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12
Families Outspend Labor
(news clipping ca. 1956)
Political Contributions
A mere dozen families spent $212,464 more in
the 1956 political campaign than did 15 millions trade
unionists, according to the U.S. Senate Elections Sub-Committee.
The 12, whose donations total $1, 153, 735, were the DuPoints
($248,423), Pews ($216,000), Rockefellers ($152,604), Whitneys
$121,450), mellons ($100,150), Vanderbilts ($62,400), Olins
($53,550) Reynoldses ($49,509), Lehmans ($39,500), Harrimans
($38,850) Fords ($36,899) and Fields (33,500). That's an average
of $96,144.42. (The DuPoints, Rockefellers, Whitneys, and
Mellons averaged $167,945.40 per family.)
As a matter of fact, more than 2,600 persons
made contributions of $500 or more, totaling $8 million for the
Republican and $2.8 million for the Democrats. (In only seven
states were more big gifts given to Democratic candidates than
Republican.)
Some 400 individuals kicked in $5,000 or
more. On the other hand, 18 officials of trade unions personally
contributed $500 or more out of their own pockets for a total of
$19,000--or about 8 percent of the gifts from just one family,
the DuPonts. One DuPont, Irene DuPont of Wilmington, Delaware,
tossed $26,295 into the Republican Party.
The biggest individual contributor was
Lansdell Christie of New York City, who contributed $73,164 to
the Democratic Party. Second highest was Mrs. Christie Payson,
who gave the Republicans $65,050. Her brother, John Hay Whitney,
was appointed Ambassador to great Britain by President
Eisenhower. (Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, former Ambassador to Italy,
and her husband, Publisher Henry Luce of Time and Life
magazines, donated $30,875 to the GOP.)* * *
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great
Migration
By Isabel Wilkerson
Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, a
sharecropper's wife, left Mississippi
for Milwaukee in 1937, after her cousin
was falsely accused of stealing a white
man's turkeys and was almost beaten to
death. In 1945, George Swanson Starling,
a citrus picker, fled Florida for Harlem
after learning of the grove owners'
plans to give him a "necktie party" (a
lynching). Robert Joseph Pershing Foster
made his trek from Louisiana to
California in 1953, embittered by "the
absurdity that he was doing surgery for
the United States Army and couldn't
operate in his own home town." Anchored
to these three stories is Pulitzer
Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson's
magnificent, extensively researched
study of the "great migration," the
exodus of six million black Southerners
out of the terror of Jim Crow to an
"uncertain existence" in the North and
Midwest. Wilkerson deftly incorporates
sociological and historical studies into
the novelistic narratives of Gladney,
Starling, and Pershing settling in new
lands, building anew, and often finding
that they have not left racism behind.
The drama, poignancy, and romance of a
classic immigrant saga pervade this
book, hold the reader in its grasp, and
resonate long after the reading is done.
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Ancient African Nations
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