excerpts from “Tyson Foods Sued For Maintaining Segregated Work Areas” BlackNews.com, 8/31/05
Whites Only Sign and Padlock Placed on Bathroom Door
Ashland, AL (BlackNews.com) - A lawsuit alleges that Tyson Foods, Inc. is responsible for maintaining a segregated bathroom and break room, reminiscent of the Jim Crow era, in its Ashland, Alabama chicken processing plant.
Thirteen […]
In The Twilight of Equality? Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy (Beacon Press, Boston 2003), Lisa Duggan exposes critical elements of the ongoing political and economic success of conservatives and the comparable weaknesses of the progressive Left. From the attack on public universities to welfare reform, she examines how conservatives, which she […]
The Global Hierarchy of Race by Martin Jacques
I always found race difficult to understand. It was never intuitive. And the reason was simple. Like every other white person, I had never experienced it myself: the meaning of color was something I had to learn. The turning point was falling in love with my wife, an […]
The first sign of trouble came at the San Francisco International Airport on the morning of Oct. 23, when Arshad Chowdhury was returning to school in Pittsburgh from a trip to the West Coast.
The 26-year-old business administration student at Carnegie Mellon University was waiting to catch Northwest Airlines Flight 342 to Pittsburgh when an announcement […]
There’s a review on Monkeyfist.com of Sally E. Hadden’s Slave Patrols: Law and Violencer in Virginia and the Carolinas, in which the political economy of slave patrols is considered, particularly the degree to which White citizens traded civil rights and individual liberties for racialized communal goods:
This contortion of property rights — in which patrollers were […]
History Writes Us: An Interview with Antiracist Writer Kendall Clark
One of the points I have repeated in my work is that while oppressive social systems are often able to crush people utterly, as social systems they have to obey certain law-like social regularities. One of these is that the ideal way to justify or […]
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Playthell Benjamin, “Aftermath of the Disaster“
I have heard one Christian cleric after another call for war against the Muslim terrorists with all the fervor of a medieval monk recruiting knights for the crusades - a term actually employed by President. The teachings of Jesus - whom they all give lip service to - along with […]