certain collages

QUESTION: Social Justice in Florida

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Hello -

I am looking for resources that will help me identify trends (say over a 5-10 year period) in social, economic and environmental justice in Florida. Other than the U.S. Census, are there resources or research institutes that you could recommend? I am also looking for data on trends (Florida) in privatization and gentrification, to the extent that it is available.

QUESTION: prison lawsuit from 1970s

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Follow-up question to the last one about Carol Crooks and a 1974 court decision.

What is the original suit that Crooks v. Warne references (or appeals)?