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  • An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage

    An Unsung Hero in the Story of Interracial Marriage The New Yorker 2016-11-17 David Muto, Copy Editor/Senior Web Producer Bill and Carol Muto on their wedding day, eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court, in Loving v. Virginia, struck down interracial-marriage bans. COURTESY BILL AND CAROL MUTO At my parents’ wedding, in Blacksburg, Virginia, my…

  • The New American Face

    The New American Face The Atlantic 2016-11-21 James Hamblin, Senior Editor The least and most attractive male faces, based on statistical models. Leaders are stoking human tendencies toward tribalism—but this instinct can be overcome more easily than once thought. Since the election of Donald Trump, President Barack Obama has shifted into a prophylactic stance. He…

  • Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency

    Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency The New Yorker 2016-11-28 David Remnick, Editor Inside a stunned White House, the President considers his legacy and America’s future. The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been…

  • The Latinos Of Asia

    The Latinos Of Asia Think KERA Dallas, Texas 2016-11-14 Krys Boyd, Host and Managing Editor Filipino Americans are classified by the U.S. Census as Asian. But because of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines, many Filipinos also feel part Latino. This hour, we’ll talk about how skin color, history and other factors contribute to cultural identity…

  • The Myth of a Post-Racial America

    The Myth of a Post-Racial America Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Pamela Newkirk, Professor of Journalism New York University Pamela Newkirk Wonders How Much Further Back We Can Go… For the past eight years, many African-Americans instinctively presumed that the venom spewed at President Obama was on account of his race. More recently, we endured a steady…

  • The End of the Postracial Myth

    The End of the Postracial Myth The New York Times Magazine 2016-11-15 Nikole Hannah-Jones Pundits are quick to say that it couldn’t be about prejudice in states like Iowa, where Obama voters went for Trump. But racial anxiety is always close to the surface — and can easily be stoked. On a cold, clear night…

  • Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President?

    Our Kids, Their Fears, Our President? Literary Hub 2016-11-07 Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau on Raising Children of Color in Trump’s America Writers Mira Jacob and Emily Raboteau conducted this conversation via email during the week before the election, at night after getting their kids to bed. Emily Raboteau: Mira, Lit Hub has invited us…

  • After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

    “After Canaan,” the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or “Canaan”) encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery.

  • Half and Half

    Half and Half Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2007-02-11 Bliss Broyard David Matthews, Ace of Spades, A Memoir (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2007). Twenty minutes into David Matthews’s first day of fourth grade in a new school in a new city, his classmates surround him and demand to know what he…

  • Ace of Spades, A Memoir

    A take-no-prisoners tale of growing up without knowing who you are