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The author discusses a story of a white female from Fresno, California who live with a racist family and conveys her concerns on racial prejudice in the U.S. Non-profit group Life After Hate received a grant from U.S. President Barack Obama to support its work in helping former white supremacists leave extremist groups. Its funding was stripped away by U.S. President Donald Trump in 2017. Psychologists studying racism from the 1920s to the 1950s considered prejudice to be a psychopathology.

The article discusses the downsides of race-reductive thinking in the quest for racial justice. Topics covered include the race-reductionist scholarship's constitutional failure to recognize change and the workings of historical processes, and its casual referencing of black American experience across space and time in the first-person plural.

The article discusses the increasing racial wealth gap among whites and African Americans in the U.S. Also cited are the importance of social wage policies to address racial inequality, the significant income inequalities between whites and African Americans, and the need to reverse the substantial concentration of income at the top to benefit the working- and middle-classes and resolve the economic legacies of discrimination against African Americans.

The article discusses the issue of racism in the U.S. during disasters like the COVID-19 pandemic. Also cited are the effects of the coronavirus to white Americans, how African Americans are allegedly discriminated during disasters, and the signs of inequalities in the country, including the higher rate of infection of majority-African American counties than majority-white counties.

Presents a profile of Barack Obama, an African-American state senator from Illinois who is running for the U.S. Senate. Claim that Obama, unlike most progressive black politicians, has also been successful in winning over white, blue-collar Democrats; Report that Obama was the overwhelming winner in the Illinois Senate primary; Background on Obama's political career; Details of Obama's multicultural personal background, and his efforts to establish his African American identity, without segregating himself from whites; Obama's achievements at Harvard Law School; Discussion of the challenges faced by African American politicians in winning the votes of moderate whites; Account of how former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder was able to cross racial lines; Reasons why many whites oppose black candidates, and blacks oppose African American candidates who appear to be too moderate; Discussion of Obama's political views, which are unapologetically liberal; Analysis of how Obama won the Senate nomination; Assertion that many white Americans have more positive views of African-born blacks than of African Americans--a prejudice that may help Obama; Speculation about whether Obama's success can be replicated by other African American political candidates.

Examines the potential shift of Germany into an anti-immigrant nationalist political environment and its implications for Europe as of 2002. Growth of the immigrant population in the country; Measures taken by former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl to address the economic crisis faced by the country during the early 1990s; Provisions of the 1951 Codetermination law; Impact of the immigrant population on welfare expenditures and crime rates.

Discusses the efforts of a African American student, Melody Twilley, to join an all-White sorority at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Description of Twilley's effort to desegregate the all-White fraternities and sororities; Brief information about discrimination against African American students in the University; Failure of Twilley to join a White sorority at the school; Views expressed by Twilley about 15 sororities being visited by her as a freshman; Encouragement for Twilley from her mother to try next year after being rejected by all sororities; Names of some African American students who formed all-Black fraternities.

Discusses racial profiling in law-enforcement in the U.S. Cases in which off-duty black police officers have been harassed by white colleagues; View that the policy discriminates against African Americans and gives young people no reason to respect authority; View that racial profiling profoundly violates core conservative principles.

Focuses on the claims made by New York City people that Mayor Rudy Guliani's zero-tolerance crime policy against crime has turned their city into a police state. Role of aggressive policing in sending crime rates plummeting in New York; Opinion that broken-window policing gives cops broad discretion to prosecute low-level offenses in order to deter the social disorder that breeds more crime; Trend of discriminatory law enforcement used to single out racial minorities; Claims made by the African Americans that under vagrancy laws, police tolerated higher levels of criminal behavior in poor neighborhoods than in rich ones.

Focuses on efforts of television networks in the U.S. for increasing minority representation in their industry. Urge made by the networks to establish minority recruitment programs, add minority writing slots to successful shows, and do more business with minority suppliers; Discussion on root cause of segregated viewing of television; Changes that have taken place in the television industry through the advent of cable and television advertising.

Highlights the modification of the employee diversity program at Texaco as of February 1998. Content of the tape recordings of Texaco executives using racial slurs; Details of the class action discrimination suit filed against the company in 1996; Measures taken by the company to revamp its employee diversity program.

Discusses the progress of reconciling race relations in the United States. Past experiences with racial tension or violence in the country; Comparison between the history of American race relations during the 1860s and the 1960s; Conditions of blacks in terms of health, income and schooling; Development of the term "hypersegregation" by demographers to describe the phenomenon that is happening in the urban ghetto and the inner city population; Implications of a study of racial segregation in the country conducted by Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton of the University of Chicago.

