Race and Ethnicity

Black Unlike Me Black Unlike Me

Historians have made much of the ways that the social protest movements of the 1960s unsettled the morals of the dominant culture, but it is often forgotten that activists themselv...

Jun 27, 2002 / Books & the Arts / John McMillian

Jewish Media Stranglehold? Jewish Media Stranglehold?

Nixon thought so; Otis Chandler doesn't. Maybe it depends on where you stand.

Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Cliff Rothman

Affirmative Action Reaction Affirmative Action Reaction

Affirmative action, while generally a good and necessary thing, has always been more complicated than its supporters admit. It inspires a backlash; it often promotes people who...

Jun 13, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman

Letter From London Letter From London

A specter is haunting the Jews of Europe: the specter of anti-Semitism. A synagogue is firebombed in Belgium; three more are burned in France, where Jean-Marie Le Pen's National F...

Jun 13, 2002 / D.D. Guttenplan

We’ve Had Enough Witch Hunts We’ve Had Enough Witch Hunts

Nothing succeeds like failure.

Jun 4, 2002 / Column / Robert Scheer

The Browning of America The Browning of America

In the past two decades, Richard Rodriguez has offered us a gamut of anecdotes, mostly about himself in action in an environment that is not always attuned to his own inner life. ...

May 30, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Ilan Stavans

Racial Privacy Racial Privacy

Ward Connerly, figurehead for California's anti-affirmative action Proposition 209, is up to more mischief. This time it's a push to prevent California's public agencies from cl...

May 30, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Yaqui Way of Knowledge Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Although Chicano identity has been Luis Valdez's theme since all but the earliest years of El Teatro Campesino, the guerrilla theater he founded in the 1960s, getting a clear sens...

May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Hal Gelb

Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’ Israel and ‘Anti-Semitism’

Right in the wake of House majority leader Dick Armey's explicit call for several million Palestinians to be booted out of the West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, c...

May 16, 2002 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

The Big Chill The Big Chill

Fear still haunts the Arab and Muslim communities of Southern California.

May 16, 2002 / Feature / Marc Cooper

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