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What's the purpose behind any label?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)
Rinku Sen's piece "Are Immigrants and Refugees People of Color?" [July/Aug. 2007] contextualizes the use of the label "people of color," while maintaining a "transitional tone" that maintains an openness to other options.
Nevertheless, I would like to contest a bit further the label "people of color" ... just to undertake the role of a progressive devil's advocate of sorts.
The term "people of color" when I was growing up in Puerto Rico (in Spanish) had the connotation of a euphemism (and condescension) instead of the liberatory connotations that Rinku argues the term has here in the U.S. [And while] the term attempts to broaden a fighting camp of those marginalized (instead of just talking about "Blacks"), that broadening is at the expense of excluding. By excluding the "white portion" of the world population, I think it performs a ...
- No political race is creating more tension than Maryland's U.S. Senate skirmish...
- Magazine article from: Jet Booker, Simeon August 22, 2005 700+ words
No political race is creating more tension than Maryland's U.S. Senate skirmish between Democrat ex-Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a former Black Caucus...
- Commentary: A political race for the ages.
- Magazine article from: Long Island Business News September 12, 2008 700+ words
...this closeness heightened the excitement, but the next two months will be a marathon as Barack Obama and John McCain run a political race to see which one will become the next president. Several days before the Democratic convention, Obama picked longtime...
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- Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) July 25, 2005 700+ words
...an elected office, the campaign to replace the retiring Sandra Day O'Connor could be as intense as any high-profile political race. This distinctive judicial contest produces an unusual kind of candidate who says as little as possible, especially on...
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- Newspaper article from: Community College Week October 28, 2002 700+ words
Cuyamaca College auto-technology instructor and racer Pat Garity's stock car is now part of a political race. If approved next month by local voters in and around El Cajon, Calif., Proposition R would compel the state to float a $207...
- Political race.(In Your Own Words ...)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country January 1, 2009 700+ words
We received a number of letters regarding "First and Foremost," Holly Peterson's November "Social Graces" column. Written weeks in advance of the election, long before Barack Obama's history-making victory, the piece sought to strike a balance in offering suggestions on life in the White House to
- POLITICAL RACE: .(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Advertising Age August 14, 2000 700+ words
Yamaha Motor Corp. uses politics as a jumping off point in a new print campaign for its 2001 motocross bikes, playing off its leadership in the category. Ads from Marshall Advertising & Design, Costa Mesa, Calif., break this month in enthusiast publications. Copywriter: Roger Feldman. Art
- HEATED POLITICAL RACE NEARS FINISH.
- Newspaper article from: The Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) September 16, 2002 700+ words
Byline: DAVID QUICK Mount Pleasant voters to cast ballots as 15 candidates vie for council seats MOUNT PLEASANT-Judgment day is upon four Town Council members who helped lead a revolution four years ago that swept four incumbents out of office in 1998 on a platform of controlled growth. On Tuesday,
- California Political Race Allows Candidates to Compete for High-Tech Vote.
- News wire article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) November 1, 2000 700+ words
Byline: Lori Aratani Nov. 1--In the combative 15th Congressional district race, Republican Jim Cunneen and Democrat Mike Honda are vying to show voters just how high-tech savvy they are. High tech has more resonance in this district than in some neighboring ones, said Terry Christensen, chairman of
- Spam Creates Political-Race Headaches; Campaigns Struggle with Hi-Tech Tools.
- Newspaper article from: Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) January 30, 2004 700+ words
Byline: Tim Lemke Jan. 30--Political campaigns have found that some of the state-of-the-art technologies they are using to attract voters can be a liability if they aren't handled carefully, and that they are vulnerable to being hijacked. The campaigns of Democrats vying for the presidency are
- California Political Race Allows Candidates to Compete for High-Tech...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aratani, Lori November 2, 2000 700+ words
Nov. 1--In the combative 15th Congressional district race, Republican Jim Cunneen and Democrat Mike Honda are vying to show voters just how high-tech savvy they are. High tech has more resonance in this district than in some neighboring ones, said Terry Christensen, chairman of the political
Source: HighBeam Research, What's the purpose behind any label?(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)