“The guiding principle in Mr. Trump’s government is to turn the politics of white resentment into the policies of white rage…”
If there is one consistent thread through Mr. Trump’s political career, it is his...
Category Archives: Races in America
“White nationalists in the United States perceive the country as having plunged into unending crisis…”
Within social and economic justice movements committed to equality, we have not yet collectively...
“If you are going to mention groups in America, you had better mention all of them”
One of the many lessons of the recent presidential election campaign and its repugnant...
“The charting system was predicated on a segregated market”
Rock and roll is usually explained as rhythm-and-blues music—that is, music performed by black...
“Contrary to our popular assumptions about the intent and effect of both the New Deal and the G.I. Bill, they were not intended to, nor did they, provide all poor Americans with equal economic opportunity”
Up through at least the middle of the twentieth century, the government of the...
“The moral energy surrounding identity has, of course, had many good effects…but the fixation on diversity in our schools and in the press has produced a generation of liberals and progressives narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups, and indifferent to the task of reaching out to Americans in every walk of life”
The moral energy surrounding identity has, of course, had many good effects. Affirmative action...
“…if race becomes an irreducible category in politics, rather than being incorporated into universal claims of justice, it’s a weapon that can be picked up and used by anyone”
I recently spoke with the social scientist Glenn Loury, who teaches at Brown University....
“Those who play the identity game should be prepared to lose it”
The media’s newfound, almost anthropological, interest in the angry white male reveals as much...
“The ‘authenticity’ that Trump’s followers so admire is factually wrong and morally repulsive”
If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual...
“For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught”
For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught. If you focus insistently...