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Race
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Richard
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THE
VERY REV. ALAN JONES,
Dean of Grace Cathedral.
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| America's
vocabulary for its people is inadequate and antiquated--words like
Hispanic, Latino, Black, White no longer reflect the increasingly
complex reality of American racial and ethnic mix-up, and yet those
words are used like weapons to divide and classify a population
that doesn't fit into them. Richard Rodriguez, a nationally syndicated
journalist with PBS and the Pacific News Service, challenges common
perceptions of race and class, and examines the arguments surrounding
affirmative action, bilingual education, and other hot topics. How
are such divisions drawn and how do they maintain their power? If
it is simply race that determine's one's economic destiny, what
explains the huge poor white underclass? If it is simply economics,
what explains the propensity of police to pull over blacks rather
than whites? Rodriguez asks the dangerous questions. |
January
24, 1999
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