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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The Radical Inclusiveness of Black Lives Matter
May 20, 2015Activist Linda Sarsour on the Arab American struggle against police brutality.
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We Can't Talk About Housing Policy Without Talking About Racism
May 19, 2015What a serious desegregation policy might look like.
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Little Magazine, Big Ideas: The American Prospect at 25
May 12, 2015Reflecting on a quarter century of politics and change.
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Women as the Loyal Opposition
May 12, 2015When the outsider battles her way in, a corrective voice is heard.
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The Civil Rights Movement and the Politics of Memory
May 12, 2015As opportunists try to hijack the movement's legacy, let's remember what actually occurred.
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Mother's Day, For Real
May 10, 2015In the real America, the lives of women—especially black and brown women—are no bed of roses.
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If America Really Cared About Mothers, Reproductive Health Care Would Be Available to All
May 10, 2015Rates of maternal death are greater in the U.S. than in 40 other countries. Yet we pin the perceived moral failings of Asian nations on pregnant immigrant women from India and China.
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Ever the Protectors, Moms Seeking Asylum Need Protection, Too
May 10, 2015Obama failed to specify that his enthusiasm for mothers is strictly limited to American moms.
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For Mothers Across America, a Somber Day of Remembrance
May 10, 2015It seems wrong to celebrate when so many women are in pain over the loss of their children to oppression and violence.
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Why There Are No Children Here: A Mother's Day Lament
May 08, 2015I let my well-founded fears of medical abandonment and loss of free agency keep me from being a mother. After all, I'm a black woman. That's too often how it goes for us.
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A New Approach to Policing Focuses on Strengthening Communities
May 06, 2015Without progressive solutions to the tension between law enforcement and people of color, every city is one incident away from being the next Baltimore.
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The West's Regard for Charlie Hedbo Victims Not Extended to African Targets of Extremist Violence
May 04, 2015Massacres in Nigeria and Garissa, Kenya, did not draw nearly as much worldwide attention or grief as Charlie Hebdo. What does that say about how we value African lives?
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Dispatch From Baltimore: A Photo Essay
Apr 30, 2015Images from the unrest in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray
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How Government Policies Cemented the Racism that Reigns in Baltimore
Apr 29, 2015A century of federal, state, and local policies have quarantined Charm City’s black population in isolated slums.
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In Baltimore, Police Thuggery Is the Real Violence Problem
Apr 28, 2015An unarmed black person is six times more likely to be killed by police than is a white person who carries a weapon.
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