Presents information on problems of racism and drug addiction in the United States. Comments on the Town Meeting program on drugs and violence in the U.S. Emergence of racism in the treatment system; Description of a speech made by Francis Welsing, a psychiatrist on the problem of racism; Relation between usage of drug and racism in the U.S.; Establishment of political solutions for social and cultural problems.

Presents an insight into the socio-economic conditions of Black Americans in the U.S. Discussion on the problems faced by the blacks as regard employment, education and other social issues; Description of the economic conditions of middle-class and underclass blacks; Prevalence of race discrimination in the country; Information on moves undertaken by U.S. President George Bush' administration in response to the issues.

Features the works of artist Robert Mapplethorpe at the Whitney Museum in New York. Concept of his artistic talents; Presentation of his works at various galleries; Subject of the photographs including raunchy scenes of sadomasochism, muscular black men with large penises, and exceedingly randy flowers; Suggestion that rapturous, idealizing photos of glistening black bodies have sometimes aroused talk of racism, and of fascism and superman aesthetics.

Describes the trend of the American racial politics over the last four decades. View that the American political system has become increasingly polarized along racial lines these days; Impact of the local political struggles on racial realignment in the U.S.; Deliberation on the impact of politics of racial equation on the outcome of the forthcoming presidential election.

Focuses on the situation of race-relation in the U.S. Instances of racial conflicts; Emphasis on the need for integration of neighborhoods; Discussion on the federal measures so far taken to fill the gulf between races; Poverty among blacks in the U.S.; Opinion that blacks and whites alike must lay aside their claims of victimization and take up the struggle to eliminate the legacy of racism.

Focuses on social and economic conditions of Great Britain. Economic problems faced by the nation; Widening of the income gap; Inflexibility of the class system; Failure of the British government to address policy issues; Emergence of a dual labor market; Statement that the government relies on keeping interest rates high and on exhorting wage levels down; Prevalence of race discrimination in employment; Flaws in the political system of the country.

This article presents information on the effects of apartheid on the political and social conditions in South Africa. According to the author, riven by differences of color and political outlook, white Afrikaners have always disagreed and fought among themselves about the best strategy with which to oppose the Afrikaners, and about the nature of the South African society they envision. Many public officials hoped that President P.W. Botha would propose major initiatives to end the country's growing racial unrest in a speech. But President Botha continued to attribute the escalating violence to Communist powers and Communist-inspired powers. He describes his government's current emergency decree as a crucial measure to restore order among those who murder black people and try to disrupt the normal life of African American communities.

Criticizes the failure of the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan to change the formal regulations that govern affirmative action and racial preference schemes. Opposition to the efforts to reconcile preferential treatment policies with the principle of judging individuals by their individual merits; Way in which the demand for equal statistical results has been carried obsessively; Criticisms against the arguments raised by the defenders of preferential treatment.

Focuses on race relations in the United States. Reasons why racial discrimination cannot be completely eliminated in the U.S.; Need to narrow the disparity between American ideals and racial practice; Factors that cause fundamental failures in black society; Dilemma faced by middle class and successful blacks in the country; Issue of affirmative action in the civil rights debate; Success of the civil rights movement; Challenges facing black leaders and members of the black middle class.

Reports that Starrett City is a federally subsidized housing project in New York City, which has achieved racial integration through a policy of discriminating against African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Comment on the occupancy policy of limiting African American and Hispanic tenants to 40 percent of the total; Dilemma associated with the future of Starrett City in context of the politics in New York.

Discusses the history of the Afro-American civil rights movement. Significance of the 1963 March to Washington in the protest against racial discrimination in the U.S.; Reasons for the outpouring of humanity during the march; Inspiration provided by Martin Luther King Jr. and his assassination; Failure of some black leaders to emulate King's capacity to inspire mass movement of whites as well as blacks; Problems facing black leadership and civil rights organizations; Emergence of black politicians and other achievements of the Afro-American civil rights movement; Condition of Afro-Americans under the administration of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Comments on the intervention of Judge W. Arthur Garrity of the Boston federal court in Massachusetts, in the operation of the public school system that is rife with legal battles over the alleged de facto segregation in the system. Cases filed by black activists groups to fight the segregation; Ruling handed out by Garrity, which held that the Boston School Committee had accepted and tacitly exacerbated the racial problem; Garrity's task of disciplining a community with a tradition of stubborn resistance to interference in its political affairs; Garrity's proposed scheme of busing students to accomplish desegregation, involving police escorts, convoying school buses for distances; Installation of metal detectors at the entrances of South Boston High School and the high school in Hyde Park.

