Initiative Reports
Beyond Racism: Highlights & Publications
This brochure introduces the Initiative and summarizes several of its important findings and themes. The brochure also includes a listing of CHRI Publications.
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Beyond Racism: Overview Report
This 88-page report is a detailed overview of the findings and opinions of CHRI’s International Advisory and Working Group(IWAG). It includes an analysis of the concepts of "race" and racism, an historical overview, first-person profiles of outstanding Americans, Brazilians, and South Africans in the struggle against racism, reflections of IWAG members, a large number of photographs, comparative statistical charts, and chapters on the "lessons" of the past and new, future imperatives.
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Three
Nations at the Crossroads
This 115-page report is a collection of 6 original essays portraying the history, conditions, and current issues of race and racism in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States. The portraits include over 50 tables detailing current and recent trends and data on each nation’s struggle with racism. The report also contains comprehensive historical time lines of key events related to race in the three countries.
The authors are: Abdias do Nascimento of the Brazilian Federal Legislature; Elisa Larkin Nascimento, co-founder, IPEFRO; Brazilian scholar Nelson do Valle Silva; Wilmot James, dean, University of Cape Town, South African sociologist Jeffrey Lever; Colin Bundy, Vice-Chancellor, University of Witwatersrand; Charles V. Hamilton, professor emeritus, Columbia University; and Ira Glasser, executive director, the American Civil Liberties Union.
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In Their Own Voices
This accessible, topically organized reader features articles, speeches, and excerpts by participants in Initiative meetings in the three nations on a wide range of subjects including human rights, civil society, economic inequality, education, women’s movements, and affirmative action.
Authors include Ellis Cose, US journalist; Frene Ginwala, Speaker of the South African Parliament; Alex Boraine, vice chair, South Africa Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Mahmood Mamdani, professor, University of Cape Town, South African Scholar Njabulo S. Ndebele; Gloria Steinem, contributing editor, Ms. Magazine; Susan V. Berresford, president, the Ford Foundation; US Assistant Secretary of Labor Bernard Anderson; Benedita da Silva, Vice-Governor of Brazil’s state of Rio de Janeiro; Antonio Sérgio Guimarães, professor, University of São Paulo; Brazilian human rights scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro; and many others. (81 pages)
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Color Collage
This volume of occasional papers (120 pages) covers a diverse range of contemporary issues affecting Brazil, South Africa, and the United States which include education, globalization, economic inequality, human relations, the role of religious communities, and international remedies for racial discrimination.
Authors include Antonia Hernandes, president, Mexican American Legal Defense Fund; Reid Andrews, professor, University of Pittsburgh, the late C. Eric Lincoln, professor emeritus, Duke University; Emmett Carson, president, the Minneapolis Foundation; South African scholar Mandy Taylor and others.
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