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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Why the Legacy of Katrina on New Orleans Is Different From Disasters That Befell Other Cities
Aug 29, 2014Nine years after the storm, why is it that divine retribution remains in the discussion when considering Katrina?
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Can Private Capital Save Public Housing? (Tenants Have Their Doubts)
Aug 28, 2014It could be more cost-effective to just appropriate more direct funds to the program and keep it in the public sector, but Congress is not about to do so.
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Expert: U.S. Police Training in Use of Deadly Force Woefully Inadequate
Aug 27, 2014In U.S. police department budgets, most funding goes to salaries and equipment, and virtually nothing to training. It's a deadly formula, says Maria Haberfeld of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
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The Fire This Time: America's Withdrawal From the Fight Against Racism Guarantees More Fergusons
Aug 25, 2014Because of the persistence of racism and a relaxation of the fight against it, we are moving backwards. Ferguson is just the latest illustration.
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I'm Polite, Middle-Class and Harassed By Police. Here's Why.
Aug 19, 2014The targeting of citizens by authorities based on racial stereotypes is a serious issue that needs refocusing—an issue that needs to be looked at starting from the root and not the leaf.
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The Ferguson Police Department's Top 10 Tips For Protester Relations
Aug 19, 2014Follow these simple instructions, and you'll be on your way to a warm and cooperative relationship with the community you're there to serve.
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The Government Program That's Equipping Police Like an Occupying Military Force
Aug 18, 2014A chilling index from the Institute for Southern Studies.
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Court Rules NC Voting Rights Rollback to Stay In Place Until After Midterm Elections
Aug 15, 2014Since taking control of state government in 2011, Republicans rolled back North Carolina's progressive voting laws. A new regime of fewer voting days and voter ID requirements will be in place for November's legislative and congressional elections.
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Could the Ferguson Conflict Produce Actual Reform on The Limits of Policing?
Aug 15, 2014There's an opportunity for change, both in federal policy and how the police everywhere look at their own decisions.
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If You Are Black or Brown in America, Your Parents' Warnings Can't Keep You Safe
Aug 15, 2014Our mothers and fathers tell us how to behave when—not if—we are stopped by police. But sometimes it's no use.
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Listen: Affirmative Action 'Race or Place' Debate on SiriusXM's 'Make It Plain'
Aug 12, 2014The Prospect's ongoing discussion on how to save affirmative action takes to the airwaves with a spirited discussion between Sheryll Cashin and Richard Rothstein.
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Thirsty Detroiters Demand End to Water Shut-Offs
Aug 06, 2014Surrounded by the Great Lakes, home to 20 percent of the world’s fresh water, Detroit faces a crisis that is not only paradoxical; it’s complicated.
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Affirmative Action, Race or Class: An Exchange
Aug 01, 2014Should universities shift their recruitment focus away from race and onto poor neighborhoods?
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Can Liberalism Survive the Obama Presidency? (Yes, It Can.)
Jul 28, 2014If Obama is a transformative figure, it isn’t in the ideological way he seemed after his election.
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Will Economic Populism Win Back the Midwest for Democrats?
Jul 26, 2014The decline of industrial unions and significant demographic changes portend challenging times for the region’s Democrats.
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