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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results85 Connexions Library2 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 4 Sources Library 2 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryThe All-American Skin Game Crouch, Stanley Book 1995 Crouch firmly believes that Blacks, having catalyzed the historical struggle of Americans to realize democratic ideals, have at least as much responsibility to maintain them as other groups, and he is... Asian American Activism Stirring: Against The Current vol. 91 Kurashige, Scott Article 2001 For a brief but wonderful moment in 2000, the Ralph Nader/Winona LaDuke Presidential campaign drew widespread public attention to its central theme of restoring democracy by challenging corporate powe... Beyond a Boundary  James, C.L.R. Book 1963 Part memoir of a boyhood in a black colony (by one of the founders of African nationalism), part passionate celebration of the game of cricket, this book raises serious questions about race, class, po... Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics Marable, Manning Book 1995 Marable argues for a new "transformationalist" approach in which there is an emergence of a new black cultural identity which also includes all the poor and exploited in united struggle against oppres... The Black Infinity Complex Bell, Shamell Article 2015 We're a group of UCLA grad students, and our vision of the Black Infinity Complex is inspired by the boundlessness and sustainability of Black creativity and imagination. It's a collective of organize... Black Reconstruction: An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880 Du Bois, W.E.B. Book 1935 On the role of black Americans during reconstruction. Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story De Felitta, Raymond Film/Video 2012 In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine... Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Putnam, Robert D. Book 2000 Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the... "Calm Reflection" or Justice? Figueroa, Meleiza Article 2013 Afterthoughts on Justice and racism after the movie Fruitvale Station. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 Simons, H.J.; Simons, R.E. Book 1969 A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist pri... Coming Home to the Struggle: Against The Current vol. 134 Thompson, Wendy Article 2008 I became a political activist at the age of 12, when I marched for open housing in Evanston, Illinois. We lived next to the Black community in Evanston; African-American students made up 40% of my gra... Connexions: Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage Serial Publication (Periodical) 1978 Connexions: Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Serial Publication (Periodical) 1979 Connexions: Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain Serial Publication (Periodical) 1981 Connexions: Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Serial Publication (Periodical) 1984 Connexions: Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change Serial Publication (Periodical) 1986 Connexions Digest: Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1990 Connexions Digest: Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1991 Connexions Digest: Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Serial Publication (Periodical) 1992 Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity. The Crisis of Color and Democracy Marable, Manning Book 1992 Essays attacking racist sterotypes and cynical arguments which America's national leaders use to obscure both the roots of today's social problems and their solutions. The Elephant in the Room: Against The Current vol. 136 Miah, Malik Article 2008 Much of the world is fascinated by the U.S. presidential election. The main reason is that the country may be ready to do something that most developed countries wouldn’t consider: electing a represen... Filtering People: Understanding and Confronting Our Prejudices Cole, Jim (with a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu) Book 1990 A tool for workshops, courses and personal reflection to identify our prejudices and learn how to overcome them so that we can see each other as we are in all our diversity. From Ferguson to Baltimore Hansford, Justin Article 2015 Combined with racial profiling, combined with the practice of predatory profiling and predatory policing, police departments are using parking and traffic tickets as a revenue base to increase their b... From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much Reed, Adolph Jr. Article 2015 As is ever clearer and ever more important to note, race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression ... Tim Hector: A Caribbean Radical's Story Buhle, Paul Book 2006 An account of the life of Antiguan activist Tim Hector. The History of Costa Rica Molina, Ivan; Palmer, Steven Book 1998 An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose." In a Time of Torment Stone, I.F. Book 1968 Independent journalist I.F. Stone on the events and issues of the 1960s. An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s Frost, Jennifer Article 2001 Israel's Struggle Within: Against The Current vol. 113 Finkel, David Article 2004 ATC interviews Uri Davis. The Making of Jericho Road: Against The Current vol. 132 Williams, Charles Article 2008 An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008. Malcolm X Speaks X. Malcolm; edited and with prefatory notes by George Breitman Book 1965 A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965. Media Think Winter, James Book 2000 Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diver... Moral Appeals Aren't Enough Kelley, Robin D. G. Article 2015 The wonderful thing about Black Lives Matter is that they're