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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American Police Must Own Their Racial Injustices
Jul 18, 2018To improve relationships with communities of color, a reconciliation movement has begun in several cities, in which police brush up on their history, admit past mistakes, and listen to frank talk and hard truths.
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Barbarians in Robes
Jun 26, 2018The five Republican justices make law from bigotry.
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How the Surveillance State Destroys the Lives of Poor Whites and People of Color
Jun 22, 2018Why the police should be held accountable for misusing surveillance.
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Trump's Dominance Display: Traumatizing Children
Jun 20, 2018Sure, the tearing of brown toddlers from their brown mothers gives the Trump base warm-and-fuzzies. But it’s also a message to the rest of us.
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Was Albert Einstein a Racist?
Jun 19, 2018The great scientist was a radical egalitarian—but subject nonetheless to some of the biases of his time.
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Fox News Functionally Subsidizing White House Communications
Jun 06, 2018Despite sinking revenues on the network’s top two pro-Trump cable shows, Fox continues to advance pro-Trump propaganda—like that fake-news story about the Eagles.
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Untapping the Potential of Black, Latino, and Asian American Evangelical Voters
Jun 06, 2018Both major parties have largely failed to court this faith community. But Democrats need to step up their outreach or they will miss out on an important group of possible supporters.
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For NFL Players, Civil -- and Visible -- Disobedience Is the Only Option
May 29, 2018Taking a knee is in the best American tradition of protest.
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Look What You Made Them Do
May 13, 2018From to neo-Nazism and white nationalism to Trump's election, conservative writers are blaming—who else?—liberals who call out racism.
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Why the 2020 Census Citizenship Question Matters in the 2018 Elections
May 07, 2018Red states will suffer if that question is asked—but Republican state attorneys general haven’t even murmured a protest.
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Turning the Southwest Blue with 'Brown and Beautiful' Millennials
Apr 30, 2018Want to flip Texas and Arizona? Nearly one million Latino citizens turn 18 every year.
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Colorado, Bilingual Education, and Civil Rights
Apr 26, 2018As one Colorado district cuts back its biliteracy program, questions are raised about possible civil rights violations.
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How the 1968 Columbia Student Uprising Looks Now
Apr 19, 2018The echoes can still be heard today of what happened on the Columbia University campus 50 years ago this month.
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Robert F. Kennedy: Teachings for Today
Apr 13, 2018RFK had an uncanny capacity to reach across racial lines. He learned by listening and empathizing.
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Reviving the Fair Housing Act at 50
Apr 11, 2018New efforts in progressive states focus on affordability—which would also diminish segregation.
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