The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture By Bakari Kitwana. Basic Books, 230 pages, $24.00 At a meeting I attended several years ago, a man who did not look all that much younger than me turned in my direction and announced that my generation had made a mess out of […]
Dori Maynard
Dori J. Maynard, a former Detroit Free Press reporter, is president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, where she works on the Fault Lines, a project that examines the ways race, class, gender, generation, and geography shape our world view.
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A Guide for the Perplexed
S everal years ago, I was the lone African American in a small group of people spending an academic year together. It had all the makings of a great experience, except for one persistent problem: A few in the group were determined to spend at least a portion of their time exploring race relations. Unfortunately, […]
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Scolding the Race
John H. McWhorter has seen black America, and it is not pretty. It is a place populated by a people so seeped in pathology that a young girl is urged to smack a toddler who has the temerity to know how to spell the word “concrete.” It is a place where nearly all African Americans, […]