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
Left Coast Notes Left Coast Notes
After nearly two years' absence from politics, Southern California's most popular progressive politician, Antonio Villaraigosa, is back on the stump.
Feb 12, 2003 / Feature / Marc Cooper
Genet’s Palestinian Revolution Genet’s Palestinian Revolution
This essay will appear as an introduction in New York Review Books' new edition of Prisoner of Love (February 2003).
Feb 6, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Ahdaf Soueif
Class Warfare Class Warfare
My son collects my change--the random coins that come from little daily transactions, the pennies, nickels and dimes that build up in my pockets.
Jan 30, 2003 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun
Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook
Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age
In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.
Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael E. Staub