NEW YORK (AP) - Many of the five million New Yorkers stopped, questioned, and sometimes frisked by police in the past decade were wrongly targeted because of their race, lawyers for four men who said they were illegally stopped said Monday. New York Police Department lawyers countered that officers must go where the crime is - and the crime is overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods.
Just when we appear to be making some headway in uncovering and confronting racism, sexism, ageism, and a host of other “isms” in the workplace, a new inequity has been identified. The issue of workplace classism has arisen at a time when a national conversation is taking place about American socioeconomic classes. So classism at work is a new problem, right? No, classism has been prevalent in the American workplace since the days of cottage industries.
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - Many Brazilians cast their country as a racial democracy where people of different groups have long intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper, or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation.
In Brazil, whites are at the top of the social pyramid, dominating professions of wealth, prestige, and power. Dark-skinned people are at the bottom of the heap, left to clean up after others, take care of their children, and the elderly.
Latino population growth impacts racial divides all across America in many ways. Such fast growth of Latinos is blurring traditional black-white color lines, testing the limits of civil rights laws and reshaping political alliances as "whiteness" begins to lose its numerical dominance.
