Nineteenth-Century Biological Theories on Race
Overview
In 1848 the whole of Europe was plagued by revolution. Fueled by nationalist and ethnic individual interests, these revolutions were a symptom o...
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Here's Yvette Clarke on today's candidate forum on WNYC:
On the issue of Mr. Yassky's candidacy, do you consider him a racial carpetbagger?
"Yes I do. There is no doubt that David Yassky made a ...
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An Illinois congressman said he was a victim of racial profiling when police gave him a traffic ticket alleging he swerved over the center line.U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who is black, said he will go ...
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The half-hour program, which airs on Saturdays at 12:30 pm, drew stimulus from a 2003 MTV Video Music Award appearance by the west coast rapper donning the red carpet with two black women tethered ...
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An off-campus party that asked students to come dressed "politically incorrect" has prompted an investigation by Macalester College officials who learned one student was costumed as a Ku Klux Klan ...
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Television actor Jason Wahler hurled racial and homophobic invectives at a police officer when he was arrested over the weekend after punching a hotel security guard and passing out drunk in a hall...
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Rep. William Jefferson accused the Justice Department of bringing corruption charges against him in Virginia to reduce the chance of drawing black jurors.Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat who has bee...
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One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror su...
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The struggles of the nation's blacks _ a loyal Democratic voting bloc _ topped the agenda Thursday as the party's eight presidential candidates gathered for their third primary debate.The debate at...
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Blacks in the United States are imprisoned at more than five times the rate of whites, and Hispanics are locked up at nearly double the white rate, according to a study released Wednesday by a crim...
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Barack Obama is walking a tricky racial line, trying to excite black support in the South without getting tagged as "the black candidate" and scaring off anybody else.At a spaghetti dinner in the b...
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