Race
Response to Race and the Poetic Avant-Garde
The aestheticization of the term avant-garde is a refusal to think what the alienation of human being in the modern era was made of.
Still Missing: Etan Patz—and Others
During the exhaustive search for Etan, black children were disappearing in Atlanta.
Martin Luther King on Non-Violence and Disarmament
Whether addressing church parishioners or college students, King often demanded an end to the nuclear arms race.
Discrimination and Hiring
From job-seeking to medical treatment, many decision-makers decide with a racial tilt (consciously or not).
Should Racism be Considered Mental Illness?
If what we today consider racism was a norm in America’s recent past and is the norm in many places around the world, how can it also be a psychopathology, an abnormal psychological condition?
The Neighborhood Effect
A bad environment can worsen the life chances not only of a child, but that of the child’s child.
Six Shots in Michael Brown
The judicial process cannot account for what matters most: the policies and biases that enable white men to claim justification in the murder of black men.
Democracy in South Africa
After twenty years of electoral dominance by the African National Congress, are South African politics finally becoming competitive?
Which Radical Ideas Come True?
Two radical notions in the early 1970s, having a black president and permitting homosexual marriage, have pretty much come to pass.
Gangsta Folk
If gangsta rap lyrics are evidence of criminality, what are we to make of gruesome murders depicted in many folk and country songs?
Tiger Couple Gets It Wrong on Immigrant Success
High-earning immigrants often come from highly educated or affluent families to begin with.
Lost Radicals
The internationalism of black radicals was an alternative to a universalism that wasn’t universal.
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