For years and in many different situations I have heard appeals to Justice Harlan’s one-person dissent in the Plessy vs. Ferguson decision of 1896, in which he articulated the idea that the Constitution, and therefore the law of the land is “color blind.” Read on…
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Justice Harlan and Race
December, 1996
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Also tagged civil rights, dissent, dominant race, ferguson decision, justice harlan, legislative decisions, plessy vs ferguson, racial pride
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Assumptions (Convictions) About Racism in United States of America
August, 1990
Recently a friend who was writing a doctoral dissertation about racism, asked me to share some of my major assumptions about racism, how it functions, and how to work to eliminate it. Read on…
Posted in Identifying Racism
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Also tagged colonies, doctoral dissertation, equality, institutions, judicial decisions, people of color, racism, white superiority
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