NPR: Daydreaming

August 6, 2008

Black on Brown

--Gary Dauphin

Today's segment on California moving forward with a 2005 consent decree calling for prisons to be desegregated, touches distantly on the ever-sticky issue of black and brown relations in the country's biggest state. Away from the balkanized warfare in the state's cell blocks, where blacks, whites, Asians and Latinos from northern and southern Cali fight over precious square feet of concrete (and associated drug profits), shifting demographics have transformed the political relationship between so-called minority groups. Whether we're talking about the myth of Obama's "Latino Problem," or fears of a black v. brown homicide spike in LA over the last few years, the mental image of ethnic conflict now revolves around brown-on-black conflict, rather than the traditional specter of white-on-brown/black racism.

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