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Ralph Bunche and the Jewish Problem
RALPH BUNCHE AND THE JEWISH PROBLEM Clare L. Spark, Ph.D., Prepared for the conference “Ralph Bunche: Scholar, Activist, Bureaucrat” UCLA, 2-21-04 at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American...
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The Offing of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Bunche
Stanford U. demonstration, 1980s During the presidential campaign of 2008, I wrote an essay for History News Network http://hnn.us/articles/48809.html. I am posting the unedited version, which is also...
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Index to Black Power blogs
Judith Bernstein’s allusion to Black Power Illustrated is an invitation to feminist artist Judith Bernstein’s new exhibition of work not seen since 1973. Her work was famously censored by the...
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“Multiculturalism”: cui bono?
David Cameron I have seen numerous cable news reports of British P. M. David Cameron’s recent speech in Munich, where he spoke about “multiculturalism” as failed social policy, thus joining Angela...
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Remembering Ralph Bunche, American
Ralph Bunche at UCLA, 1926 Dr. Ralph Bunche, political scientist and Acting Mediator in the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1948-49, did not want to remembered as an African-American or an African American....
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Carnegie Corp. and “the Negro problem”
Gunnar Myrdal and family, 1938 Diane Ravitch and other education historians frequently cite Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma as a landmark publication in the history of American reform, but they do...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Frederick Douglass not black enough I have just listened to an 8 minute rant against the OWS protesters by podcaster Adam Corolla:...
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The Race Card
Sumner bio paperback cover art This blog responds to the playing of “the race card” by such politicians as Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and Jesse Jackson, plus a cast of thousands of...
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Nell Painter’s History of White People
Rather than summarize the scope of Nell Painter’s book, I ask you to read this review by a sympathetic colleague. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Gordon-t.html?pagewanted=all. As Linda...
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POTUS, Michelle, and the end of the democratic republic
I didn’t expect to blog about the Oscars 2013, but the denouement, in which [naughty] Jack Nicholson handed over his duties in announcing the Oscar for Best Picture to the First Lady, dressed for the...
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Labor Day 2013
Alison Saar sculpture palma y palmara On the history of this holiday see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day. For a conservative response to the crypto-communism seen in this celebration, see...
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Ben Hecht v. Ben Urwand, the un-Jewish Left, and ‘assimilated’ Jews
Ben Hecht I have read four times the controversial Ben Urwand book that claims that Hollywood was in bed with Hitler. Upon rereading, I saw that Urwand’s sensationalistic argument that Hollywood moguls...
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The Organization of American Historians taking sides
[From Rick Shenkman’s report on day 2 of the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, 2014:] The major event of the day was the late-afternoon plenary session devoted to “historians...
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Promises made by liberal elites to the Greatest Generation
This short blog is part of an ongoing effort to explain the differences between communist ideology and its rival, social democracy, also known as “socially responsible capitalism.” [From my article on...
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Miracle Man Ralph Bunche saves the UN
Bunche and Count Bernadotte, 1949My Bunche notes from UCLA Special Collections, suggest revisions of Sir Brian Urquhart’s Bunche biography and my own previous work on Bunche and his politics. Though a...
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“Feminized” and “jewified” modernity, and my breakup with Ralph Bunche
I recently went through my notes from the Ralph Bunche papers at UCLA. You may remember that he became Acting Mediator for the Arab-Israeli conflict after the Stern Gang assassinated Count Folke...
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Improving “race relations”: Left, Right, and Middle
The race riot in Ferguson, Missouri (August 10, 2014 onward), is a reminder that we have made little progress in resolving the vexed question of “race relations” in America. This blog suggests that...
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What “black community”?
[This is the second of two blogs on the uproar in Ferguson Missouri, Thanksgiving week, 2014. For the first in the series see...
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Antisemitism vs. “anti-Zionism”: is there a difference?
citelighter.com http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/France-envoy-to-JPost-Jewish-crisis-nothing-to-do-with-Israel-and-the-Palestinians-387738. Headline: “France envoy to JPost: Jewish crisis has...
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HBO’s “Night Will Fall”
HBO, with the supervision and assistance of Brits (Helena Bonham-Carter narrated, and the Imperial War Museum played a part), threw a bone to “Zionists” this week by airing a documentary about an...
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