Salmagundi No. 104-105 / Fall 1994 – Winter 1995  Table of ContentsRace & Racism: American Dilemmas Revisited I. Identity Politics, The Decline of Racism, Good vs. Bad Blacks, The Work Ethic, etc. II. What Happened to the Civil Rights Movement? Institutional Discrimination, The Law, New Agendas III. The Politics—and the Unforeseen Consequences—of Affirmative Action IV. Afrocentrism, “Difference,” Role Models and the Construction of Race V. The Underclass, Suburbanization, Localism, Immigrant Populations: Reconceiving Race and Racism Poems Newcomer by Robert Pinsky The Oxbow by Mary Maxwell Mtthew 5:22 by Jordan Smith For Radovan Lorkovic by John peck Not Visiting the Dalai Lama in Vermont by Stephen Sandy Venetian Ode by Frederick Tibbetts Fight or Flight by Miriam Flock Peack Season by Jane Shore “I Did Speak of Some Distressful Stroke…” by Lorrie Goldensohn The Other White Meat by David Citino Two Poems by Alfred Corn Three Essays by George Konrad Remembering Elias Canetti Roberto Calasso on Canetti Claudio Magris on Canetti Ten Aphorisms by Elias Canetti Zaniness by Daniel Harris An Interview with Mark Morris by Maura Keefe and Marc Woodworth Allergy by Bia Lowe The Sense of Existing by François Flahault |