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How Race is Lived in America.

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| September 22, 2002 | Sen, Chaiti | COPYRIGHT 2002 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

by New York Times Correspondents

The most compelling essay in How Race is Lived in America describes the horrific working conditions of a slaughterhouse in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Workers are segregated and scapegoated as a company strategy. Racial mistrust and competition eat away at the possibility of positive human relations. The slaughtering of pigs becomes a metaphor for the slaughtering of the spirit. If there ever was a mainstream illustration of the desperate need for multiracial organizing, this is it.

The compilation of articles from the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning series at least succeeds in combating the notion that race is no longer a factor in ...

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