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Tamara K. Nopper
Why the AFL-CIO Must Address Black Criminalization and (Un)Employment
19 Sep 2012
by Tamara K. Nopper and Kenyon Farrow Blacks are more likely than whites or Latinos to be members of labor unions. Yet, the AFL-CIO seems not to recognize the multiple challenges that face…
Tamara K. Nopper
The “Be the Help” Campaign and Black Disappearance among the Multiracial Left
07 Mar 2012
by Tamara K. Nopper An alliance of convenience was struck between the makers of The Help, the film about African American domestic workers in the civil rights era, and the National Domestic…
Tamara K. Nopper
Why Obama’s “Black Jobs Plan” Won’t Resolve Black Unemployment
27 Sep 2011
by Tamara K. Nopper President Obama tried to give his Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner audience the impression that his jobs bill specifically targets 100,000 Black businesses as job…
Tamara K. Nopper
Black Unemployment in the Multiracial Small Business Industry
26 Jan 2011
by Tamara K. Nopper Do small, immigrant businesses get a “pass” when it comes to racial discrimination in employment? “There is a good deal of literature examining how employers prefer non-Black…
Tamara K. Nopper
Why I Oppose Repealing DADT and Passage of the Dream Act
22 Sep 2010
by Tamara K. Nopper Progressives generally line up behind repeal the military’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policies on homosexuality and in favor of the Dream Act, which provides a route to citizenship…
Tamara K. Nopper
Lynching: Black Resistance and Capitulation
06 Jun 2007
by BAR contributing editor Tamara K. Nopper Writer and activist L. V. Gaither wasn't surprised to discover three Black faces in a photo of the crowd that watched the lynching of Jesse Washington in…