RACED

Observations on African Americans and other people of color and the significance of "race" in a (purportedly) colorblind world

Sunday, November 6, 2011

Honoring The First Black Marines

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Click here .

CT Scans And Minority Children

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From OrthoSuperSite : "African-American and Hispanic children are less likely than Caucasian children to receive a cranial CT scan in a...

The Political Outlooks Of Black And White Voters

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Consider this .

"Moving Beyond Civil Rights"

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Check out Stanford law professor Richard Thompson Ford's recent NYT op-ed and his argument that "[i]f civil rights ideals are to b...

"Clarence Thomas: Black Nationalist?"

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Juan Williams takes up the question .
Friday, September 30, 2011

"Black Nationalism For White People"

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Check out Ta-Nehisi Coates' piece in the Atlantic.

"Anita Hill's Long Memory"

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Click here for Andrew Goldman's Q&A with Anita Hill.

More Than Half

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More than half (52.2%) of black children in Nebraska live in poverty. The numbers for other groups living in that state: 49.7% of Native A...

More Pat Buchanan

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From the mouth of Pat Buchanan (still a commentator for MSNBC!): "I think what he is saying is they bought a lot of liberal propaganda...

Racial Bias In Lead Study

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From the NYT : A class action lawsuit filed against the Kennedy Krieger Institute (affilaited iwth Johns Hopkins University) alleges that ov...
Friday, September 16, 2011

The Barbara Jordan Stamp

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Dahlia Lithwick's "A Killer Issue"

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Dahlia Lithwick's Slate article argues that the "same Republicans who are dubious of government's ability to do anything right...

"The GOP War on Voting"

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Check out Ari Berman's article in the Rolling Stone . From the article: "Just as Dixiecrats once used poll taxes and literacy test...

David Remnick On The Making And Remaking Of Malcolm X

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In The New Yorker .

Driving While Dreadlocked

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John McWhorter's New Republic piece addresses the question why the police are so bad at racial profiling.

Recommended

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David R. Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve 2011).

Recommended

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Randall Kennedy, The Persistance of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon 2011). Kennedy recently discussed his...
Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Uh Oh

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The San Francisco Chronicle reports that, according to the National Enquirer, Joe McGinnis' new book on Sarah Palin "alleges that,...

"Is The South Still Prejudiced?"

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James Swift considers this question.

1 In 4

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That's the number of African-American families suffering from hunger.
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