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The New Jim Crow | The American Prospect In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as justification for discrimination, exclusion, or social contempt. Rather, we use our criminal-justice system to associate criminality with people of color and then engage in the prejudiced practices we supposedly left behind. Today, it is legal to discriminate against ex-offenders in ways it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you're labeled a felon, depending on the state you're in, the old forms of discrimination -- employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, and exclusion from jury service -- are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights and arguably less respect than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.

Russell Sage Foundation Laissez Faire Racism: The Crystallization of a 'Kinder, Gentler' Anti-Black Ideology

Racial attitudes in the 1990s ... - Google Books

15 protesters arrested in ethnic studies sit-in - KGUN 9 On Your Side, Tucson News, Weather & Sports University of Arizona professor and member of the Mexican-American Studies Advisory Board, Roberto Rodriquez, was one of 37 people who stayed behind as the protestors were cleared from the courtyard. He told KGUN 9 the bill is another attack on Chicanos. "SB1070 is the physical, that is somebody doesn't want us here, the other, HB 2281 is about our spirits. They want our spirits, they want our souls."

HB 2281 prohibits a school district or charter school from including courses or classes that either promote the overthrow of the United States government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people. Format Document Provisions · States that the Legislature finds and declares that public school pupils should be taught to treat and value each other as individuals and not be taught to resent or hate other races or classes of people. · Prohibits a school district or charter school from including in its program of instruction any courses or classes that: Ø Promote the overthrow of the United States government. Ø Promote resentment toward a race or class of people. Ø Are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group. Ø Advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.

Citing Individualism, Arizona Tries to Rein in Ethnic Studies in School - NYTimes.com “They are teaching a radical ideology in Raza, including that Arizona and other states were stolen from Mexico and should be given back,” he continued, referring to the Mexican-American studies classes. “My point of view is that these kids’ parents and grandparents came, mostly legally, because this is the land of opportunity, and we should teach them that if they work hard, they can accomplish anything.”

Arizona Law - Ethnic Studies - Anderson Cooper | Mediaite The most exemplary exchange in the debate for the general attitude of both sides comes late in the segment, when Dyson argues that “Martin Luther King [he comes up often in this clip] cannot by used to justify xenophobic and racist passions that are dressed up as desires to reform the curriculum.” Horne replies, “I think the xenophobia and racism is on your side.”

Op-Ed Columnist - The Rage Is Not About Health Care - NYTimes.com If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same trajectory. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay Congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play. It’s not happenstance that Frank, Lewis and Cleaver — none of them major Democratic players in the health care push — received a major share of last weekend’s abuse. When you hear demonstrators chant the slogan “Take our country back!,” these are the people they want to take the country back from.

Conservatives put stamp on Texas textbooks - Education- msnbc.com Another amendment deleted a requirement that sociology students "explain how institutional racism is evident in American society."