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McCain's Race Ad

Ellen Feldman | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

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Ellen Feldman

The impetus for the absurd McCain ad was Obama's riotous European welcome. There is a certain irony in that as this summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Notting Hill Riots.

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Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rape, Depression-Era Alabama, Sexists, Sexual Politics, Blue States, North, Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Gender, Scottsboro, Reacists, South, Red States, Communist Party, Langston Hughes, Hillary Clinton, Prostitute, 2008 Election and Race, 2008 Election and Sexism, Race, Feminism, 2008 Election and Gender, 2008 Election and Racism, 2008 Election and Feminism, Politics News
Ellen Feldman

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

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75 Years After Scottsboro Racial Profiling In Jury Selection Is Alive and Well

Ellen Feldman | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Death Sentence, Racial Bias in Jury Selection, Scottsboro, Black and Jewish Cooperation, Jim Crow, Permeptory Strikes, Batson v. Kentucky, Rape, Snyder v. Louisiana, Barack Obama, Fourteenth Amendment, Miller-El, Politics News
Ellen Feldman

While the ruling in favor of an African-American ex-marine found guilty by an all-white jury is gratifying, it does not go to the heart of racial injustice in the criminal justice system.

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