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July/August 2007

My Road Out Of Iraq

On May 21, 2004, Camilo Mejía was sentenced to one year in prison for refusing to return to Iraq. An excerpt from his new book: The Road from Ar Ramadi: The Private Rebellion of Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejía. 


The New Environmentalists

People of color have much at stake in the greening of America.

Gentrifying Downtown

A new urban politics is tailoring cities for affluent whites, but communities are pushing back—with a theory of their own.

 

L.A. Story

Who gains from framing gang attacks as “ethnic cleansing”?

A Meditation on Media Consumption

With so many ways to get the news, people are creating their own media systems.


Mujeres Making Movies

Three Latinas band together to change media and the arts.

The Wire's New Take on an Old Genre

It's not just cops and criminals in this drama of race in the city.

Spotlight: Linda Goss

Official Storyteller of Philadelphia

Race Records

From salsa to jazz to hip hop. Los Amigos Invisibles do it all.

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To The Point

Rinku Sen asks, "Are immigrants people of color?"

Books

Racism in resegrated schools, 20 myths about immigration and more.

Q & A

Black Cherokee advocate Marilyn Vann speaks on racism, tribal membership and the future of the Freedmen.

Transformations

A Cambodian refugee goes home, this time without fear.


July/August 2007
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From the Archives
Video: Bullets in the Hood Nov/Dec 2007 Excerpt from 2004 documentary produced by ProTV and the Downtown Community Television Center
Turning to Tasers Nov/Dec 2007 Phoenix police became the first in the country to use Tasers, but will that decrease shootings?
Black, Latino Suburbs Have Most Shootings Nov/Dec 2007 In Chicago suburbs, more police shootings have occurred in communities with large black or Latino populations.
Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex Fall 1998 What is the Prison Industrial Complex? Why does it matter? Angela Y. Davis tells us. (From Special Section: Prison Industrial Complex)

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