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Race & Race Relations
| Summer 2010 | Vol:XIII-1 | Whole #: 49 |
Race and the Obama Era
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
It has been more than a year since Barack Obama was inaugurated as the first African- American president of the United States. Despite the obvious historic significance of his election, Obama’s actions to date make it very doubtful that his presidency will alleviate the persisting conditions of racism, discrimination, and general inequality that continue to shape the experience of most African-Americans in the United States.
| Winter 2004 | Vol:IX-4 | Whole #: 36 |
Affirmative Action -- 2003
Reginald Wilson
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| Winter 2005 | Vol:X-2 | Whole #: 38 |
What Happened to Brown? A Review Essay
Title: Three books on school integrationBy: Clotfelter; Cashin; and Ogletree Jr.
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Reviewed by Reginald Wilson
Winter 2005
Books reviewed in this essay
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
Charles Clotfelter
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004
216 pp. $24.95
The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream
Sheryll Cashin
New York: Public Affairs, 2004
320 pp. $26
Black Outrage in Los Angeles
Phyllis Jacobson
[This article appeared in New Politics no. 13, Summer 1992.]
The fire burning in South-Central Los Angeles illuminated the rage, anguish and despair of African-Americans consigned to bleak lives of poverty and hopelessness by the most "advanced" country in the world. But as history attests, once the rage subsides, the images, which should be unforgettable, are all too soon forgotten. The ghetto and those trapped inside it are once more invisible.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse
Stephen Steinberg
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We believe this article begins an important conversation on the left. We will be publishing various responses to it in our next issue, along with a reply from Stephen Steinberg. In addition, this article will be published in the Winter issue of New Labor Forum, together with a different set of responses and a reply from Steinberg. We urge readers to follow this debate in both venues. -- Eds. |
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
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Roundtable on Immigration and African Americans
Stephen Steinberg's "Immigration, African Americans and Race Discourse" in our last issue of New Politics (#39) elicited several responses. Here they are with Steinberg's rejoinder. Steinberg's article, together with a different set of responses and a reply from Steinberg, also appears in the Winter issue of New Labor Forum. We urge readers to follow this debate in both venues. - EDS.
Articles in the SymposiumThe Intra-Immigrant Dilemma, Alan Aja
Mobilizing Immigrants and Blacks, Peter Drucker
Alliances Needed, Ron Hayduk
Finger Pointing Toward "Freedom Now!" Michael Hirsch
Another American Dilemma, Gilbert Jonas
Reintroducing the Black/White Divide in Racial Discourse, Gregory D. Squires
Response, Stephen Steinberg
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Neoliberal Strategies to Defuse a Powder Keg in Europe: the "Decade of Roma Inclusion" and its Rationale
Bill Templer
Empire is characterized by the close proximity of extremely unequal populations, which creates a situation of permanent social danger and requires the powerful apparatuses of the society of control to ensure separation and guarantee the new management of social space.[1]
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Response
Stephen Steinberg
I knew when I wrote my piece that I was walking through a minefield of controversy, first of all because I challenge the dominant discourse on immigration and call into question many of the orthodoxies of a new generation of immigration scholars. I therefore came prepared to engage in verbal battle with outraged critics whose scholarship has been called into question. Alas, they did not show up at the table!
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Reintroducing the Black/White Divide in Racial Discourse
Gregory D. Squires
Does it matter that most of the problems that disproportionately affect black Americans don't stem from racism -- or at any rate, modern day racism? . . . These issues just aren't particularly black anymore. William Raspberry[1]
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Another American Dilemma: Race vs. Immigration
Gilbert Jonas
Ever since America's negro slaves were emancipated after the Civil War, our nation's generous immigration policies have worked against the interests and advancement of African Americans.