Articles about racism

Patrols and Privilege
Kendall Clark
A review of Sally Hadden's Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, the first detailed history of slave patrolling in the American South.
8 March 2002

Justice Entails Ending White Privilege
Kendall Clark
Does racial justice consist merely in achieving some measure of diversity, or are there deeper questions of history and power which need to be asked and answered?
14 April 2003

The Global Privileges of Whiteness
Kendall Clark
White supremacist ideology and White privilege are global in reach and in aspiration. I examine three nodes in the global distribution network of White privilege: empire, corporate profits, and victimhood.
28 June 2001

Bush's Racist Slur
Kendall Clark and Bijan Parsia
Bush's use of a racist slur -- and subsequent failure to apologize for such a use -- is an intolerable coarsening of the present situation.
10 January 2002

Refuse and Resist Anti-Arab Racism
Kendall Clark
In the wake of terrorist attacks, virulent Anti-Arab racism explodes into public spaces everywhere.
12 September 2001

Ignore the Past, Damn the Future
Josh Lucas
When Pearl Harbor was bombed, the U.S. responded by interning 120,000 Japanese people living on the West Coast. Are Arab Americans in danger of being interned?
4 October 2001

My White Problem -- And Ours
Kendall Clark
New tales of the not so new racist South.
8 January 2001

Black Eyes & White Lies
Collin Williams
Animation opposing White Privilege.
14 April 2001

MLK, The Negro and the Constitution
Kendall Clark
Listen to the words: there's yet wisdom in them.
15 January 2001