Focuses on the life and poetry of Sterling Brown, a renowned poet of the United States. Experiences with racial discrimination; Brown learned folklore firsthand from the folk in rural Virginia, Missouri, and Tennessee; Brown brought this rich folk speech to the literary forms of poetry; Views that Brown's purpose was to develop kinships between literary forms of expression and an Afro- American audience; Brown's work enacts profound relationship between literature and democracy; Fulfillment of the complex double purpose of writing poetry worthy of a great audience and of helping to shape that diverse, responsive, critical, and inclusive audiences through his essays and criticism.

Focuses on the conditions of physically handicapped people in the United States. Hopes for the proposal of long-term energy solutions, with a special concern for physically handicapped; Expectation that the disabled would compose one of the most important political forces in the U.S.; Steps which should be taken by the society to uplift of the physically disabled persons; Communication obstacles which should be overcome by the handicapped people; Difference in the race discrimination and discrimination against handicapped; Statement that perception of a person as handicapped produces perhaps the most radical act of social declassification possible.

Presents information on the U.S. Supreme Court ruling which declared that state-imposed school segregation is unconstitutional. Comments on racial discrimination; Opposition to racial discrimination in every realm of civic and public activity; Note on the Civil Rights Act of 1964; View that everyone should be considered as an individual without regard to social origin; Information on the fact that the city of Topeka, Kansas, maintained racially segregated schools for the first six grades.

Discusses the government regulation of business firms in the U.S. Steps taken by business firms to protest against these regulations; Impact of new regulatory programs on the cost of living; Report that support for measures to make workplaces safe and to clean up the environment; Information on the establishment of the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate railroads; Role of regulatory agencies in regulating market conditions in various industries; Formation of the Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Communications Commissions to avoid excessive competition; Impact of these agencies on racial and sexual discrimination.

Focuses on the U.S. Supreme Courts decision on issues relating to university admissions programs. Ruling in Bakke case that the type of admissions program used by the Davis Medical School does not pass constitutional muster; Comparison of admission programs at the Davis Medical School with that of the Harvard College; Statement that the Davis program because of its explicit acknowledgment of racial quotas will be viewed as inherently unfair by the public; View that the Harvard's program has the effect of preferring the wealthy and advantaged black applicant.

Analyzes the incidence of crimes committed by African Americans and judicial racism in the U.S. Increase in the murder rate among black youths between 1986 and 1991; Dilemma facing black leaders and intellectuals regarding urban violence; Impact of the reaction of whites to the threat posed by blacks on the dilemma; Motivations behind the more rapid growth in black imprisonment.

Examines the racial conflict within the newsroom of "The Washington Post" which serves as an important case study in the mechanics of affirmative action. Action taken by the newspaper industry in support of compensatory or preferential minority hiring; Impact of the commitment of the newspaper to affirmative action on its traditional reputation; Complaints raised by African American reporters against the newsroom culture of the newspaper; Disadvantages of the political pressure to promote minorities.

Argues in favor of class-based affirmative action initiatives in the U.S. Support for the position of House Speaker Newt Gingrich on affirmative action; Opposition to the arguments raised by Clarence Thomas and Dinesh D'Souza against class-based affirmative action; Comparison of the economic conditions of Whites and African Americans; Discussion of rules about class-based preferences in employment.

Argues in favor of the support of U.S. President Bill Clinton for class-based affirmative action programs. Argument on the social significance of class over race; Analysis of the liberal principles violated by the affirmative action based on race; Advantages and setbacks faced by the Left in pushing racial preferences.

Discusses two affirmative action cases in the U.S. that could revive the debate about racial preferences in the country as of October 17, 1994. Question on the legality of dismissing a white teacher so an African American teacher can replace her on the ground of race in New Jersey; Controversy over a federal judge's ruling that aspects of the affirmative action program at the University of Texas law school in Texas are unconstitutional; Discussion of how the cases could redraw the boundaries of racial preferences; Details of the cases.

Presents a response to a statement released by the White House press office questioning the accuracy of a previous article about the content of the health bill proposed by the government in 1993. Provisions of the bill; Issues involved in the establishment of the national electronic data bank for the storage of the medical histories of patients; Arguments against the implementation of racial quotas in medical training.

Focuses on the conflict between black Catholics and the white-dominated Catholic Church in the United States. Allegations regarding separatism and discrimination upon the suspension of a black priest from Washington D.C.; Information on the religious participation of black Catholics and their perceived isolation; Response of the Vatican to the plight of Afro-American Catholics; Role of black Catholics in internationalism of Catholicism; Discussion of issues of affirmative action, racial quotas, and racial tension; Comments on the racist attitude of the Roman Catholic Church.

Discusses how the United States Army resolve the racial conflict within the institution. Race conflict during the Vietnam War; Changes in the recruitment policies; Army's absolute commitment to equal opportunity and non-discrimination regardless of race.

