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Race & Race Relations
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Immigration, African Americans, and Race Discourse
Stephen Steinberg
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We believe this article begins an important conversation on the left. We will be publishing various responses to it in our next issue, along with a reply from Stephen Steinberg. In addition, this article will be published in the Winter issue of New Labor Forum, together with a different set of responses and a reply from Steinberg. We urge readers to follow this debate in both venues. -- Eds. |
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
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Roundtable on Immigration and African Americans
Stephen Steinberg's "Immigration, African Americans and Race Discourse" in our last issue of New Politics (#39) elicited several responses. Here they are with Steinberg's rejoinder. Steinberg's article, together with a different set of responses and a reply from Steinberg, also appears in the Winter issue of New Labor Forum. We urge readers to follow this debate in both venues. - EDS.
Articles in the SymposiumThe Intra-Immigrant Dilemma, Alan Aja
Mobilizing Immigrants and Blacks, Peter Drucker
Alliances Needed, Ron Hayduk
Finger Pointing Toward "Freedom Now!" Michael Hirsch
Another American Dilemma, Gilbert Jonas
Reintroducing the Black/White Divide in Racial Discourse, Gregory D. Squires
Response, Stephen Steinberg
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Neoliberal Strategies to Defuse a Powder Keg in Europe: the "Decade of Roma Inclusion" and its Rationale
Bill Templer
Empire is characterized by the close proximity of extremely unequal populations, which creates a situation of permanent social danger and requires the powerful apparatuses of the society of control to ensure separation and guarantee the new management of social space.[1]
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Response
Stephen Steinberg
I knew when I wrote my piece that I was walking through a minefield of controversy, first of all because I challenge the dominant discourse on immigration and call into question many of the orthodoxies of a new generation of immigration scholars. I therefore came prepared to engage in verbal battle with outraged critics whose scholarship has been called into question. Alas, they did not show up at the table!
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Reintroducing the Black/White Divide in Racial Discourse
Gregory D. Squires
Does it matter that most of the problems that disproportionately affect black Americans don't stem from racism -- or at any rate, modern day racism? . . . These issues just aren't particularly black anymore. William Raspberry[1]
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Another American Dilemma: Race vs. Immigration
Gilbert Jonas
Ever since America's negro slaves were emancipated after the Civil War, our nation's generous immigration policies have worked against the interests and advancement of African Americans.
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
A Reply to Stephen Steinberg: Finger-Pointing Toward "Freedom Now!"
Michael Hirsch
I imagine Stephen Steinberg astride a muscular white horse, whip in one hand, pistol in the other, riding to scourge the American left of its racial amnesia. Or he's a biblical prophet, imbued with the divine spirit and setting the highest standards for the community. Sometimes the need for such a seer is self-evident, and sometimes Steinberg fairly meets it. Sometimes.
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Alliances Needed
Ron Hayduk
Steve Steinberg highlights a critical issue at an important time. Steinberg is right to draw our attention to the impact of immigration on the project of progressive politics, particularly as it relates to the plight of African Americans.
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
Mobilizing Immigrants and Blacks
Peter Drucker
As Stephen Steinberg says, "There is nothing progressive about flooding the lower echelons of the labor market with desperate immigrants who depress wages . . . It is also problematic when the nation imports workers to fill higher echelons of the job pyramid. . . ." Progressives should support elements of his policy agenda such as vigorously enforcing anti-discrimination laws, expanding affirmative action and creating a job corps for minority youth.
| Winter 2006 | Vol:X-4 | Whole #: 40 |
The Intra-Immigrant Dilemma
Alan Aja
"Black people should do more to help themselves. . . . We worked for everything we have. They should too." (Cuban-American Miami resident)
"[Whites] are racists by tradition and they at least know that what they're doing is not quite right . . . Cubans don't even think there is anything wrong with it. That is the way they've always related, period." (African-American Miami resident)*