Racism & Discrimination

2009

• Red Scare, Black Scare

  JoAnn Wypijewski : Sex & Sexuality

  The birthers, the anticommunist crazies, the "Obama as Witch Doctor" caricatures: they're all of a piece, welded to sex.

• LA Clippers Owner Pays Out for Race-Based Housing Discrimination

  Dave Zirin : Sports

  Donald Sterling was just obligated to pay out the largest settlement ever obtained by the government in a housing discrimination case involving apartment rentals.

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  Putting Caste on Notice

  Barbara Crossette : United Nations

  Navi Pillay is the first UN human rights commissioner to take on caste discrimination.

• A White Hot Season

  The Editors : African-Americans

  Policy can be racist even when no one crafting it harbors hatred of a particular racial group.

• Voice of America?

  Patricia J. Williams : Conservatives & The American Right

  When does a society tip from expressive speech into excessive fulmination and then into repression or violence?

• Racism Tarnishes News Coverage

  GRIT TV

  How did the mainstream media cover this week's Iranian election, tea-bagger rally in DC or former President Carter's comment about racism and politics in the US?

• The Right Reacts to Racism Allegations

  Countdown : Jimmy Carter

  Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell discusses the importance of President Carter's remark that racism has played a role in the opposition to Obama's agenda.

• Repairing Our Broken Justice System

  Gara LaMarche : Law & Justice

  We need to change the sorry frame of the debate over judges and the role the judicial system plays in our democracy.

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  Slide Show: Race in the Obama Era

  A look at The Nation's coverage of the racial progress and tension in America during the first few months of the Obama presidency.

• Vigilantes: Free to Roam?

  Esther Kaplan : New Orleans

  Our investigation into the shootings of African-Americans in the days after Hurricane Katrina seems to have gotten the feds' attention; but in New Orleans, the wheels of justice have rusted.

• Revealing Hate: Inside White Supremacy

  YouTube

  The upcoming film, Revealing Hate takes an in-depth look at the chilling history and present of America's white supremacist organizations.

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  Do the Right Thing at 20: A Racial Rorschach

  Viveca Greene & Chris Tinson : Film

  Is Spike Lee's seminal film still relevant in the Obama era?

• Racism Runs Wild at Town Halls

  Countdown

  Nation blogger Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the racist undercurrent of the anti-healthcare reform crowds, the "birthers" and the recent trend of hanging public officials in effigy.

• Fear of a Black President

  Media Matters for America

  Right wing commentators would rather stir up racial prejudice than enter into a serious debate about the future of US healthcare.

• Right-Wing Racism Reaches New Heights

  The Rachel Maddow Show

  Nation contributor Melissa Harris-Lacewell on the latest offensive outbursts directed at Obama. Is it a political strategy or a genuine example of racial prejudice?

• Beer and Sympathy

  Gary Younge : Class

  Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s arrest most certainly was a "teachable moment" in the racial conversation--but we've learned nothing.

• Class, Not 'Race'

  Eric Alterman : Class

  No racial profiling took place with Henry Louis Gates Jr.; it's not the "teachable moment" for which many are so understandably eager.