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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‘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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A Tale of Two Populisms
Jun 01, 2017The elite the white working class loathes is politicians.
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The Democrats’ ‘Working-Class Problem’
Jun 01, 2017It’s not only with whites. It reaches well into the party’s base.
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Winning (Some) Middle-of-the-Road Working-Class Whites
Jun 01, 2017White working-class voters differ not just in “what they think” but in “how they think.” Understanding this difference is the key to creating a successful Democratic strategy for regaining their support.
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The Racism Obstacle
Jun 01, 2017There are limits to how effectively a progressive populist economics can woo working-class whites.
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Black Is Beautiful, But Hair Is Still Political
May 26, 2017How a suburban Boston charter school’s dress code underscores whites’ obsession with African American hair
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Massachusetts Charter School Backs Off Exclusionary Hair Policies -- For Now
May 25, 2017Public outrage plus scrutiny from civil rights groups and the state attorney general draws attention to penalties imposed on black students.
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Q&A: Can Black America Stay Strong Under Trump?
May 12, 2017National Urban League President Marc Morial sees African American social and economic progress holding steady. But he warns that the Trump threat is real and activists must stay focused if they want to see better political results.
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How Jeff Sessions Is Laying the Groundwork for Authoritarian Action
Apr 12, 2017The attorney general is courting law enforcement by reducing accountability and renewing a war on people of color.
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Trump & Friends’ War on African American Women
Apr 05, 2017A pattern is emerging in the administration’s scandal-defense playbook: Go after black women.
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Fight for 15 and Black Lives Matter Join Forces on Anniversary of MLK's Death
Apr 04, 2017Forty-nine years after King was assassinated, the left’s organizing vanguards seek to continue his work.
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Trump’s Crash Course in the African American Experience
Mar 31, 2017The Congressional Black Caucus got back to basics when they met with the president. But what they may get out of the encounter remains murky.
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Trump’s Race-Baiting Bromance with Andrew Jackson
Mar 15, 2017The president lays a wreath at the grave of a predecessor who sought to make a white nation.
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