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Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Wolfgang Binder
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Wolfgang Binder
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Professor Forbes’ article represents a timely and important contribution. It should, if need be, serve as a means of raising the readers’ historical consciousnesses during a period in which dramatic changes in U.S. economic and social policies are under way, in a time when unabashed power politics seem to be imposed on half the globe by the ruling classes of both great imperial powers.
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], David M. Johnson
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], David M. Johnson
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
To quote the cartoon character Pogo: "We have met the enemy and he is us." The key strength in Forbes' analysis of fascism is his wide-ranging historical sweep and the way he shows that many elements in American character, such as prejudice against immigrants and eagerness for the spread of American ideas overseas, are related to fascistic tendencies throughout American history.
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Shirley Vining Brown
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Shirley Vining Brown
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Forbes’s analysis of fascism reveals that fascist tendencies are dormant seeds of exploitation that resurface and flourish under conditions of greed or when exploitive systems are threatened and opposed by those they oppress. Because fascism is more than politics and shares a symbiotic relationship with supportive and enduring cultural values, he is correct in directing our attention to those historical and cultural antecedents that give rise to omnifarious forms of fascism in this country and elsewhere. Cultural values and their symbiotic connectedness with political decisions are perhaps the single-most important feature of fascism considered in this timely and cogently discussed …
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Barbara F. Luebke
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Barbara F. Luebke
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
“The complex of concepts which western peoples use to process data and make decisions are the ultimate enemy of minorities. . . .” As an educator, and especially as one involved in educating journalists, I found myself drawn to Deloria’s statement.
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Thomas Mann Jr
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Thomas Mann Jr
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
To disagree with the author’s central theme that institutional racism is the principal deterrent to social, economic, and political equality of the races in America would be to ignore centuries of American history in which racial minorities have been oppressed and denied equality of rights and opportunities. Even further, one must agree with the author’s argument that institutional racism is merely the manifestation of “beliefs held so tenaciously that they guide behavior spontaneously by excluding any process which call them into question,” while simultaneously purporting to be open to the individual, irrespective of race», gender or age.
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Marvin J. Happle
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Marvin J. Happle
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
In the sixties, the scattered attacks against various manifestations of racism briefly coalesced into a broad based movement. Some gains were made, chiefly in the areas of voting rights, consumer discrimination, and education. However, the movement failed to significantly alter the wealth distribution system through the achievement of employment equity, this could only have resulted from affirmative action in all sectors and at all levels of the economy. But in the employment struggle, the confrontation was much closer to the heart of capitalist institutions and was perceived as a greater threat to the stability of those institutions.
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Frank J. Cavaioli
Critique [Of Fascism: A Review Of Its History And Its Present Cultural Reality In The Americas], Frank J. Cavaioli
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Writing from the vantage point of the 1980s, white historians have questioned the earlier simplistic interpretations of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian Democracy. Certainly that “democracy” excluded blacks, Indians, women, and the poor, since it was modeled on the ancient Athenian system. It is clear that these and other evils were compromised and were not resolved to the complete satisfaction of the masses. For example, though the Civil War produced the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments white Americans devised other systems to keep blacks in an inferior position.
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], James A. Perry
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], James A. Perry
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
For those who see institutional racism as a problem which can be solved, the points of focus by Deloria are these: An institution is a "person" with a personality shaped by western-culture; and institutional racism is a phenomenon created by western culture. The idea that an institution is a “person” with a personality of its own is not new; the legal profession has held that a corporation, and therefore, an institution, is a “person” protected by the fourth amendment of the Constitution.
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Anthony J. Cortese
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Anthony J. Cortese
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
As Deloria indicates in the opening lines of his essay, the dominant paradigm of racism in the 1960s reflected the popularly held belief that racism was an individual phenomena. Consequently. if racist individuals were confronted and curtailed or converted, the argument concluded, then discrimination would come to an end. However, history has shown us that we can have racist institutions without having racist individuals. For instance, our education institutions perpetuate racial, as well as sex, inequality. Yet it is possible for every member of such an institution to be non-racist, as well as non-sexist.
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Kathleen Hickok
Critique [Of Institutional Racism], Kathleen Hickok
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Vine Deloria’s incisive analysis of institutional racism in western culture applies equally well to the related problem of institutional sexism. Both women, and minorities especially individual members of minority racial groups who are immediately recognizable by members of the dominant white culture - belong to a caste rather than a class in western society. As such, we are all subjected by the traditions of white male philosophical. and intellectual processes as much as by existing socio-political institutions to the different varieties of exclusion, co-optation and disempowerment that Deloria outlines. In the past decade particularly, women’s situation in American political and …