When Race Burns Class: “Settlers” Revisited — An Interview With J. Sakai
EC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things?
JS: Settlers […]
Media Downplay Bigotry of Jesse Helms
Of civil rights protests Helms wrote, “The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that’s thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men’s rights.” (WRAL-TV commentary, 1963) He also wrote, “Crime rates and irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact […]
Poll: Most Oppose Residency for Mexican Illegals
The nation divides over a Bush administration proposal to offer legal residency to illegal immigrants from Mexico, with support strongest among nonwhites and in the West.
Overall, 43 percent of Americans say they’d support a plan “in which illegal immigrants from Mexico would be allowed to live and work legally […]