Diversity and Division

Next Month, Part II

The Greatest Hope: Our schools can hold the key to improving race relations. The generation of young people in classrooms today is more likely to get along with one another, more likely to be “color-blind” and, perhaps, less likely to face discrimination in adulthood. From the forced integration of the past to continuing efforts at melding color and cultures in one system, educators, students and parents struggle to balance academics and human relations. In March, a reporting team led by Margie Craig Farnsworth, Neil Kendricks and Pulitzer Prize–winner Jonathan Freedman looks at race and ethnic relations in San Diego’s schools.

April, Part III

It’s About the Money: The chance to make a living as they choose—with equal opportunity—is foremost in the minds of people of color. Indeed, some regard the future as more a matter of economics than race. Yet they continue to find roadblocks to jobs, to home ownership, to entrepreneurial opportunities—despite decades of enabling legislation and political promises. San Diego’s economy grows increasingly dependent on a population that grows ever more diverse. Will the region’s business and industry open its doors to all San Diegans? Or will it close the door on its own future?

Lynne Carrier is an award-winning journalist with three decades of experience in writing for magazines and newspapers. From 1977 to 1992, she wrote for the San Diego Tribune, covering beats from San Diego City Hall to Mexico and border news. She was part of the Tribune team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for coverage of the crash of a PSA jetliner. As a Tribune editorial writer, she was part of a three-person team nominated for a Pulitzer in 1984. She is now a freelance writer living in Coronado. Carrier’s articles have appeared in publications across the country, including Forbes, the Washington Post, Newsweek and the Christian Science Monitor.

Fernando Romero
Fernando Romero is a San Diego freelance writer whose work emphasizes border and Latino issues and is published in English and Spanish-language magazines and newspapers. The Mexico-born Romero received his journalism education at San Diego State University before working as a staff writer for the San Diego Tribune, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times and the Riverside Press-Enterprise. His freelance work has been published in the Washington Post, the Dallas Morning News and dozens of other publications on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Manuel Pastor Jr.
Manuel Pastor served as facilitator for three wide-ranging roundtable discussions conducted by San Diego Magazine for this series. He is a professor of Latin American and Latino studies and director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An undergraduate at Santa Cruz between 1973 and 1978, Pastor won his doctorate in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and has received fellowships from the Danforth, Guggenheim and Kellogg Foundations. He is currently at work on a book about race relations in the United States.