The lottery is a horrible tax upon the poor. That means it is a tax upon people of color to fund the states. That's a bad thing. The lottery also makes absolutely no sense from a financial perspective. It is a black hole for your...
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I originally missed this Sigal Alon piece in The Nation on how the discourse of diversity helped kill affirmative action. She rightfully sees Bakke as laying the groundwork for the.
Yeselson certainly thinks so, in a very interesting Atlantic essay: But when Obama speaks of what is “not American,” countless citizens wonder: Who is he to judge what is “not.
I really enjoyed this Angelica Jade Bastién essay on the problems with colorblind casting in Hollywood. Using Oscar Isaac as an example, she explores how he has been able to work without his ethnicity defining his roles, but also how he had to not use...
As my wife is a historian of Mexico and thus I've spent a good bit of time in the southern part of the nation, I've become fairly familiar with Afro-Mexicans,.
In the stories we tell about music and the South during the 1960s and 1970s, a common theme is that music was the place where race didn't count, where white.
Regardless of the complex debate over reparations for slavery discussed here, I can't help but say that I don't want a black president issuing a national apology for slavery. It needs to be a white president.
Kali Holloway considers the recent poll showing whites thinking they suffer from racial discrimination and the recent study of growing death rates for middle-aged whites to explore whiteness as a.
Above: Theodore Roosevelt, Virulent Racist The recent debates over which Americans to honor with statues, building names, and other monuments, is welcome. History should be debated. The present is not.
My god.... In a new poll released by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) on Tuesday, a whopping 43 percent of Americans told researchers that discrimination against whites has become as large a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minority groups. And an even...
Angela Pulley Hudson's fascinating and very readable new book details a remarkable story of an ex-slave from Mississippi and a Mormon convert who met during the tumultuous early years of.
....that a ProPublica investigation found massive racial disparities in debt collection lawsuits. That’s not only true in Jennings. The story is the same down the road in Normandy and in.