Great to know that the hilarity of blackface remains popular at some of our nation's finer sororities and fraternities! And I thought we lived in a post-racial society! In all seriousness, this brings up a couple of more substantial points. First, it's not like kids...
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This issue came up in the comments to a post from earlier in the week. Before you answer that question with the obvious no, note that this was a real.
Professors and students at Southwestern University in Texas, where I taught for 3 years, have developed an interesting study that was recently presented at the American Sociological Association and covered.
Rule #1 of sports broadcasting--always, always, always compare a player to someone of the same racial background. At Baseball Prospectus (not sure how much of this you can see without a subscription), Frankie Piliere pokes at what is one of the most annoying parts of...
I'm working on a chapter for an edited volume on the Tea Party. My essay seeks to place the Tea Party within the context of American conservatism over the past.
Yglesias notes that, for the first time in nearly a half century, an Ohio governor appointed an all-white cabinet. It should be unnecessary to point out that, in 2011, a.
Considering that two Jews from the Bronx, Bill Finger and Robert Kahn (Bob Kane) created Batman two Jews in Cleveland, Jerome Siegel and Joseph Shuster, created Superman a Jew from Washington Heights, Mortimer Weisinger, created Green Arrow and co-created Aquaman another Jew from Washington Heights,...