{"product_id":"9780986085369","title":"Preserving HBCUs' Billion Dollar Legacy: International Law, Self-Determination and the Right to Institutions","description":"HBCUs represent the historic United States institutionalization of African American higher education. While during the Civil\u003cbr\u003e Rights period, the United States did remove de jure segregation and replace it with equality before the law, it nonetheless continued to recognize and fund HBCUs as an African American entitlement, in keeping with the desires of the African American people and their organizations. This is also in keeping with\u003cbr\u003e African Americans' international minority right to institutions. \u003cp\u003eHBCUs have played a significant role in the training of African\u003cbr\u003e American professional sectors and in the economic viability of\u003cbr\u003e African American communities where they are situated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, recent US government policies undertaken without consultation with African American \/ HBCU leadership have disproportionately impacted the survival of these institutions.\u003cbr\u003e Supreme Court decisions have also played a negative role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book represents IHRAAM efforts from 2014-2015\u003cbr\u003e to contextualize the struggle to save HBCUs within the context of the international minority right to institutions, and to stimulate debate and discussion within the HBCU and African American community as well as within government and the international community as to the value and applicability of international norms when seeking to resolve the ongoing disproportionately negative standing of African Americans in social indicators measuring well being-despite their having achieved de jure civil rights for nearly half a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To that end, on July 14, 2014, IHRAAM sponsored (along with cosponsors 100 Black Men of Atlanta and Iota Phi Theta of\u003cbr\u003e Baltimore) a seminar on Empowering HBCUs and International\u003cbr\u003e Human Rights, again with a view to stimulating debate within the concerned communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn September 14, 2014, IHRAAM submitted an Alternative Report to the United Nations Human Rights Council, scheduled to conduct its regularly scheduled 2015 Universal Periodic Review of the United States as it relates to human rights on May 11, 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn May 7, 2015, immediately preceding it, IHRAAM delegates presented a side-session at the UN Palais des Nations titled\u003cbr\u003e \"Empowering Black Colleges: International Law, African\u003cbr\u003e American Development and Self-Determination.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn July 20, 2015, IHRAAM representatives were invited to\u003cbr\u003e Washington by the U.S. State Department\/Department of\u003cbr\u003e Education to participate in a Town Hall Session on the issues raised in the US UPR related to education. At that meeting,\u003cbr\u003e IHRAAM's project for the establishment of a quasi-governmental body, the Office of HBCU Development and International\u003cbr\u003e Cooperation (OHBCUD) was presented.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book includes the above-mentioned primary documents projected by IHRAAM, as well as capturing the thinking of persons outside of IHRAAM, all of whom seek to save and empower HBCUs, and represent their own positions.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Clarity Press, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091397644528,"sku":"9780986085369","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780986085369","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}