Asserts that the political pressures on music have been increasing due to an awareness that the Western musical tradition is in a condition of crisis. Replacement of novelty and technique in performances with insight and inspiration; Selection for the concert repertoire; Racial discrimination in the classical culture in New York City; Failure of the author's neighborhood arts organization to market Western art music to the racial and international communities; Findings of a study by the National Task Force on Presenting and Touring the Performing Arts, which mandates the transformation of arts presentation in the U.S.

Part I. Looks at the problems of race and poverty in the rural Southern states. Plight of the Lassiter family of Plains, Georgia; Failure of the industrial development to reach areas where most Afro-Americans live; Decline in federal housing aid to Afro-Americans in the rural South; Lack of social service aid to the poor in the rural South; Indications of the failure of school integration; Afro-American population in Southwest Georgia; Failure of white officials in the South to register more Afro-American voters.

Focuses on the attitude of Americans towards disadvantaged groups and gives details on opinion polls dealing with race-related issues. Details of a 1976 survey regarding favorable racial integration; Explanation of black inequality by National Opinion Research Center poll; Sensitivity of Americans to distinction between compensatory action and preferential treatment; Issue of reverse discrimination.

Focuses on the U.S. foreign policy towards South Africa. Issues related to U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's trip to Africa; Racial discrimination in Southern Africa; Factors tracing a long history in the U.S. diplomacy toward the Southern African problem; Reference to Kissinger's Lusaka, Zambia speech; Speech of Kissinger in U.S. President Gerald R. Ford's primary campaign against politician Ronald Reagan.

Comments on issues related to desegregation of Boston, Massachusetts. Attempt of the cities with a majority of African American population to reduce discrimination in admission to schools; Significance of changes in intellectual fashions of individual thinking to the desegregation issue; Problems caused to democracy by the racial violence; Confusion regarding the segregation during the tenure of former U.S. President Richard Nixon; Relationship of rise of African Americans in the U.S. politics with proposals for metropolitan government; Necessity for minorities to join with Whites as part of egalitarian and majoritarian coalition that do not exist.

The article presents U.S. news briefs as of December 29, 1959. India and the U.S. have formed a partnership that may make it easier for India to get food and weapons from the U.S. following President Dwight D. Eisenhower's trip to the country. The community of Deerfield, Illinois opposes the sale of homes to African Americans. Swiss foreign minister Max Petitpierre is upset that the U.S. is recruiting Swiss citizens into the U.S. armed forces.

Presents letters to the editor related to articles published in different issues of this journal. Discussion on Nazism and racism; Comment on the book "The Irreverent Mr. Mencken"; Discussion on Democrats of the U.S.

The article focuses on the prevalence of racial discrimination in the South of the United States. For years, the Supreme Court has been stepping on Southern toes. But it is not merely an overflowing accumulation of injuries which has made the South so rebellious. Segregation as a whole would not be what it is in the South if whites of conscience, character and culture had not consented to extreme measures to "keep the Negro in his place." Only when Americans generally are willing to see the Negro issue as something bigger than Southern obstreperousness will progress be made.

The article presents information on several developments related to Atomic Energy Commissioners, synthetic rubber plants, racial discrimination and the farmers of the United States. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the President of the United States, has just nominated Allen Whitfield, a lawyer, to be one of the five Atomic Energy Commission's Commissioners for the next five years. Resolutions disapproving the sale of government synthetic rubber plants were defeated on March 22, 1955 in the House by 283-132.

Discusses the opposition of the National Action Group (NAG), a group of white workers in Pontiac, Michigan, to school busing. Fears that busing might increase black population in schools; History of racial clashes in the area; Concerns over racial conflict; Legal aspects; Insistence of NAG that its opposition to busing has nothing to do with race; Suggestion that the busing controversy is a symptom of deeper discontents among Pontiac's working class; Outlook for NAG's political efforts in Congress; Role of busing in achieving racial balance.

Highlights the case of Angela Davis, who was recommended for a two-year appointment as a research scholar with the University of California at Los Angeles, but was untimely dismissed due to her affiliation with the Communist Party. Role played by mass media in publicizing the story; Academic credentials of Davis; Allegations leveled against Davis by the Board of Regents in order to dismiss her; Opinion of Davis that the Regents are guilty of racism and have an aversion to political militants, and especially those on the Left; Status of Davis in light of various judgments of the Supreme Court; Obligations that a Communist knowingly accepts; Questions about academic freedom that have been raised by this case.

Focuses on school reforms in the U.S. Difficulties in solving the school crisis; Effect of racial discrimination on movement for community control; Comments on the issue relating to whether laymen or professionals will run the schools; Assessment of the community action programs; Effect of discrimination and the decline of opportunities for unskilled work on Blacks; Problems related to community control of the schools.