On prejudice: a global perspective

Part 1 On xenophobia and genocide : the past and the present

Sect. 1 The past revisited : against forgetting

The offended / Anne Hebért

From Candide (the slave he mett ...) / Voltaire

From The Congo : an outpost of progress / Joseph Conrad

The world of the slaves / Jan Rogozinski

Sweating and whipping / Nicolás Guillén

Africa, abused continent : the roots of war and imperialism / W.E.B. Du Bois

The song of the slaves / Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The pilgrim invasion / William Apes of the Pequod Nation

Germ warfare against the Indians / Chief Blackbird

A friend of the Indians / Joseph Brichac

Fighting the Mexicans / Geronimo

Memoir of a Sauk warrior / Black Hawk

To John Brown / A. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Bury me in a free land / A. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

From narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass

Toward a personal history / Rochelle Ratner

A visit to Belzec / William Heyen

The yellow star and the pink triangle : sexual politics in the Third Reich / Jack Nusan Porter

Men in history / William Heyen

I am a child of the Holocaust / Merle Hoffman

We must share the crime / Marguerite Duras

Ravages of war / Jose Emilio Pacheco

The Armenian experience of genocide / The Zoryan Institute

Songs of bread / Diana Der-Hovanessian

An Armenian looking at newsphotos of the Cambodian deathwatch / Diana Der-Hovanessian

Massacre and murderous butchery : U.S. conquest of the Philippines / Mark Twain [and others]

Hitler and the gypsies : a genocide that must be remembered / Dora E. Yates

Hiroshima was a war crime / Shigetoshi Iwamatsu

A brief history of women in a man's world / Marilyn French

Women's brains / Stephen Jay Gould

The witch hunts / Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

Nuclear bomb testing on human guinea pigs : Bikini, Rongelap, Utirik, Kwajalein / Darlene Keju-Johnson

Sect. 2 The present reflected in the past remembered

Everything is wonderful / Jayne Cortez

The race factor in international politics / Hugh Tinker

Genocide is a new word for an old crime / Jack Nusan Porter

Watching himan rights : mass denationalizations / Aryeh Neier

A nation of nations : we the people. / Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The American neo-nazi movement / Elinor Langer

In the face of hatred / James Wright

Germany's right-wing revival : bashers / Frank Thaler

The Hitler spring / Eugene Montale

In Europe immigrants are needed not wanted / Alan Riding

Extreme prejudice toward Polish Americans / Rachel Toor

From Blood of My Blood : an extraordinary bigotry / Richard Gambino

From tThe Japanese Today : race prejudice pervades the world / Edwin O. Reischauer

From Turning Japanese : the resentment Americans have towrad the rising Asian economic powers / David Mura

From Tales of the Bazaar / Robert D. Kaplan

Racism and the Australian Aborigines / Julian Burger

Abd then the perfect truth of hatred / Philip Appleman

From Sentenced to Silence : religion is known to be a dangerous topic for writers / Siobhan Dowd

Drama in cell 1081 / Lilia Quindoza-Santiago

Justifiable anger : excerots from public speeches / Malcolm X

Three days and a question / Grace Paley

From Second Class Citizen : sorry no coloureds / Buchi Emecheta

Right now / Milton Kessler

Racism and the war on drugs / Clarence Lusane

Reading poems in public / Maurice Kenny

Central America vanishing forests endangered peoples / Alan Weisman and Sandy Tolan

The United Fruit Company / Pablo Neruda

The Americans / Tran Thi Nga

Prejudice against the handicapped / Chris Gillespie

The small mute boy and the small mad boy / Federico Garcia Lorca

From looking to the future [of the former U.S.S.R.] / Elena Bonner

The disintegration of Yugoslavia / Lenard J. Cohen

Chinese seizure of Tibet / Julian Burger

Burma : a nation of prisoners / Paula Green

The sexualization of racism / Calvin C. Hernton

On being crazy / W.E.B. Du Bois

Racism and homophobia / Phillip Brian Harper

Genocidal ideology : trauma and cure / Robert J. Lifton with Eric Markusen

Man is endowed with a strong aggressive nature / Sigmund Freud

Baby Villon / Philip Levine

Our need for enemies / Dorothy Rowe / The need for scapegoates / Robert Coles

Lampshades of human skin / Daniela Gioseffi

Our earth is a vulnerable abused place / Maurice F. Strong

From Earth in the Balance / Al Gore

Amazon rain forest : missing the people for the trees / Susan Hecht and Alexander Cockburn

