“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...
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“Everyone should have access to good housing and good jobs. That’s the point.”
…something is seriously off when privileged whites dismiss the economic pain of less privileged...
“Epistemological insiderism not only stakes out certain domains as belonging to persons with certain identities; it also risks boxing persons with those identities into specific domains”
…the Tuvel affair raises issues that go beyond the controversial notion of transracialism. First,...
“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...
“…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...
“Trump’s core voters are revealed, by poll after poll, to be members of the white working class”
Americans like Mark Frisbie have no foundation to stand on; they’re unorganized, unheard, unspoken...
“Racism ceased to be a matter of systems and policy and became a referendum on the rot of the individual soul”
Racism ceased to be a matter of systems and policy and became a referendum...