By john a powell (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The New America Media poll on racial and ethnic attitudes between Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans is both very important and subject to many of the limitations that we have experienced in the past when striving to talk openly about the attitudes and positions of different racial and ethnic groups in the … [Read more...] about “‘Minority’ is a Problem Concept” by john a. powell (May-June 2008 P&R Issue)
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“No One Even Knows What Integration Is” by John Woodford (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By John Woodford (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Our struggle is about desegregation and justice, including recompensatory and reparative measures to make up for past systematic handicapping of our socioeconomic and political rights and privileges. The goal is not and should not be termed as “integration.” No one even knows what that is. It can’t be measured … [Read more...] about “No One Even Knows What Integration Is” by John Woodford (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure” by Howard Winant (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Howard Winant (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) If Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown are correct that the elimination of Jim Crow did not really occur, then what did happen in the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights era? By the Color of Our Skin sounds quite familiar, perhaps because there isn’t anything really new here. Many academics and activists have made … [Read more...] about “Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure” by Howard Winant (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“Scapegoating” by Maxine Waters (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
By Maxine Waters (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) ...This [California anti-affirmative action] initiative is a product of a climate that has nothing to do with affirmative action per se. Unemployment is still high in California. Many manufacturing jobs have fled to Third World countries in search of cheap labor. We've been buffeted by fires and floods and … [Read more...] about “Scapegoating” by Maxine Waters (May-June 1995 P&R Issue)
Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
There is a growing sense within the minority community that the condition of African Americans has not improved and, worse still, that it will not get any better. An increasing number of minority thinkers voice this sentiment. Indeed one scholar, whom I greatly respect, has not only stated that racism is a permanent fixture on the American landscape, but that equality itself … [Read more...] about Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
