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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Q&A: After Philando Castile, a Playbook for Organizers
Jul 14, 2016Community organizer Anthony Newby has been on the front lines of protests against police violence in Minnesota, and is working to help other activists across the country follow suit.
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How We Move Beyond Dallas
Jul 13, 2016Calls for healing and reconciliation in the wake of recent racial violence overlook the substantive, concrete steps that experts say would help forestall the next police tragedy.
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Can Community Organizers Build Progressive Power?
Jul 11, 2016Against a backdrop of racial violence and social turmoil, more than 1,500 community organizers gathered in Pittsburgh to map out a grassroots progressive organizing strategy.
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Caught on Camera: Police Racism
Jul 11, 2016A recent wave of police violence against African Americans isn’t anything new. It’s just been caught on video.
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Arizona's Blue Horizons
Jul 11, 2016With increasing Latino activism, once-Republican Arizona is becoming contested terrain, though registration still lags. Will this be the year?
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Why Britain Is Likely to Remain in the E.U.
Jun 28, 2016“Muddle Through” is Britain’s national credo, and it could well save the day this time.
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Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Sets Precedent for Pending Cases
Jun 27, 2016The decision upholding the University of Texas at Austin's admissions program is a victory for affirmative action supporters.
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Trump and the Racial Politics of the South
Jun 27, 2016The legacy of slavery and segregation creeps northward.
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Report: ‘Racial Rules’ Widen Economic Inequality for African Americans
Jun 22, 2016A new study explores the historical roots of the widening racial inequality gap.
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Don’t Assume Trump’s Bias Is Mere Bluster
Jun 14, 2016How the Republican nominee could bar Muslim immigrants.
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University of Texas Affirmative Action Program in Peril
Jun 08, 2016The Court's decision could impact college admissions programs nationwide.
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Abuses on the Border
May 31, 2016Donald Trump says he plans to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but civil liberties advocates say the border is already over-policed, with reports of abuses and even fatal shootings in Southwestern communities.
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How ‘Roots’ Reverberated in Africa
May 30, 2016Roots revolutionized how Americans viewed and talked about black history. But its influence extended across the Atlantic, especially to West Africa and apartheid South Africa.
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Khalid Latif: A Muslim Imam Speaks Out
May 27, 2016At a time when Muslim Americans are under fire on the campaign trail and around the country, a New York University imam has emerged as a national spokesman for a community he says is caught in an “echo chamber” of attacks and counterattacks.
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How Anti-Muslim Attacks Damage America
May 23, 2016Escalating campaign rhetoric and hate crimes aimed at Muslims threaten our nation’s pluralistic traditions.
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