Monthly Archive: January 2004

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Dean’s blunt talk about race

“Everybody tends to hire people like themselves.” Neither Dean nor Jackson understands that who we consider “like ourselves” changes based on different situations and where we are in certain periods of life. The people...

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Ira Berlin

In SLAVES WITHOUT MASTERS, Berlin admits that at least 70-75 percent of the “free colored” were “mulatto” or mixed-race rather than “black.” Paul Heinegg calls these people “African Americans” even though they had no...

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Arab Americans and whiteness

Some Younger U.S. Arabs Reassert Ethnicity The New York Times January 11, 2004 by LYNETTE CLEMETSON CLEVELAND – Bring up ethnic identity in the Coury family and prepare to sit a while. Joseph M....