Category: Politics/Public Policy

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’ Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-11-27 John Blake They showed people a photograph of two white men fighting, one unarmed and another holding a knife. Then they showed another photograph, this one of a white man with a knife fighting an unarmed African-American man. When they asked people to identify…

  • Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid The Atlantic 2014-11-26 Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent Violence works. Nonviolence does too. In a recent dispatch from Ferguson, Missouri, Jelani Cobb noted that President Obama’s responses to “unpunished racial injustices” constitute “a genre unto themselves.” Monday night, when Barack Obama stood before the nation to interpret…

  • Fake Diversity and Racial Capitalism Medium 2014-11-23 Nancy Leong, Professor of Law Sturm College of Law University of Denver For decades now, it’s been fashionable for institutions of all kinds to showcase their racially diverse constituencies. This is true even when the institution in question has been sued for discrimination on the basis of race,…

  • Obama failed Ferguson. The prosecutor is pathetic. Between the split-screen, the protesters get it The Guardian London, United Kingdom 2014-11-25 Steven W. Thrasher, Columnist for Guardian US Politicians have found themselves on the wrong side of the gap between the fantasy of what the law does and the reality that people live There we had…

  • In Response to #Ferguson One Drop of Love 2014-11-25 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni I spent yesterday, like so many of my friends and family, wavering between deep sadness and deep anger. I understand that, because I was a witness to a family member being brutalized by a police officer, I have a different perspective than those…

  • At its optimistic best, America has embraced its identity as the world’s melting pot. Today it is on the cusp of becoming a country with no racial majority, and new minorities are poised to exert a profound impact on U.S. society, economy, and politics.

  • A Post-Genomic Surprise: the molecular reinscription of race in science, law and medicine The London School of Economics and Political Science Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building London, United Kingdom 2014-11-06 Speaker: Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy University of California, Berkeley Chair: Nigel Dodd, Professor of Sociology…

  • There Is No Such Thing as Race Newsweek 2014-11-08 Robert Wald Sussman, Professor of Physical Anthropology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri In 1950, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) issued a statement asserting that all humans belong to the same species and that “race” is not a biological reality but a myth.…

  • Barack Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America Routledge 2013-10-04 240 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-81394-5 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81393-8 eBook ISBN: 978-0-203-06779-6 Edited by: Mark Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer of History and American Studies Canterbury Christ Church University Kevern Verney, Professor of American History Edge Hill University Inderjeet Parmar, Professor of Government University of Manchester The…

  • Episode Six: A More Perfect Union The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) Public Broadcasting Service Tuesdays, 2013-10-22 through 2013-11-26, 20:00-21:00 ET From Black Power to Black President By 1968, the Civil Rights movement had achieved stunning victories, in the courts and in the Congress. But would African Americans finally…