Word: segregationism
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One of the major canvases of Woodson’s critique was the American education system. In one of his most influential pieces, The Miseducation of the Negro, he writes that it was not structured in a manner complimentary to the social condition of African-Americans. From the high-class...
Some self-destructive blacks who actually suffer from nihilism—a sense of hopelessness so severe that a person no longer actively pursues a meaningful life—take hip-hop’s public celebration of this outlook to justify their lifestyle. Today’s hip-hop...
I was very much interested in your Sept. 19 article on Thurgood Marshall, and was equally interested to read the rather predictable letters [Oct. 17 et seq.,] in rebuttal. I recently had the opportunity to hear Marshall when he spoke before the Virginia Convention of the N.A.A.C.P. here. I am...
These institutions, according to sociologist Loic Wacquant, have each handled “the task of defining, confining, and controlling African Americans,” but the mass incarceration society we live in differs significantly from slavery and segregation. Their purpose was to extract cheap labor from blacks while still...
According to a recent Gallup poll, only 34 percent of blacks express confidence in the police and 16 percent in the local courts. Coupled with the fact that one in seven black men is barred from voting because of penal disenfranchisement and that criminal conviction can make one ineligible for...