Sorry, We Never Assume Readers Agree With Us

"...E.g., is this different from handicapped access laws or anti-segregation laws? It's murky. On the other hand, your pragmatic-sounding..."

Oct. 13, 2003 Postmarks

Naked City

Right-wingers freak out over "links" -- that is, Web links -- between MoveOn.org and the Commies.

"...to revive any other Fifties-era political strategies -- say, segregation? She responded by accusing us of "name-calling." We detected..."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Capitol Chronicle

The imposition of probation is the latest attempt of the GOP leadership to put minority senators in their place.

"...of those former Texas Dixiecrats coincidentally turned Republican after segregation was finally broken and minority Texans got the vote..."

Sept. 26, 2003 News Column by Michael King

From 380 Angles

Karen Kocher's multimedia 'Austin Past and Present' tells hundreds of stories in almost as many ways.

"...Reconstruction. And a look at the long history of segregation reminds us where we need to invest today. The..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Screens Feature by Michael May

El Diablo

Digging down into the depths of history (segregation) for the story of Willie "El Diablo" Wells and Austin black baseball.

July 4, 2003 Sports Feature by Michael Chamy

Bright Lights, Inner City

When Austin's Eastside music scene was lit up like Broadway

"...in the swing of things; the unlikely benefit of segregation was the tightly knit black community that thrived in..."

July 4, 2003 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Have You Ever Been to Carrascolendas?

The Bilingual Education Act in 1968 sparked an unprecedented number of bilingual television programs for children, and the Austin-produced children's series Carrascolendas, which premiered in 1970, was among the first.

"...of bilingual programs as a new form of educational segregation came from another. Throughout the 1970s, reports of ill-used..."

July 4, 2003 Screens Feature by Belinda Acosta

Sheet Music

Summer Reading

"...Pulitzer Prize-winning prism through which U.S. apartheid, genocide, and segregation is flayed bare. Think 1,000 riveting pages of Taylor..."

June 6, 2003 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Postmarks

Our readers talk back.

"...between those who advocate "mainstreaming," and those who advocate segregation. I am not aware of any other group for..."

May 16, 2003 Column

Page Two

Songs of democracy in distress

"...of hundred years of slavery and 100 years of segregation had no real-world consequences. Even if the best predictor..."

April 25, 2003 Column by Louis Black

Beaten at the Jailhouse?

An Austin woman claims a misdemeanor arrest led to a beating at the hands of Travis Co. jail guards

"...on the guard-biting incident, and she was placed in segregation and had her privileges revoked until she was released...."

Jan. 17, 2003 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Capitol Chronicle

Hopwood lawyer Steven Wayne Smith aspires to the Texas Supreme Court.

"...other social disparities left over from centuries of racial segregation. Rather, he finds it encouraging. Smith made that plain..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Column by Michael King

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

City Hall's M.O. and the sins of Vision Village

"...That vision is still cloudy in Austin. Age segregation, by policy or by market practice, is ruthless; truly..."

Oct. 11, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin @ Large: Austin at Large

The Envision Central Texas project is an opportunity for the citizens to plan our own destiny.

"...as bad, the water's just as scarce, and income segregation is even worse than it was before...."

Sept. 27, 2002 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Page Two

Anyway you cut it, I-35 is a major problem with no easy solution.

"...highway network system, was used to cement the deliberate segregation of Austin neighborhoods. Lest this seem like lefty paranoia,..."

Sept. 20, 2002 Column by Louis Black

Native Talent

Local filmmaker and UT RTF student Bennie Klain has been invited to screen his new short film, "Yada Yada," at the Sundance Film Festival. It's the second film he's ever made -- it's also his second film to show at Sundance.

"...Forum at each year's festival. Rather than resisting the segregation that arrangement might confer, Klain welcomes the opportunity. "The..."

Dec. 28, 2001 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

AISD De-Magnetized?

A proposal to move AISD's Liberal Arts Academy to LBJ High School almost certainly means resegregation for Johnston High School, its former home.

"...and liberal arts, Johnston High will return to stark segregation -- with only a negligible percentage of white neighborhood..."

Nov. 16, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Capitol Chronicle

Marty Akins for Governor, and few dozen others for statewide office

"...of team unity and to make a statement against segregation, and that the episode shows he's ready to make..."

July 6, 2001 News Column by Michael King

Page Two

To what citywide scandal has our monopoly daily directed its powerful attention? It's a local scourge, a plague, a deep-rooted city problem: the South by Southwest Conference and Festivals. (Okay, well, we don't get it either.)

"...certain areas of filmmaking was as deliberate as the segregation of our own fair town. At one point, there..."

May 11, 2001 Column by Louis Black

Hi-De-Ho and The Duke Is Tops

Available on video as a double bill, these two all-black features -- one from 1938, the other from 1947 -- make a brilliant pairing.

"...independent cinema that grew out of economic and social segregation rather than privileged disenfranchisement. The driving force is to..."

April 27, 2001 Screens Review by Louis Black

A Tinker's Damn

"...a Mockingbird (the inevitable touchstone for this book), racial segregation is the bitter reality playing itself out in the..."

March 2, 2001 Books Review by Mike Shea

Jailbird

The Prison Diaries of the Fabulous Thunderbirds' Preston Hubbard

"...lay it down, you get locked up in Administrative Segregation, or Ad Seg, losing all privileges. Work time and..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Music Feature by Preston Hubbard

The Man Who Knew Too Much

Although some critics have assumed, from Jacques Barzun's criticisms of modern culture, that he is a conservative ideologue, in reality he has always followed his own, pragmatic vision of things.

"...under modern ideas of participation in life, and not segregation to the back bedroom...."

Oct. 13, 2000 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Shades of Gray

In Texas Prisons, It's Hard to Tell Who Your Enemies Are

"...to his behavior. "In a high-security area [like administrative segregation, where a disproportionate number of incidents occur], there are..."

April 28, 2000 News Feature by Nate Blakeslee

A Twist at the End Reviewed

"...a parallelogram, too). He readily explores gender bias and segregation in their historical context -- adding surprising depth and..."

April 7, 2000 Books Feature by Mike Shea

Reflections

SXSW 2000 Film Festival and Conference

"...Wallace. Quite possibly the country's most vocal advocate of segregation and other racist policies, Wallace's legend towers in infamy...."

March 17, 2000 Screens Feature by Peter Debruge

The Road to Damascus

The story behind Paul Stekler and Daniel McCabe's documentary George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire

"...just lost the race to John Patterson, an inveterate segregationist. It was the last time Wallace, who was the..."

March 10, 2000 Features Feature by Clay Smith

Letters at 3AM

It's time for the American South to reject its "rebel" hypocrisy of states rights and atone for the sins of the slave economy of the Confederacy.

"...once again bleated about states rights in defense of segregation...."

Feb. 4, 2000 Column by Michael Ventura

Don't Believe the Hype

Local Digiterati on the Good, the Bad, and the Internet in Between

"...creating what may arguably be the strongest force for segregation that we've seen in the last half century. I..."

Jan. 28, 2000 Screens Feature by Jon Lebkowsky

Waters' Edge

"...thing about a gay film festival. I'm not for segregation. I'm not for all-gay bars or all-straight bars. To..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

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