Race

Trump Voters Are Awakening America from Its Post-Racial Dream

Donald Trump’s backers force the United States to confront its long-submerged id.

  • Simon Waxman

The Invisibility of Black Women

Black women too often go missing—from civil rights history and from our lives.

  • Christopher Lebron

Cuba After the Thaw

Worsening Inequality for Afro-Cubans and Women

  • Michelle Chase

A Street Divided

The Long Life of Segregation

  • Claude S. Fischer

Race and Dignity

Freedom Can’t Be Left to Chance

  • Melvin Rogers

Righteous Indignation in Ferguson

In Ferguson, white violence, exclusively, is justified.

  • Simon Waxman

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Our Own Private Disaster

Terrible Schools Are Great for Business

  • Erik Loomis

Historical Method and the Noble Lie

Mass incarceration is so politicized that we can't talk about its origins.

  • Michael Javen Fortner

Who’s to Blame for Mass Incarceration?

Michael Javen Fortner’s Black Silent Majority makes the controversial case that African Americans backed the Rockefeller Drug Laws.

  • Donna Murch

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

  • Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

I’m Fine How I Am

A response to Randall Kennedy’s defense of respectability politics.

  • Christopher Lebron

Learning from the Watts Rebellion

Half a century on, we need to recommit ourselves to correcting the conditions that undergirded the civil unrest of the 1960s.

  • Sekou Franklin

Sandy Speaks

Sandra Bland’s “crime” was acting as she wanted you, me, and everyone to act: nobly.

  • Debbie Nathan

One Nigeria Under God

Nigeria's recent election encouraged alliances among Muslims and Christians.

  • Laura Premack

The Moynihan Report at Fifty

On the long reach of intellectual racism.

  • Stephen Steinberg

Racism: Dumb and Personal / Smart and Structural

Opponents often associate racism with ignorance. But intelligent people promote oppression through colorblindness.

  • Simon Waxman

American Cynicism

And its cure.

  • Jess Row

Corporate Welfare Is Draining Baltimore

We need to turn to the economic violence that attends police violence.

  • Lester Spence

Family Farms vs. Americanism

Below the surface–and sometimes above it–a lot of today’s debates around immigration reform are about cultural assimilation.

  • Claude S. Fischer

Police Manipulate Freddie Gray Story Through Leak

One of the many disturbing dimensions of Freddie Gray’s death after riding in a Baltimore Police van is how little the public knows about the circumstances.

  • Simon Waxman

“Purity” and the “Avant-Garde”

I am sick of the term “avant-garde.”

  • John Yau

Protesting Too Much

The trouble with Black Power revisionism.

  • Randall L. Kennedy

From Jim-Crow to “Color-Blind” Poetics

Race and the So-Called Avant-Garde

  • Dorothy Wang

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.

  • David Marriott
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