... past several decades. The race neutral forces of the new global economy display an inherent bias in favor of the well educated computer literate, primarily white, professional over the less educated, unskilled worker. Within this structure those lower paying jobs previously held by unskilled, primarily non-white Americans have shifted overseas to cheaper, foreign laborers. As the ... Bronx Rising, that being the social and political power available to groups which show a willingness and ability to organize and mobilize independent of racial and ethnic differences. Where Katznelson appear...

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... urging peaceful solutions to the crisis – becomes of intersectional importance because it demonstrates the complex inter-space between the simple dichotomy formed in the discourse on the riots. Rather than slipping through this gap, in the case of London and Ferguson such intersectional figures often became highly important to the events and the discourse which surrounded them. This kind of ... ...

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... into minority pasts, history has attained increasingly sufficient documentation of the enslaved African American woman's legacy. While this historiography may be farther removed from the actual lifetime of these women than would be ideal, historians are certainly making headway in their scholarship of this previously historically alienated group....

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... term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black people of negative attitudes typically held by white people about blackness. "White supremacy" is also useful when referring to how black people ... ...

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... a statement regarding protesters: "They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate it evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power, under the constitution, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the different states ... by the time he was elected president and with the outbreak of the Civil War, it was clear that the problem with slavery had to be confronted with force rather than politics....

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... the special treatment one group receives is facing tougher competition for a limited amount of slots, then winning that competition will mean more than it once did. A degree from School X will mean something very different in the hands of majorities than minorities. How does this relate to employment and inevitably future social success? Employers don't look at which schools a person was admitted, but ... likely made in terms of prior qualifications. It is simply a statistical fact that those who did not receive affirmative action will be, on average, better qualified than those job app...

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