From the garden of evil / Stanley Barkan

From Planetary Feminism : the politics of the 21st century / Robin Morgan

My country is the world / Virginia Woolf

Ain't I a woman / Sojourner Truth

Ethnically cleansed or cleaning women / Lucia Maria Perillo

Sky woman and her sisters / Paula Gunn Allen

Part 2 Cultural destruction and cultural affirmation

Language / Bei Dao

From The Language of Opression / Haig A. Bosmajian

Teothuacán / Carole Stone

If Black english ain't a language then tell me what is / James Baldwin

From The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples : cultural collapse / Julian Berger

From The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples : missionary childhood / Sharon Venne

African language writing / Phyllis Bischof

From Breaking the Silence : strategic imperatives for preserving culture / Robert Viscusi

The old Italians dying / Lawrence Ferlinghetti

English revisited / Carolyne Wright

From Make-Believe media : Make-believe history / Michael Parenti

The colonisation of our Pacific Island / Chailang Palacios

Trumpets from the island of their eviction / Martin Espada

White earth land struggle : omissions and stereotypes / Winona La Duke

Reporting terrorism : the experience of Northern Ireland / Brian Hamilton-Tweedale

Name in print / Langston Hughes

Say French / D.H. Melhelm

Beyond belief L the press and the holocaust / Deborah E. Lipstadt

Invisible victims / Martin A. Lee and Gloria Channon

An ocean away a world apart : the same old hatreds / Andrei Codrescu

Brought up on right-wing anthologies / Amiri Baraka

From literary hegemonies / Helen Barolini

Orange : hiring / Harriet Zinnes

Strangers in the village / David Mura

Modern secrets : last night I dreamt in Chinese ... / Shirley Geok-Lin Lim

What means switch / Gish Jen

The souls of Black folks / W.E.B. Du Bois

Blacks with a capital B / Gwendolyn Brooks

Critical thinking : racism and education in the U.S. third world / Sharon Spencer

Justice denied in Massachusetts / Edna St. Vincent Millay

Immigrant education L from the transcripts of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial / Nicolo Sacco

Public school no. 18 : paterson, New Jersey / Maria Mazziotti-Gillan

The wife's story

Bharati Mukherjee

Multiculturalism : E Pluribus Plures / Diane Ravitch

Part 3 Beyond culture and prejudice toward pride and tolerance

Proxemics in a cross-cultural context : Japan and the Arab world / Edward T. Hall

Against stereotyping : the native Irishman a converted Sazon / (Anonymous)

The leaders of the crowd / W.B. Yeats

America L the multinational society / Ishmael Reed

The law of love and nonviolent action / Leo Tolstoy

From Science and Liberty / Aldous Huxley

Satygraha / Mahatma Gandhi

I am against fanatics a dialog between Elie Wiesel and Merle Hoffman

Nationalism is always oppressive / Amiri Baraka

Meeting in Jerusalem / Mona Elaine Adilman

A forgiving land : postwar Vietnam / Lady Borton

To Hannah Vo-Dinh a young poet of Vietnam / Fran Castan

From The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples : a global voice / Julian Burger

From Speech to the U.S. Congress / Nelson Mandela

Yes Mandela / Dennis Brutus

Breaking the chains / Bishop Desmond Tutu

Still I rise / Maya Angelou

From On Loving Your Enemies and Declarations of Independence / Martin Luther King, Jr.

Caria / Yannis Ristos

From Fourth of July Speech to a White Audience / Frederick Douglass

From a Bench by the Side of the Road / Toni Morrison

There's been a misunderstanding about the sixties / Leone Bennett, Jr.

For Medgar Evers / David Ignatow

Coaltitions of indigenous peoples will the white man understand / Julian Burger and Paulinho Paiakan

What treaty that the White Man kept has the Red Man broken / Sitting Bull

From Man's Most Dangerous Myth : the fallacy of race / Ashley Montagu

From Leaves of Grass : I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman

From Democracy : a public speech / Barbara Jordan

True democracy demands moral conviction / Vacláv Havel

The riot of colors / Tess Onwueme

Children are color-blind / Genny Lim

From The Poem of the End : poets of truth / Marina Tsvetayeva

Worldwide and Awake / Fazil Hüsnü Daglarca

Appendix : slected human rights delclarations and statements on race

The Seville statement on violence / UNESCO International Scholars (Seville 1986)

Two statements on race / UNESCO International Scholars

Proposals on the biological aspects of race (Moscow 1964)

Statement on race and racial prejudice (Paris 1967)

Women's Pentagon Action Unity Statement / Collectively Written (April 1982)

Disabled People's Bill of Rights / American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities

The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.