saying you cannot use moral suasion to win this. You've got to disrupt, and make sure that things don't work in order to make the demand fo... Moral Panic: Biopolitics Rising Fekete, John Book 1994 Biopolitics, politics based on the grievances of sex and race, is said to distort facts especially with respect to violence against women. The Movement Comes to Jena: Against The Current vol. 131 Dubinsky, Joanna Article 2007 The humid air felt electric as the sun ascended over the hundreds of buses idling a 20-mile stretch of Louisiana Route 49, the gateway to the rural hometown of the Jena 6. It was 6 AM, September 20, 2... The Movement Has a History Abdullah, Melina Article 2015 I was born in the '70s in East Oakland. All of our parents are Panthers, or Black Power organizers, or organizers. We come out politicized. Organizing to Stop Police Brutality in Riverside, California: Organizing for Accountability: Against The Current vol. 83 Feeley, Dianne; Finkel, David Article 1999 interview with Chani Beeman. Chani Beeman is co-chair of the Riverside Coalition for Police Accountability, whose principles and mission statement can be found at their website (www.ucr. edu/ethnomus/... The Other Kapuscinski, Ryszard Book 2009 The Other is made up of a series of lectures that Kapuscinski delivered in Austria and in Poland, eloquent speeches in which he considers the history, the present and the future of our relationship wi... Our Movement Is Global: an interview with Alice Ragland Ragland, Alice Article 2015 Against the Current interviewed Alice Ragland, who has been central to organizing Black youth in Cleveland against the police murder of Tamir Rice, the 12-year old shot to death two seconds after the ... Patrick Buchanan's Ezola Virus: Against The Current vol. 89 Bandhauer, Carina Article 2000 Amidst all the turmoil of the Reform Party this summer, Pat Buchanan named Ezola Foster as his running mate for his third bid at the presidency. For a man who has openly questioned the holocaust, and ... Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South: An Interview with Historian Keri Lindley, Robin Article 2017 Historian Keri Leigh Merritt presents a comprehensive study of this malignant and overlooked aspect of slavery in her new book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridg... Practicing Hope: He's Just 17 Vermilya, Shelley Article 2014 It seems like teachers want to do the right thing and, along with most white people, they don’t want to say the wrong thing about race (or class or LGBT or adoption or disabilities) so they just don’t... The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many Chomsky, Noam Book 1993 a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day. Race, Class & the Apartheid State Wolpe, Harold Book 1990 The rise of mass political opposition has put in question all the major issues of social change-relationship of race and class, challenges to apartheid in the economy and the nature of the state. Race and Class in Civil War Mississippi Spritzler, John Article 2009 The poor whites of Mississippi who fought the Confederacy alongside slaves did so because of working class values that they shared with slaves. The fact that poor whites may have believed some racist ... Race and Class: Paris to New Orleans: Against The Current vol. 120 Miah, Malik Article 2006 It turns out that the city of lights and city of jazz have a lot in common. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and militant explosions in the suburbs of Paris expose the underbelly of racism and class... Race, class and police murder in America Article 2016 In the aftermath of the mass shooting of police officers in Dallas, Texas on July 7, 2016, the American media and political establishment has sought to portray the police killings of unarmed people an... Race and Class: The Wealth Gap: Against The Current vol. 88 Miah, Malik Article 2000 Politicians and government officials point to the historic low unemployment level in the Black community as signs of a strong economy and a future where whites and African Americans will finally have ... Race and Class: What the Jena 6 Case Shows: Against The Current vol. 131 Miah, Malik Article 2007 Some 50,000 people converged on the small Louisiana town of Jena on September 20. The protest shook up not only the two-stoplight town but sent a loud siren across the country. The 85% white populatio... Racial Liberalism: The Case of Interwar Detroit Miller, Karen R. Article 2016 The paradox at the heart of contemporary racial politics is what sociologists and political scientists call "colorblind racism:" How is it that the United States is a country where racism is supposed ... Racism and Responsibility: Against The Current vol. 133 Fish, George Article 2008 Malik Miah writes in Against the Current 131, “[Orlando] Patterson, and others in Black academia and middle-class civil rights organizations, are right to point to internal problems within the Black c... Racist Outrage at UMass-Amherst: Against The Current vol. 114 Napalitano, Jeffrey; Leiblum, Mishy; Sered, Barak; Luce, Stephanie Article 2005 Over the past decade, students around the country have fought a conservative backlash on college campuses that has sought to reverse many gains won in the 1970s and 1980s. Along with attacks on labor... Racist Undercurrents in the "War on Terror": Against The Current vol. 125 Miah, Malik Article 2006 Although it is rarely mentioned in the so-called war on terrorism, racism is an undercurrent in every action and decision taken by the Bush-Cheney government. It is a dangerous element that has long-... Reflections After Ferguson Hansman, Bob Article 2015 I am a white man with a Black son. I did not have or get him young and fill his head with illusions of diversity and colorblindness, the way some white parents do. I met him when he was a young teen, ... Religion and the Rise of Labor and Black Detroit: Against The Current vol. 134 Higbee, Mark Article 2008 Historians and other scholars have given Detroit plentiful attention, including some very important books, yet in this vital new study Angela Dillard manages to approach the Motor City’s past in sever... Response to George Fish: Against The Current vol. 133 Miah, Malik Article 2008 George Fish raises an important point about the “taking personal responsibility” debate taking place within the Black community, especially at the academic and leadership level. But his criticism of m... SNCC: The New Abolitionists Zinn, Howard Book 1964 An account of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Socialist Register 2003: Volume 39: Fighting Identities Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin (eds.