By Linda Burnham (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Those of us who participated in the United Nations World Conference Against Racism did so in the hopes that we could help create new conditions, new understandings and new strategies for the struggle against racism; that we could help move the international community another step forward in its fitful efforts to … [Read more...] about “Reflections on Durban and 9/11” by Linda Burnham (January-February 2002 P&R Issue)
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“Symposium: After Durban” (January-February 2002 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) A selection of commentaries on the August-September 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa. January/February 2002 issue of Poverty & Race The August-September 2001 United Nations World Conference Against Racism, Racial … [Read more...] about “Symposium: After Durban” (January-February 2002 P&R Issue)
“Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye: Durban and Beyond” by Wade Henderson (January-February P&R Issue)
By Wade Henderson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) It’s been only a few months since the tragedy of September 11, but it’s already cliché to suggest to those of us who live in this country how deeply the events of that day have affected our lives and seared our psyches. We know firsthand that the magnitude of loss is a grievous blow, both in lost lives and lost … [Read more...] about “Reflections in a Jaundiced Eye: Durban and Beyond” by Wade Henderson (January-February P&R Issue)
“Do We Still Have a Dream?” by Paul L. Wachtel (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By Paul L. Wachtel (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown perform a valuable service in reminding us of how the reality of daily life in America contradicts some of our society’s cherished illusions. But in referring to integration as an illusion there is also a problematic ambiguity that has a potential to impede the very struggle whose … [Read more...] about “Do We Still Have a Dream?” by Paul L. Wachtel (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“Needed: An Antiwhite Movement” by Noel Ignatiev (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By Noel Ignatiev (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown are right to conclude that integration of black and white must forever remain an illusion. Integration, in the sense they use the term, is incompatible with the existence of white and black as social categories. The society they envision requires not integration of white … [Read more...] about “Needed: An Antiwhite Movement” by Noel Ignatiev (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
