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Rinku Sen
Rinku Sen is the president and executive director of the Applied Research Center and the publisher of ColorLines magazine. She is the author of Stir it Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy and The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization.
Sen is the author of Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy, and co-author, with Fekkak Mamdouh, of The Accidental American: Immigration and Citizenship in the Age of Globalization (Berrett-Koehler).
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Why Americans Must Pay Attention to Copenhagen
Negotiations have resumed in Copenhagen after a walkout by the African delegation on Monday. African governments were concerned more »
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Young, Green, and Broke
Last week, the Labor Department reported that youth unemployment stands at 18.2 percent, nearly twice the national average of 9.8 more »
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What the NAACP Means to Me
As a brown-skinned immigrant who has spent 25 years working for racial justice, I owe a good deal of more »
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Rinku Sen
"The mainstream media...has no idea how racism works structurally," says Rinku Sen, publisher of ColorLines magazine and co-author of the new book The Accidental American. more »
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White Progressives Don’t Get It
Rinku Sen argues that progressives who write policy without racial justice goals fail because they can risk deepening inequalities while only superficially being universal. more »
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