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what a woman who could have joined the D.A.R. has learned about the socially-constructed, political notion of "race" by just paying attention and NOT keeping her mouth shut...

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Quotes To Live By


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Friday, February 07, 2014

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva on Racism Without Racists



Just before the last Presidential election in 2012, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva -- Chair of the Sociology Department at Duke University and author of Racism Without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America -- was interviewed by Mark Anthony Neal on his show "Left of Black." What Dr. Bonilla-Silva has to say is probably even more important now than it was then.
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Monday, February 03, 2014

Prison: The Not-So-Secret Industry

Private Prison Industry
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