Racial

Magazine articles on racial issues or of special interest to minorities.

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Sports Central December 11, 2003 M. Edward Guest	The Bitter Irony of the NFL's Past It is very easy to downgrade or diminish the accomplishments of players in a segregated league, because, well, they simply were not playing the highest level of competition.
BusinessWeek November 3, 2003 Robert J. Barro	What's In A Name For Black Job Seekers? A new study shows that the more black-sounding a person's name, the more likely the parents have a lower socioeconomic status. Employers thus might infer that a job seeker with a black-sounding name is more likely to have grown up in a less educated and poorer family, which could influence perceived potential job success.
Registered Rep. October 23, 2003	Learn Spanish: Grow Your Business Hispanics are woefully underserved by the financial services industry. With rising incomes and a growing population Latinos are now being targeted by financial services companies.
Entrepreneur November 2003 Aliza Pilar Sherman	A Matter of Culture Do minority women face issues other entrepreneurs never do?
Inc. October 2003 Patrick J. Sauer	Minority Banks are Called to Account California's Chinese banks come under fire for being, well, too Chinese.
Fast Company September 2003 Fast Company	Affirmative Action, Deciphered On June 23, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on two related cases that, together, posed possibly the most important legal test of affirmative-action strategies since the Alan Bakke decision in 1978.
American History Robert Dallek	John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Quandary In the two years after he became president, John F. Kennedy faced no more daunting domestic issue than the tension between African Americans demanding equal treatment under the Constitution and segregationists refusing to end the South's system of apartheid.
Wild West William A. Dobak	Buffalo Soldiers: Sorting Fact from Fiction Known as buffalo soldiers, though they did not use that term themselves, the black servicemen who saw duty in the Wild West generally had the same burdens and privileges as their white counterparts.
Job Journal August 10, 2003	Secrets of Their Success Breaking down the barriers to success in corporate America: Cracking the Corporate Code - Revealing Success Stories of 32 African-American Executives is a guidebook designed to help the outsider succeed in business.
ifeminists July 29, 2003 David A. White	Hate Speech in Trendy Places In a society where pride and even chauvinism is actively encouraged in many nonwhite communities, the idea of someone challenging anti-white hate speech can seem strange indeed. But it's the right thing to do.
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