- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- America's racial fairytales
Are those with the power to cancel people wielding that power responsibly?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
The practice of cancelling ordinary people for minor public rudeness or crudeness has been a common practice for nearly 10 years now.
- Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient Views of Blacks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
In this richly-illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank M. Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their colour. For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African blacks in commerce and war, and left a record of these encounters in art and in written documents. The blacks -- most commonly known as Kushites, Ethiopians, or Nubians -- were redoubtable warriors and commanded the respect of their white adversaries. The overall view of blacks was highly favourable. In science, philosophy, and religion colour was not the basis of theories concerning inferior peoples.
- Beyond the Spectacle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what's the big deal? America has always been a land of shape shifters, and if she isn't stopped for "driving while black" or followed while shopping, and if her sons are not targeted by cops, then how is she different from the politician who is Italian on Columbus Day and Irish on Saint Patrick's Day?
- Black History and the Class Struggle
#25
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Booker's Place
A Mississippi Story
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
In 1965, African-American waiter Booker Wright spoke out in a television documentary, outraging many white Southerners and resulting in his murder. Years later, the filmmaker's son returns to examine the repercussions of the interview on Wright's family and the community as a whole.
- Caste, Class, and Race: A Study of Social Dynamics
Resource Type: Book
A 1948 sociological analysis of the issues of caste, class, and race relations in the United States and the world by Trinidadian-born, US-based scholar Oliver Cromwell Cox.
- The changing meaning of race
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
If the proverbial anthropologist from Mars were to land in Britain today, he would probably regard us as schizophrenics when it comes to the question of race. He would find a population within which there is a general consensus that racism is morally abhorrent and yet is keen to define itself in terms of its ethnic or racial background.
- Class Notes
Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Reed argues against the solipsistic approaches of cultural or identity politics, and in favour of class-based political interpretation and action. Class Notes moves on to tackle race relations, ethnic studies, family values, welfare reform, the so-called underclass, and black public intellectuals.
- The Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The mass mobilization of black people in the Southern civil rights movement, and the subsequent Northern ghetto rebellions, disrupted and challenged the racist American bourgeois order. It shattered the anti-Communist consensus and it paved the road for the mass protest movements that followed—against the U.S. dirty war in Vietnam, for the rights of women, gays, students and others.
- The Color of Politics
Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Race, Racism, Ethnicity, Multiculturalism Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on race, racism, ethnicity, multiculturalism, identity.
- Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
An analysis on the formation of Charles Darwins' views on slavery and the impact of those views on his theories and publications.
- The Futility of Race-Naming Mass Shooters
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2021
As simplistic and satisfying as it would be, no single demographic emerges from the data as “the typical mass shooter.” It depends on what type of mass shooting you’re looking at. In the end, focusing on the race of mass shooters is not helpful; it is not predictive of who is likely to engage in gun violence. Singling out any specific race as being dangerous is likely to do more harm than good. While race is not a useful or predictive prism through which to understand or identify mass shooters, mental illness is no better and is in many ways a distraction from the deeper issues. As with other mass shooter demographics, there is little insight to be gained by focusing on the mental health history of mass shooters. There are several reasons for this, perhaps most prominently that most mass shooters across all categories do not have a prior history of mental health treatment.
- Gilroy and Reed on Race, Class & Culture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The common theme has been the way that those who call themselves 'progressive' or 'anti-racist' often draw upon ideas that are deeply regressive and rooted in racial ways of thinking; and that the consequences of identity politics and of concepts such as cultural appropriation is to bring about not social justice but the empowerment of those who would act as gatekeeprs to particular communities. The articles have inevitably drawn much hostility, especially from would-be gatekeepers, who insist that to challenge such ideas is to challenge antiracism, even to 'defend white supremacy'.
- Healing the Wounds
The Promise of Ecofeminism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
- How Culture Came to Appropriate Race
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Racism has historically played a major role in shaping adoption practices.
- I'm Bengali and I'm black - in the same way that my parents were
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Asians may be seen as a distinct today but in the 1980s they and other immigrants identified as Black due to common struggles with racism and discrimination.
- The Invention of the White Race
Volume One: Racial Oppression and Social Control
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
One of the great contributions of Allen's study is a complete debunking of the myth that race and skin colour are the same thing.
- The Invisible Empire
Racism in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Cannon asks how can a tolerant nation like Canada be racist? Several incidents are documented in regard to minorities, employment, the justice system, and immigrants from Third World countries.
- Keeping the Rabble in Line
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Interviews with Noam Chomsky covering issues such as free trade, health care, global warming, the nature of corporations, human rights, and democracy.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- Malcolm X Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A series of speeches, seminars and press conferences given by Malcolm X during the last years of his life in 1964 and early 1965.
