For those who know how race and media intersect in times of crisis, the earthquake in Haiti has probably sent a bump through your pop-cultural seismograph. Now it’s becoming a flashpoint.
via Please Don’t Superdome Haiti (update) | RaceWire.
Categorized in Anti-racism
A new study by United for a Fair Economy, aptly titled “State of the Dream 2010: Drained – Jobless and Foreclosed in Communities of Color” (pdf), paints a dismal portrait of the situation at the end of last year. Its authors broke down the unemployment rate by race and ethnicity and found that the Dec. 2009 rates were higher for African-Americans and Latinos than any annual rate in nearly three decades.
via Surprise! White-Minority Income Gap Continues to Widen | PEEK | AlterNet.
Link to State of the Dream 2010: Drained report (pdf) here.
Categorized in Social Justice, Structural Racism and White Privilege
This week as the nation once again pays tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., it is important to remember that his work is not yet finished. Nowhere is that clearer than in the nation’s communities of color still disproportionately affected by industrial pollution.
via Dr. King’s Work Is Yet Undone | | AlterNet.
Categorized in Anti-racism, Environmental Justice, Human & Civil Rights, Social Justice, Social-uplift Environmentalism and Structural Racism
As historian, this debate makes me think of older arguments about African American citizenship. During Reconstruction there were well-meaning people who debated whether or not the freed slaves were ready for citizenship. Perhaps they needed more time, more education. By the turn of the twentieth century, black citizenship was being systematically destroyed by disfranchisement, lynching, and racial segregation. African Americans had made dramatic gains in education, and yet their opportunities were eroding. Many had banked on respectability as a political tool and were left disappointed.
via Race – Salon.com.
Categorized in Anti-racism, Human & Civil Rights, Political Psychology, Structural Racism and White Privilege
