Race and Ethnicity

‘Anti-Semitism,’ Israel and the Left ‘Anti-Semitism,’ Israel and the Left

Who's really behind the crude equation between Israel and "the Jews"?

Apr 17, 2003 / Feature / Philip Green

Democracy Tested Democracy Tested

The US military was deployed, the Bush Administration tells us, to bring democracy to Iraq. But the military brass and the Administration have apparently parted company on what...

Apr 17, 2003 / Lani Guinier

Diversity and Its Malcontents Diversity and Its Malcontents

David L. Kirp has chronicled the Mount Laurel, New Jersey, history in Almost Home: America's Love-Hate Relationship with Community (Princeton).

Apr 3, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Kirp

Assault on Diversity Assault on Diversity

On April 1 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases on whether to overturn the 1978 Bakke decision and ban consideration ...

Mar 31, 2003 / Feature / Alfred Ross and Lee Cokorinos

On White Preferences On White Preferences

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases on April 1.

Mar 27, 2003 / Jay Rosner

Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes

Almost a thousand boisterous supporters--most of them unionized Latino service workers--showed up on March 4 at the vote-counting and subsequent victory party for new City Counci...

Mar 13, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper

Slumming Toward Academia Slumming Toward Academia

Only the joy of capitalist expectation could move a pre-Reagan-born American to utter the line "civil rights is dead," let alone write a book devoted to that proposition.

Feb 27, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Armond White

Corporate Bill for Slavery Corporate Bill for Slavery

On February 26 for the first time a judge will make substantive and procedural rulings on a probable eight lawsuits that are at the cutting edge of the movement to compensate A...

Feb 20, 2003 / John S. Friedman

What’s a Neoliberal to Do? What’s a Neoliberal to Do?

In the 1960s it seemed as if the Third World was in flames, fueled by anti-imperialist struggles from Cuba to Vietnam, Bolivia to Algeria.

Feb 20, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Greg Grandin

Back to Segregation Back to Segregation

Sit in classrooms, eat in lunchrooms, romp on playgrounds and wander the hallways in randomly selected public schools in America: It's right here, in the nation's increasingly ...

Feb 13, 2003 / Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton

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