- Malik, Kenan
Resource Type: Website
Website and blog of Kenan Malik, featuring articles on race, identity, multiculturalism, diversity, and censorship.
- Master race
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2015
Corruption
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Corruption - or at least some types of corruption - are much in the news, with the ongoing scandals in the Canadian Senate and the recent U.S. targeting of the Swiss-based football federation FIFA for alleged bribery. In this issue, we look at these and other forms of corruption. Diana Johnstone writes about the double standards displayed by U.S. institutions, which happily target enemies and rivals, while ignoring the much greater corruption that underlies the power structures in Washington. We feature an article detailing how much money U.S. Senators received from corporations prior to their vote on the TPP negotiations, as well as materials on criminal conduct by some of the world's biggest banks, and an article on the work of investigative journalists in exposing corruption.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2017
Race and Class
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Class conflict - first and foremost, the relationship between the capitalist class and the working class -- is the fundamental contradiction that defines capitalist society. Class is a reality which simultaneously encompasses and collides with other dimensions of oppression and domination, such as gender and race. The relationship between race and class, in particular, is the theme of this issue of Other Voices.
- Queer Progress
From Homophobia to Homonationalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
- Race and IQ
Expanded Edition
Resource Type: Book
This editions contains 5 new essays that address the claims made in The Bell Curve and the social agenda these claims are used to promote.
- Race, Class, and the Left with Adolph Reed Jr.
Resource Type: Audio
Published: 2019
Audio interview with Adolph Reed Jr.
- Race, Class, and White Privilege: A response
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Underlying the "white privilege" thesis are two basic claims. First, that being "white" is a useful category in which to put everyone from the CEOs of multinational corporations to the cleaners in an Amazon warehouse. And, second, that being in such a category imbues people with privileges denied to those not in that category. Are either of these claims true?
- The race debate: nothing to do with race
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Genetic differences are not the same as racial differences. Race divides human beings into a small set of discrete groups, defined usually by skin colour, appearance, or descent, sees each group as possessing a fixed set of traits and abilities and regards the differences between these groups as the defining feature of humanity. None of these ideas make scientific sense. But if the idea of race doesn't make scientific sense, why have scientists suddenly become so keen to talk about racial categories? They haven't. What they have done is become much more adept at defining genetic differences between populations.
- Race, Gender, and Work
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
- Race, pluralism and the meaning of difference
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Far from establishing a critique of racial thinking, the politics of difference appropriates many of its themes and reproduces the very assumptions upon which racism has historically been based. Most critically, the embrace of difference has undermined the capacity to defend equality.
- Race Shifting in Eastern Canada and New England
Resource Type: Article
This map identifies organizations that are involved in race shifting, i.e.,when white people claim an “Indigenous” identity on basis of ancestor in 1600s.
- Raceshifting
Resource Type: Website
This website is a resource for people who are concerned with or want to find out more about the rise of the so-called “Eastern Metis” in the eastern provinces (Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia) and in New England (Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine).
- Racial categories are reactionary
One of the most banal and vulgar ways to think about humanity is to classify by 'race'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
Racial thinking, no matter how 'progressively' arrived at, can only be reactionary. It is irrational, anti-scientific and anti-humanist. It is a fetter on the social development of human beings and their flourishing. Racialism and racism are twin brothers. Solidifying racial categories in mainstream discourse is a grave mistake. Real progress should mean challenging racial thinking at its root and ultimately transcending it.
- Racial divisions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The debate about race is not about whether genetic differences exist between human populations, but about the significance of such differences.
- Racism, capitalism and contradictions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital for control of the workplace, for hours and wages, but also workers compete as each other.
- Racism in Asia
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Racism in Asia exists for similar reasons that racism elsewhere exists, with roots in events that have happened anywhere from thousands of years ago to the present.
- Savage Inequalities
Children in America's Schools
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Science, Myth, and History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The story of ‘Kennewick Man’ - the debate around a 9000-year old skeleton and what it reveals about current ideas of culture, race and science.
- Seeing Ourselves
Exploring Race, Ethnicity and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Sweet Promises
A Reader On Indian-White Relations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- There's no such thing as a 'pure' European--or anyone else
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Europeans have no unique heritage. New studies show that almost all indigenous Europeans descend from at least three major migrations in the past 15,000 years, including two from the Middle East.
- The Uproar Over 'Transracialism'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Discusses 'transracialism' in relation to gender identity and self identification.
- What Does Science Tell Us About Race?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Six points about the complex relation between scientific research and the reality of human group differences.
- What Is Wrong With Multiculturalism? [Part 1]
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Thoughts about iimmigration, identity, diversity and multiculturalism.
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