Lee Sherman Dreyfus

A professor of speech and communications, Dreyfus is best known for resigning from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (and resigning as chancellor at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point) to run for the governor's seat. He won. A Republican, Dreyfus was famous for jabbing at liberals in the state capital: "Madison is 30 square miles surrounded by reality," he once said. But he knew politics wasn't black and white, and surprised his party by being the first governor to sign a gay rights law. The 1982 measure made discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation illegal. He explained that the law fit well into his understanding of his party: "It is a fundamental tenet of the Republican Party that government ought not intrude in the private lives of individuals where no state purpose is served, and there is nothing more private or intimate than who you live with and who you love." Dreyfus chose not to run for reelection, preferring to go back into private life. He died at home on January 2 after suffering heart and lung problems. He was 81. From This is True for 30 December 2007 Suggestions for further reading: From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law (Inaliena... by Martha C. Nussbaum Amazon Price: $14.93 Customer Review: The first half of the title neatly sums up Nussbaum's central argument regarding public opinion and public policy as it relates to the LGBT community, same-sex relations and their push for legal redress though the courts and the legislative process. ...   Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men by John A. Rich MD MPH Amazon Price: $16.47 Customer Review: John Rich's book Wrong Place, Wrong Time, is a very human, passionate, a realistic portrait of economically oppressed African American youth living in urban settings. Dr. Rich has written this vitally important book as a journey for him and for the ...   Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson Amazon Price: $25.03 Customer Review: Johnson neuters any actual insight he might have effectively instilled in his readers by writing in generalizations. In writing the universal he uses the particular as examples in unfair and inaccurate representations of truth. Moreover, his actual w...   Race, Class, and Gender: An Anthology by Margaret L. Andersen, Patricia Hill Collins Amazon Price: $92.95 Customer Review: I needed this book for a course in my MSW program, but found it to be very enlightening, and a great reference source in practice.   Kill Them Before They Grow: Misdiagnosis of African American Boys in American... by Michael Porter Amazon Price: $8.76 Customer Review: I read the entire book in 2 days which means it did not say much to make me think. It reads really easy because it says the same thing over and over, albeit with different words. In essence White culture is not appropriate for our Black youth and the...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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