Robert L. Allen

Reassessing the Internal (Neo) Colonialism Theory

At the beginning of 1965, Malcolm was building the Organization of Afro-American Unity and establishing international contacts, especially in Africa and the Middle East. He had adopted a socialist economic perspective and he was moving toward a politics of Pan-African internationalism (Sales, 84-90). The year 1965 would prove to be significant for many reasons. The passage of the Voting Rights Act coming a year after the historic Civil Rights Act drove another nail into the coffin of Jim Crow. For white liberals

Past Due: The African American Quest for Reparations

Diaspora has emerged as an important issue. A growing number of activists, scholars and political leaders, such as British M.P. Bernie Grant and U.S. Congressman John Conyers, have taken up the call for reparations. Organizations have been formed to press the issue, and a foundation for engagement with governments, particularly in Britain and (perhaps) the United States, is being laid. The issue of reparations is truly global and it has many dimensions moral, cultural, social, psychological, political and economic. In this article, I will focus chiefly on reparations as a matter of social justice for African Americans, but I am cognizant of the fact that the struggle for reparations is a global issue requiring a unified, international mobilization.

The Bakke Case and Affirmative Action.

partments in colleges have been squeezed out of existence by budget cuts, and countless minority instructors in other departments find themselves facing the terminal year. Since 1974 the proportion of black students enrolled in colleges and professional schools has declined as special admissions programs have been eliminated and financial aid has dried up. Even more ominously, layoffs and lawsuits are undermining the principle of affirmative action in education and em-