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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Miscarriage of Justice: Asian-American Women Targeted -- and All Women Threatened -- by Feticide Laws Like Indiana's
Apr 03, 2015Purvi Patel's pregnancy ended with a medical emergency—and a 20-year prison sentence.
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This Is No Time for Liberals to Give Up on Israel
Apr 03, 2015Because of Netanyahu's bellicosity—and Republican support for it—it's now possible in Washington to argue about Israel. With so much at stake, liberals must.
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The Crisis of Black Unemployment: Still Higher Than Pre-Recession Levels
Apr 02, 2015Despite increasing hires of black workers, the employment gap between African Americans and whites remains high.
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How a Campus Radical Became the First Woman to Run White House Photography Operation
Mar 30, 2015Sharon Farmer says she "never kissed enough butt" to land a job on staff at a national newspaper. Then the White House hired her for the job of a lifetime.
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Those Rootin' Tootin' Shootin' GOP Presidential Candidates
Mar 30, 2015Most of the Republicans running for president are gun-owners. It isn't going to help them.
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Legions of Women Workers in U.S. Still Lack Minimum Wage and Labor Protections
Mar 27, 2015The legacy of slavery and prescribed gender roles continues to rob millions of their fair share.
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Students Declare Nationwide Boycott of Wendy's Over Farmworker Concerns
Mar 25, 2015Taco Bell, Burger King, McDonalds, and Walmart are already party to the worker-protection contract the targeted fast-food chain refuses to sign.
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3 Trends Driving Liberal American Jews Away From Israel
Mar 23, 2015Netanyahu's re-election—and the way in which he won it—is but one touchstone of a crisis of the spirit.
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America's Willful Ignorance of Our History of Lynching Feeds Racial Hatred
Mar 18, 2015It's easy to focus on individual racist acts and condemn the actors. But that doesn't get us closer to solving the problem of racism.
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The Many Ways the University of Oklahoma Fraternity Scandal Reveals America's Racism Denial
Mar 17, 2015Bill Kristol blames rap music. And the fraternity's lawyer says the racist chanters were "tarred and feathered." (Yes, he did.)
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Why the Real Story of the Irish Exodus to America Isn't Taught in Schools
Mar 17, 2015The famine that brought vast numbers of Irish to the U.S. wasn't caused by nature; it was caused by ruthless capitalists.
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The Dance of Liberals and Radicals
Mar 17, 2015As LBJ and MLK needed each other, so does today's left-of-center establishment need the leftist vanguard—and vice-versa.
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Black Kids Accused of Causing Their Own Deaths, From Tamir Rice to Emmett Till
Mar 12, 2015As in the infamous 1955 murder of a black teen, society sought to taint the character of a 12-year-old black boy recently killed by police with the sins of his father.
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Selma March Commemorated By Politicians Who Support Gutting of Voting Rights
Mar 06, 2015The 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday—the catalyst for passage of the Voting Rights Act—is being remembered at a moment when voting rights in the South are at their most precarious in half a century.
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CPAC Labor Panel Does GOP No Favors in Outreach to Latinos, Women
Mar 02, 2015Organizing among fast-food workers and home health-care aides has clearly gotten under the skin of anti-labor leaders—even as they boast of another anti-union triumph in Wisconsin.
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