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The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America is a 2005 book by educator and author Jonathan Kozol. It describes how, in the United States, black and Hispanic students tend to be concentrated in schools where they make up almost the entire student body.
Medical Apartheid won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-fiction. [3] Washington's work helped lead to the American Medical Association's apology to the nation’s black physicians in 2008 and the removal of the James Marion Sims statue from Central Park in 2018. [4] [5] [6]
The "New American apartheid" refers to the allegation that U.S. drug and criminal policies in practice target blacks on the basis of race. The radical left-wing [ citation needed ] web-magazine ZNet featured a series of 4 articles on "The New American Apartheid" in which it drew parallels between the treatment of blacks by the American justice ...
The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans who migrated from the British Isles to the Antebellum South.
The American Committee on Africa (ACOA) was the first major group devoted to the anti-apartheid campaign. [8] Founded in 1953 by Paul Robeson and a group of civil rights activist, the ACOA encouraged the U.S. government and the United Nations to support African independence movements, including the National Liberation Front in Algeria and the Gold Coast drive to independence in present-day ...
The Negro Motorist Green Book (also, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, or Green-Book) was a guidebook for African American roadtrippers. It was founded by Victor Hugo Green , an African American postal worker from New York City, and was published annually from 1936 to 1966.
Harriet A. Washington is an American writer and medical ethicist. She is the author of the book Medical Apartheid, which won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. [2] She has also written books on environmental racism and the erosion of informed consent in medicine.
She is known for her research on racial segregation in the United States with Douglas Massey, [3] [4] with whom she co-authored the book American Apartheid. [5] A book, well reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, when first published. [6] Upon retiring from SUNY Albany, she received the Robert and Helen Lynd Lifetime Achievement Award from the ...