The Roberts two-step. He takes racism, a system of subjugation and social control, and removes the racists. What’s left is the mark of racism - race. A landmark case about the legitimacy of race hierarchy becomes, the use of race in school placement.
Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return to Separate and UnEqual; Child Labor; Remembering Pat Fry; Museums that Remember Slavery; Culture Wars Against Education Archive; Ending Climate and Nuclear Crises; lots of Announcements; Cartoons; more....
In the 1940s, a series of books tried to use the conventions of detective fiction to expose the degree of prejudice in postwar America. Their books — along with Sinatra’s song and film; Richard Wright’s memoir, coincided with a surge of activism.
Repression breeds resistance in the West Bank, Guatemala, France and Myanmar
Wrought iron process that drove British industrial revolution success and colonialism was appropriated from black metallurgists, historical records now suggest.
Reader Comments: Supreme Court: Return to Confederacy and Privilege; Voting Does Matter; Readers Respond to Elbaum, Gallagher and Feffer; Cartoons; Resources; Announcements; more; ....
The resignations came after Golden Valley, Minnesota hired its first Black police chief to begin addressing issues of racial profiling.
How an “undeserving” kid like me
got admitted to Stanford
A feel-good HGTV show sweeps a Southern town’s racist past, and gentrified present, under the rug.
The Supreme Court ruled race-based college admissions are unlawful, ending affirmative action programs at colleges. In her dissent, Supreme Court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson pulled no punches calling the ruling “let-them-eat-cake obliviousness.”
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