In his 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Derrick Bell posited a provocative thesis: Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those Herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary `peaks of progress, short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. … [Read more...] about Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
Symposium: Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
A discussion of whether racism is permanent and how those involved in anti-racism work continue despite the depressing state of race relations in the United States. November/December 1993 issue of Poverty & Race We asked a sample of PRRAC Board members, Social Science Advisory Board members and grantees to submit short essays, to respond to the position -- put forth … [Read more...] about Symposium: Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
