Race & Ethnicity
Editors' Picks
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Black America's Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
Nov 10, 2014Hope and pessimism have defined two traditions of American thinking about race. Fully acknowledging recent setbacks, the author makes the case for the tradition of hope.
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The Making of Ferguson: How Decades of Hostile Policy Created a Powder Keg
Oct 13, 2014Long before the shooting of Michael Brown, official racial-isolation policies primed Ferguson for this summer’s events.
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Last Day of a Young Black Man
Jul 23, 2013Fruitvale Station's intimate portrait of Oscar Grant promises better days ahead for black film.
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Trayvon Martin, Blackness, and America's Fear of Crime
Jul 16, 2013Further thoughts on pathology and "black on black" crime.
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Race or Class? The Future of Affirmative Action on the College Campus
Jun 22, 2014Focusing college-student recruitment on poor neighborhoods can overlook middle-class African Americans entitled to affirmative action.
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How the American South Drives the Low-Wage Economy
Jul 06, 2015Just as in the 1850s (with the Dred Scott decision and the Fugitive Slave Act), the Southern labor system (with low pay and no unions) is wending its way north.
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Immigration and America's Urban Revival
Jul 07, 2015The evidence favors a hypothesis many Americans reject: Immigration has helped reduce crime and revitalize city economies.
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Urban Policing, Without Brutality
Jul 20, 2015Cincinnati has emerged as a role model of policing reform—but even the best-in-show has a long way to go.
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Toppled! Ridding Durham of Its Racist Monument
Aug 17, 2017The liberal city wanted it down; the GOP state legislature forbade that; activists found a way to end that impasse.
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A Post-Charlottesville To-Do List for Anti-Trumpers
Aug 17, 2017Some ways to counter the neo-fascists and their president
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White Supremacists Stand by Trump, and He Returns the Favor
Aug 16, 2017At a press conference, the president blamed the melee in Charlottesville on the left as much as the right, echoing far-right talking points.
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The 'Many Sides' of Trump's Moral Rot
Aug 14, 2017He can't even bring himself to pretend to oppose white supremacists and neo-Nazis—and every Republican who supported him is culpable.
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Trump’s Racist Silence
Aug 13, 2017By his refusal to condemn white nationalism after the Charlottesville murder, Trump acknowledges that virulent racism is the linchpin of his presidency.
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Under Trump, Liberals Rediscover School Segregation
Aug 11, 2017The president’s racism has opened the door for a franker discussion of school choice.
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Ignoring Police Violence
Aug 07, 2017Baltimore officials accepted a voluntary settlement to reduce police abuses. Jeff Sessions wants to kill it.
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The Justice Department Works for You, and Other Myths
Jul 28, 2017At the annual NAACP convention, the contrast between the messaging from Rod Rosenstein, Jeff Sessions’s number two, and Eric Holder, Barack Obama’s first attorney general, was stark.
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State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice
Jul 24, 2017Jim Crow was the descendant of Southern slavery. More shocking is the legacy of government-enforced racism in the North.
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Does the Fed Think Black Lives Matter?
Jul 11, 2017Putting the brakes on the economy would disproportionately damage black America.
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It Was Prejudice. It Was Economics. It Was Both.
Jul 07, 2017New surveys show not all Trump voters had the same motivations.
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Black, American, and Armed
Jul 06, 2017With concerns about police violence and white supremacist groups mounting, some black gun owners have decided to take charge of their own safety.
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‘Parents Involved,’ A Decade Later
Jun 28, 2017Contrary to reports, the fight for school integration was not derailed.
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Why the White Worker Theme Is Harmful
Jun 21, 2017It’s a mistake to racialize an economy that harms the entire working class.
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Democrats Need to Be the Party of and for Working People—of All Races
Jun 01, 2017And they can’t retake Congress unless they win over more white workers.
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