Race

Still Blaming the Victim

In Young, Gifted, and Black, Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III do not address the deep structural inequalities that are the chief causes of the achievement gap.

  • Charles R. Lawrence, III

Deadly Symbiosis

Rethinking race and imprisonment in twenty-first-century America.

  • Loïc Wacquant

Beyond the Civil Rights Industry

Black problems are real, and often getting worse. We need new leadership community-based leadership in the black community.

  • Eva T. Thorne
  • Eugene F. Rivers III
with responses from
  • Lani Guinier
  • Cathy J. Cohen
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Ronald J. Sider
  • Alan Wolfe
  • Julianne Malveaux
  • Ellen Willis
  • Peter Dreier
  • Manning Marable

Moving Out of the Ghetto

The state must undertake all action necessary to end the social processes that continue to perpetuate the near-caste structure of American society.

  • Owen Fiss
with responses from
  • Richard Thompson Ford
  • J. Phillip Thompson
  • Robert Coles
  • Jennifer Hochschild
  • Gary Orfield
  • James E. Rosenbaum
  • Alexander Polikoff

The Campaign to Save Mumia Abu-Jamal

The former members of the Black Panthers is on death row. 

  • Loren Goldner

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals

A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III
  • Margaret A. Burnham
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • bell hooks
  • Glenn C. Loury
  • Cornel West
  • Anthony Appiah

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On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack

A response to Noam Chomsky.

  • Eugene F. Rivers III

Second Proms and Second Primaries

The Limits of Majority Rule

  • Lani Guinier

The Intelligent Forty-year-old’s Guide to Rap

Rap poetry is full of cutting-edge linguistic innovations.

  • Mark Zanger

Beyond Racism and Misogyny

Black feminism and the 2 Live Crew.

  • Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

A Matter of State

On the most important treason trial in South Africa in three decades.

  • Rose Moss

Homelands

Behind South Africa’s battle lines.

  • Adam Hochschild

Ethnicity and Education

The politics of black education.

  • Tony Hill
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