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Full-Text Articles in Sociology
The Hand That Pushes The Rock, Paula Rothenberg
The Hand That Pushes The Rock, Paula Rothenberg
Trotter Review
Only a very few schools in this country actually require all students to spend an entire semester thinking about issues of race and gender. Many more have found a way to incorporate these issues in required courses in “social problems” where racism and sexism get their two weeks along with environmental pollution and other current issues. I think this approach is dead wrong. Racism and sexism are not “problems” or “topics.” They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us have learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from …
Book Review: The Arrogance Of Race: Historical Perspectives On Slavery, Racism, And Social Inequality, Vernon J. Williams Jr.
Book Review: The Arrogance Of Race: Historical Perspectives On Slavery, Racism, And Social Inequality, Vernon J. Williams Jr.
Trotter Review
The Arrogance of Race is George M. Fredrick son’s latest work, and it is a profound one. This series of articles, many of which have been published previously, was written over a span of some 20 years and represents the mature reflections of one of this country’s leading intellectual historians. The work should be read by all serious students of race and racism.
Article And Interview Transcript With New Haven Advocate Newspaper, Prexy Nesbitt
Article And Interview Transcript With New Haven Advocate Newspaper, Prexy Nesbitt
Rozell 'Prexy' Nesbitt Writings and Speeches
Prexy Nesbitt, a Chicago-based anti-apartheid activist, was featured in this article and interview with the New Haven Advocate, a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut. At the time, he served as consultant to the government of Mozambique representing the country and its interests in the United States, Canada, and Europe. 15 pages.
More White Than Black, Doug Kesseli
More White Than Black, Doug Kesseli
Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
Editorial from the University of Maine student newspaper The Maine Campus regarding the lack of Black students, faculty, and administrators at the University.
Sports Notes, Wornie L. Reed
Sports Notes, Wornie L. Reed
Trotter Review
Another racial myth came tumbling down in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Korea. Blacks had never before been prominent in swimming competitions at the national level in the United States or at the international level. Several theories about the bone structure and body mass of black people have been offered to explain the absence of blacks on the victory stands at these top competitive levels. But at the 1988 Olympics Anthony Nesty, a black man from Surinam (South America), bested Matt Biondi, swimming’s golden boy in those Olympics, to win the 100-meter butterfly.