Colorlines Magazine articles from September 2004

Colorlines Magazine archives from September 2004

A fighting chance.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... These days everyone seems to be spoiling for a fight. Clinton climbing back in the ring with Limbaugh. The ghost of Reagan against the phantom menace of evil empire past. All of Western civilization, if Samuel Huntington is to be believed, in...

Love and nostalgia for Reagan.(Rant; Ronald Reagan)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Love and nostalgia for Reagan. The 40th president is being hailed for ending the Cold War and saving America. We'll remember him for the phrase "welfare queen," ignoring the AIDS crisis and waging war in Central America and on affirmative...

10,000 ads in your pocket.(Rant; Apple iPod)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... 10,000 ads in your pocket. Billboards for iPods feature black silhouettes dancing and holding their white iPods. We get the point: blacks got groove, so buy music and be urban cool like them. But with iPods selling for as much as $500 a pop and...

The money and the message.(Rant; Stanford Review)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... The money and the message. Stanford students voted to cut $40,000 in funding for MECHA, a national Chicano student organization, after the school's conservative newspaper ran articles describing nationalist statements in the group's founding...

No need to run for this.(Rant; racial stereotypes)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... No need to run for this. Lest we forget that their marathon is happening in Hawai'i, the National AIDS Marathon Training Program picked a hula dancer doll for its brochures and outreach materials. How many times can we say it? Don't burden a...

Public altars hating or Reagan.(Rave)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Public altars hating or Reagan. Many blessings to the people who put up a memorial at the corner of 10th Street and 7th Avenue in Brooklyn saying "Remember Reagan" and listing the atrocities of his administration: apartheid, AIDS and illegal...

If we lose the White House, maybe we should try the city council in Athens, Greece.(Rave)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... If we lose the White House, maybe we should try the city council in Athens, Greece. Two years ago, Boston University alumna and Brooklyn native, Yvette Jarvis, became the first black American on the Athens City Council. A former pro basketball...

One more step toward banning the R-Word.(Redskins)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... One more step toward banning the R-Word. California's Senate Education Committee approved a bill in June that would ban state schools from using the word "Redskins" for their mascots. The applause goes to Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg (D-Los...

Forget the Nascar dad.(Rave)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Forget the Nascar dad. The swing voter is Latino and Asian, and a new campaign Immigrant Vote 2004 hopes to register these voters and get them to the polls. It's the handiwork of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, Center for Immigrant...

Omar Mohamed's daughter.(In Focus)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2004... Marian Mohamed, 11, wonders when her father is coming home. At a rally April 24, her family and more than 150 supporters protested Omar Abdi Mohamed's detention in front of San Diego's Federal Building. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mohamed,...

Who we are: Suheir Hammad answers Samuel Huntington, whose controversial new book blames Latino immigration for causing an American identity crisis.(To the Point)
September 22, 2004... Samuel P. Huntington's new book, Who Are We? could also be called The Hispanic Panic, or Adios Amigos, or even Selena was no Marilyn. A decade after promising the Clash of Civilizations, Mr. Huntington is back, to remind us of the purity, honor...

Missing jose: the day California lost its Latinos, and cried about it.(Q & A)
September 22, 2004... Early on in the new film A Day Without a Mexican, a senator's wife picks up two Latinos at a street corner and hires them to paint the family mini-mansion. When the senator explodes--is she trying to ruin him politically?--the manicured fake...

Between two Americas: in the post-Sept. 11 era, state and local governments are being forced to choose sides on the immigrant rights debate.(Cover)(Cover Story)
September 22, 2004... Philadelphia, San Francisco, Alaska, and Vermont are among the 120-plus cities and states that have passed resolutions denouncing the Patriot Act as a "threat to fundamental rights." Yet Alabama, Colorado and Los Angeles County are seeking...

Gaily ever after: is gay marriage the new civil rights struggle or has it co-opted a legacy?(Cover)
September 22, 2004... That night, the room was packed at the gay community center in New York's Greenwich Village. Surely something had to be done. Bush had announced his support for a proposed federal amendment that would effectively ban gay marriage. ...

