By Ira Katznelson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Hurricane Katrina’s violent winds and waters tore away the shrouds that ordinarily mask the country’s racial pattern of poverty and neglect. Understandably, most commentators focused on the woeful federal response. Others, taking a longer view, yearned for a burst of activism patterned on the New Deal. … [Read more...] about “When Affirmative Action Was White” by Ira Katznelson (March-April 2006 P&R Issue)
Civil Rights History
“Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
By Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Race and class oppression form the backdrop of everyday reality in the United States. Popular culture is blind to the endemic and systemic nature of racism in our political and economic institutions. Mostly, we tell ourselves comforting stories about who we are and what we have done. Told most … [Read more...] about “Truth and Reconciliation in Greensboro, North Carolina: A Paradigm for Social Transformation” by Signe Waller & Marty Nathan, MD (January-February 2006 P&R Issue)
