Racism and Discrimination

Just a Needle-Stick Away Just a Needle-Stick Away

In New Mexico, communists who fail to register their party affiliation with the state commit a felony. Under New Mexico's DNA databanking law, if they are caught they are require...

Nov 10, 2000 / Feature / Jonathan Kimmelman

Now Set the Teeth… Now Set the Teeth…

Afew days before the election, I accompanied a friend to the dentist's office. It was one of those situations in which appearance takes over more complex realities of who we are....

Nov 10, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Misidentity Politics Misidentity Politics

The high point of liberal faith that the color line might be permanently breached may have been the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. From a participant's perspectiv...

Oct 19, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Stanley Aronowitz

No Defense No Defense

How the New York Times convicted Wen Ho Lee.

Oct 5, 2000 / Feature / Robert Scheer

North of the Border North of the Border

One of the most haunting images in David Riker's film La Ciudad is of the New York City skyline seen from a work site miles away from midtown. There, a group of Hispanic dayworke...

Sep 28, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Michael Ugarte

Color and the Court Color and the Court

The project of racial reconciliation and historical correction is "constitutional" in the deepest, multiple senses of that word.

Sep 25, 2000 / Feature / Christopher Edley Jr.

Selma Is Still Selma Selma Is Still Selma

Selma, Alabama, a touchstone in the civil rights movement, is frozen in a way that confounds onlookers.

Sep 7, 2000 / Amy Bach

Gato and Alex–No Safe Place Gato and Alex–No Safe Place

This is the story of Gato and Alex, two Salvadorans who as children became refugees from America's war in their homeland only to become rivals in America's gang war on the street...

Jun 22, 2000 / Feature / Tom Hayden

Affirmative Retraction Affirmative Retraction

A century ago, as America made clear its retreat from the egalitarian gains of Reconstruction, two powerful voices set out differing agendas for how black Americans should respon...

Jun 15, 2000 / Books & the Arts / Philip A. Klinkner

Little House in the ‘Hood Little House in the ‘Hood

I was wandering around Harlem recently, late on a warm Sunday afternoon: I saw Dominican families chatting on stoops. I saw African-American families walking home from church.

Jun 1, 2000 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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