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Racism/Razzismo Part III: Lest We Forget: Racism Will Make Victims of Us All

Jerry Krase

This essay is the third, and last, in my series alluding to the similarities between Bensonhurst 1989 and Italy 2008.

Bensonhurst and Italia: Racism and Razzismo (Part I)

Jerry Krase

The 1989 murder of Afro-American Yusuf Hawkins in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn became the icon of Italian American intolerance. Recently there has been a disturbing convergence of real...