The rise and fall of the BJP; in little more than 20 years, the Hindu right had gone from being on the fringe of Indian politics to one of the nation's most powerful parties. How were they finally defeated?(Cover)
September 22, 2004... Human rights activist Teesta Setalvad counts May 13, 2004 as one of the happiest days of her life. It was the day that the Indian National Congress scored a resounding victory in the Parliamentary elections, defeating the right-wing Bharatiya...

Running on race: in one of the country's most-watched elections, Barack Obama may be defining a new kind of racialized candidacy as he tries to become the third black U.S. Senator in history.(Cover)
September 22, 2004... Barack Obama didn't intend to take over the meeting, but that's what ended up happening. It was a few weeks after he had rolled to a surprisingly wide victory over six rivals in the Illinois Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, and he was...

What a bargain: the widespread practice of plea bargaining has increased repercussions for people of color who end up literally signing away their lives on the dotted line.(Cover)
September 22, 2004... At one time he was known as Tim Jefferson (name has been changed), the youngest child of a black middle-class family. A 34-year-old college graduate who studied mortuary science, he was employed as a licensed mortician. He would quip: "It's not...

Neo-liberation: as South Africa celebrates its first decade of freedom, the country struggles with deepening economic apartheid and conflicts with the ANC.(Cover)(African National Congress)
September 22, 2004... In the wake of South Africa's elections and in the midst of nationwide celebrations of the "First Decade of Freedom" from apartheid rule, various political and social forces within South Africa are assessing the gains of the last 10 years and...

Hit the ground swinging: with the highest disapproval rating of the president and the lowest voting averages, young people have the potential to swing this election--and organizers are tapping into them with campaigns high on energy and low on cynicism.(Cover)
September 22, 2004... Every step out of the New York subway is "bombed" with the name of a swing state. "Ohio... Wisconsin... Florida... " take you up into the sunshine. At the top, scrawled in graffiti script is the message: "Have you called your friends in...

Even in Canada: a high-profile government sting that targeted 24 South Asian men has set off national controversy and a vibrant, immigrant-led defense.(Feature)
September 22, 2004... Early on the morning of August 14, 2003, 24 South Asian men awoke to the sound of their doors getting smashed in. Through a sting operation known as Project Thread where Canadian intelligence agencies sought out potential terrorist cells,...

Popularity, privilege and the white populists who populate the airwaves.(Feature)
September 22, 2004... After the sixth book arrived in the mail, I realized something might be going on here. Stupid White Men; Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot, Does Anyone Have a Problem With That: The Best of Politically Incorrect; Lies and the Lying Liars Who...

Kicked off the dial: the new liberal radio empire has pissed off more than just Rush Limbaugh by leasing time on ethnic radio stations.(Feature)
September 22, 2004... Air America Radio, the new liberal network, might be bent on destroying the right wing's dominance of talk shows, but it has perhaps a more troubling problem: securing spots on the airwaves for broadcasting. With media ownership increasingly in...

Straight from the barrios: Argentina's TV piquetera is transforming broadcast media into an instrument of the poor.(Feature)
September 22, 2004... The flyers, hung throughout the barrio, show a photograph of an unemployed worker: his face covered by a bandanna T-shirt as he climbs a telephone pole with an antenna in his hand. It's an advertisement for TV piquetera, a broadcast that is...

A good read: with a Pulitzer in tow, ethnic publishing imprints are on the rise. What will that mean for books by and about people of color?(Culture)
September 22, 2004... I couldn't quite believe it when I got the call that HarperCollins was interested in the book I was developing with my friend, Robyn Moreno--before we'd even written a proposal. We had been working on a collection of essays on the modern Latina...

Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua 1942-2004.(Culture)(Obituary)
September 22, 2004... Internationally acclaimed cultural theorist, creative writer and independent scholar Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua passed away on May 15, 2004, from diabetes-related complications. One of the boldest feminist thinkers and social justice activists...

Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... By David Cole, The New Press As the quagmire in Iraq deepens, the debate over national security has focused almost exclusively on U.S. foreign policy. Overshadowed are domestic policies of the war on terrorism. Georgetown Law Professor,...

Race records.
September 22, 2004... Shortly after 9/11, this crew of concerned New Yorkers wandered from their respective sounds (punk, jazz, pop) and found a common purpose in American Roots music. The sextet's debut is a delightful, heartening blend of blues, gospel, bluegrass...