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2003 South Africa's Political Change: Against The Current vol. 90 Bond, Patrick Article 2001 On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support... Stanley Crouch, Neocon or Ellisonian? Robinson, Greg Article 1997 Crouch clearly feels isolated within progressive circles, but it is the Left that most desperately needs to retain the message about building a cohesive democratic society. With that instinct for impr... Still Got the News: Against The Current vol. 84 Esch, Betsy Article 2000 As a student activist at the University of Michigan in the middle and late 1980s, I was part of a coalition of activists who planned and carried out a democratic takeover of our school's newspaper, Th... Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate Malik, Kenan Book 2008 Malik makes the case that most anti-racists accept the belief, also held by racialists and outright racists, that differences between groups are of great importance. While racialists attribute the dif... The Survival of Education: Against The Current vol. 134 Olson, Peter Article 2008 I remember reading Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities as a student activist, when becoming a teacher was an abstract and somewhat romanticized idea floating around my head. I was moved by the politi... Textbook Tempest in California: Who Speaks for Hinduism?: Against The Current vol. 122 Bose, Purnima Article 2006 Decades after their arrival in the United States in significant numbers following the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965, Indian Americans are entering the political fray. Like other ethnic c... Thieving Sons of Bushes: Against The Current vol. 91 Miah, Malik Article 2001 “Never Trust a Son of Bush” was one of many signs at George W. Bush's presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. on January 20. Some 25,000 marched in Washington and 15,000 rallied in San Francisco... Towards the Abolition of Whiteness Roediger, David Book 1994 Roediger's genda is to show how race consciousness among whites needs to be fought so that the working class can be brought to an emancipatory agenda. Triple Jeopardy and the Struggle: Against The Current vol. 134 Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon Article 2008 Being bi- and female in the Asian movement also means putting in double, triple, quadruple time. The Third World Women’s Alliance, an offshoot of the Black Women’s Liberation Committee of the Student ... The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class Roediger, David Book 1991 A book that has reoriented how historians look at the American working class. What Is a Liberal to Do? Spritzler, John Article 2008 Seventy percent of African-American voters in California voted for Proposition 8 to ban same-sex marriage. Liberals, however, say that opposing same-sex marriage is a form of bigotry no better than th... When Human Beings Are Illegal: Against The Current vol. 136 Rachleff, Peter Article 2008 Once the government assumes the task of separating citizens from "impossible subjects," historian Mae Ngai points out, "the border" is everywhere, not just between countries. Thus, the border has come... Why both sides are wrong in the race debate Malik, Kenan Article 2008 For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa: Against The Current vol. 132 Ross, Sam Article 2008 September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host ... The Writings of David Roediger Horowitz, Roger Article 1997 Roediger criticizes Marxists for too often reducing racial discrimination to conflicts over resources, such as jobs or housing, that are manipulated by a society's upper classes in order to divert att... Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesJoelKovel.org Featuring the writings of Joel Kovel on social justice, ecology, Zionism and other topics. News and Letters An organization of Marxist-Humanists standing for the abolition of capitalism, both in its private property form and ins its state property form. We stand for the deveopment of new human relations; wh... Sources LibraryKeeping the Faith Rogers, Melvin 2017 A book review: We Were Eight Years In Power (written by Ta-Nehisi Coates)
In Ta-Nehisi Coates's work, we encounter white supremacy not as a political ideology, but as the defining feature of the U.S.... Other Conundrums Race, Culture, and Canadian Art Gagnon, Mokia Kin 2000 A collection of essays on Canadian art. Report cites reasons for racial unrest in Regent Park 1976 The long awaited Board of Education report on racial unrest in Regent Park was made public last week. It cites a number of reasons for unrest in Regent Park and makes a wide variety of both specific, ... Workshop airs youth problems Diemer, Ulli 1977 Representatives of various social agencies, as well as some residents of Regent Park, come together to discuss youth and agency problems in Regent Park. From the Connexions Archives |
