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4 Hastings Race & Poverty L.J. [i] (2006-2007)

handle is hein.journals/hasrapo4 and id is 1 raw text is: Table of Contents ARTICLES MEDICAL CIVIL RIGHTS: THE EXCLUSION OF PHYSICIANS OF COLOR FROM MANAGED CARE: BUSINESS OR BIAS? By Rene Bow ser .................................................................. 1 Historically, physicians of color experienced significant barriers in their continued assimilation into the health care profession. Although managed care organizations do not appear to purposefully discriminate against physicians of color, the selection criteria utilized by these networks coupled with underlying biases have resulted in a disproportionate exclusion of minority physicians. By analyzing the norms and practices of managed care organizations, the author highlights possible causes of this disparity. Additionally, after addressing the inadequacy of using current civil rights laws to redress discrimination in the medical market, the author offers several innovative local, state, and federal remedies as potential alternative avenues for relief. CIVIL CLAIMS FOR UNCIVILIZED ACTS: FILING SUIT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT FOR AMERICAN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL ABUSES By Andrea A . Curcio ...................................................... 45 This country's history is replete with evidence that the United States government deliberately caused the deaths of millions of American Indians. What is less well-known is the government's attempt to destroy the American Indian peoples by forcing generations of American Indian children to attend off-reservation boarding schools. In this article, Professor Curcio describes the use of government-run boarding schools as a way to destroy American Indian childrens' connections to their peoples, and ultimately, as a way to destroy the American Indian peoples. She discusses the schools' harsh and deadly living conditions and the schools' destructive impact upon generations of American Indians. She then examines American Indian boarding school survivors' potential legal claims against the United States government, including

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