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...explicit discrimination has receded in the last two decades, culminating in the elevation of an African-American to the Presidency, a woman to the House Speakership and a black woman to the galactic dominance known as being Oprah Winfrey, those who study the effects of racism and sexism have had to cope with a difficult question: If discrimination is less powerful, why do some groups in society continue to fare worse than others? Has bias merely become better hidden, or are there other forces at work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Stereotypes Defeat the Stereotyped | 5/9/2009 | See Source »

...James Rado and George Ragne, with musical composition by Galt MacDermot. It follows the story of “The Tribe,” a group of politically active, long-haired Greenwich Village friends whose rebellion against the conservatism of their parents’ generation leads to struggles with racism...

Author: By Manning Ding, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Paulus Gets Tony Nomination for ‘Hair’ | 5/8/2009 | See Source »

...countries over who was to blame for the contagion, which could touch off a powder keg in sensitive areas like the Taiwan Strait or Palestine. In addition, the blame for the disease may take on an ethnic or racial component. In the U.S., swine flu has already encouraged latent racism against Latinos to bubble to the surface. For organizations where keeping calm is a daily struggle, like prisons, pandemic panic can lead to riots or even murders...

Author: By Adam R. Gold | Title: Don’t Go Hog Wild | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

Israel’s David Duke, Avigdor Lieberman, took center stage last month as foreign minister. Americans—on the whole—rejected Duke’s rank racism. But Lieberman was frighteningly successful in February’s national election, indicating a bigoted viewpoint in Israeli society that chooses Jewish supremacy rather than equal rights for all citizens...

Author: By Nimer Sultany | Title: U.S. Lessons for Israel’s Jim Crow | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...editorial for the daily Libération as the trial opened. Joffrin warned that anti-Semitic thinking that has long been present among France's extreme right- and left-wing political groups is gaining traction in France's blighted suburbs. "In the exclusion of the projects, in the racism that strikes minorities, and in their social despair," Joffrin wrote, "the old plague has found favorable terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Trial Puts Focus on French Anti-Semitism | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

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