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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A Government Of, By, and For the Deplorables
Nov 18, 2016A frightening array of Islamophobes, xenophobes, homophobes, racists, and misogynists is assembling around President-elect Trump, normalizing the language and actions of hatred.
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Poverty’s Punishment: America’s Oppressive Bail Regime
Nov 18, 2016Bail systems across the country continue to function as another way the criminal justice system exacerbates poverty and racial inequality.
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Report from the Field: The Rust Belt’s Blues Turn It Red
Nov 16, 2016In one Ohio Rust Belt town, energy flagged among Hillary Clinton volunteers in the weeks leading up to Election Day, offering a glimpse into the enthusiasm gap that did her in.
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Showdown at Standing Stone Camp
Nov 16, 2016The Dakota Access Pipeline battle is just the tip of the iceberg. Across North America, a reinvigorated Native sovereignty movement is flexing its muscles—and racking up victories.
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‘Loving’ Reminds Us of an Earlier Struggle for Marriage Equality
Nov 11, 2016A new movie about the landmark Supreme Court ruling that legalized interracial marriage resonates today in the wake of Obergefell v. Hodges.
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Trump’s Own Blacks
Nov 11, 2016Ben Carson as Secretary of Education? Farce becomes tragedy.
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Does Clinton’s Campaign Lack the Human Touch in Black Communities?
Nov 04, 2016The absence of an early, focused voter mobilization campaign may be taking a toll.
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Racism Alone Doesn’t Explain Trump’s Support, Which Also Reflects Economic Anxiety
Nov 04, 2016It’s become popular these days to blame Trump’s rise on bigotry and racial animus alone, but that diagnosis misses the important role played by economic anxiety.
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Race and the Tragedy of Quota-Based Policing
Nov 03, 2016Arrest targets compound the risk of racially biased stop-and-frisk.
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How to Get White Workers to Vote for Clinton
Oct 31, 2016Working America is the left’s premier vehicle for building support among the non-union white working class—but in the year of Trump, it may have the hardest job in the country.
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Democrats Get Out the Vote. Republicans Suppress It.
Oct 28, 2016Diverse approaches to a changing America
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Latino Immigrants Are Changing the Politics of … Nebraska!
Oct 21, 2016Organizing in Omaha and small towns with meatpacking plants is altering politics in this reddest of states.
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Will Black Lives Matter to the Supreme Court?
Oct 12, 2016Three cases provide cues on how the Court may handle race and criminal justice questions that are roiling the country.
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Recreational Marijuana Ballot Measures Usher In Next Phase in Drug War
Oct 07, 2016With five states poised to vote on legalizing pot, millennials and minority groups are key voting blocs.
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Trump’s Voter Fraud Fantasy
Oct 06, 2016Donald Trump’s exhortations to supporters to monitor polling places in “certain areas” recycles voter fraud myths that increasingly are being rejected by scholars and federal courts.
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