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RACE AND CLASS

MELTDOWN! When Economy Sneezes, Black America Gets Pneumonia By Herb BoydOctober 1, 2008

This is Your Nation on White Privilege By Tim WiseSeptember 29, 2008

Race and Class: Taking Action at the Intersections By Rhonda SotoSeptember 25, 2008

Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline By Booth Gunter and Jamie KizzireApril 30, 2008

King's Dream Deferred, One More Victim of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis By Michelle SingletaryFebruary 29, 2008

Many African-American and Latino Families in Danger of Falling Out of Middle Class By DemosFebruary 29, 2008

The Retreat from Race and Class By David RoedigerFebruary 29, 2008

Race, Class And Real Estate By Sheryll D. CashinFebruary 29, 2008

Parenting; Helping Children to Navigate 2 Worlds
Whites have the privilege of not having to discuss race,'' Odelind Lewis said. ''If I was raising white males, it would be different.''By Michael WineripJanuary 30, 2008

Black America - a race divided
The growing perception of two races is really a divide over values.By Juan WilliamsNovember 30, 2007

Wanna Talk Values?
African Americans have broken two new barriers, according to the Pew Charitable Trust Economic Mobility Project’s new report.By Rhonda Soto, Class Action Race/Class Intersections Program CoordinatorNovember 27, 2007

Poverty in Indian Country still higher than average
The number of Native Americans living in poverty and without health insurance remains sky-high, according to figures recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.By indianz.comNovember 1, 2007

Wheel of Misfortune
Imagine, if you will, Congress passing a bill to make Indian tribes more self-sufficient that gives billions of dollars to the white backers of Indian businesses — and nothing to hundreds of thousands of Native Americans living in poverty.By Donald L. Barlett and James B. SteeleOctober 31, 2007

Is classism the new racism? By BY CHERYL L. REED Sun-Times Books EditorNovember 12, 2006

Another Case of Government for Some
The states hardest hit by Katrina are for many African Americans our real home. Once again we are forced to face the fact that to politicians, black life is cheap.By Makani Themba-Nixon, on AlterNetSeptember 6, 2005

What Happens to a Race Deferred
THE white people got out. Most of them, anyway.... What a shocked world saw exposed in New Orleans last week wasn't just a broken levee. It was a cleavage of race and class...By By Jason DeParle, The New York TimesSeptember 4, 2005

 
   


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