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  • Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American racism…

    The problem here isn’t that we think Richard Cohen gags at the sight of an interracial couple and their children. The problem is that Richard Cohen thinks being repulsed isn’t actually racist, but “conventional” or “culturally conservative.” Obstructing the right of black humans and white humans to form families is a central feature of American…

  • Biracial Cool: Bill de Blasio’s Fresh Electoral Asset

    Biracial Cool: Bill de Blasio’s Fresh Electoral Asset The Atlantic 2013-11-06 Kevin Noble Maillard, Professor of Law Syracuse University The New York mayor-elect’s family—both fascinatingly ordinary and shockingly modern—proved to be one his greatest strengths. “I’m Bill de Blasio, and I’m not a boring white guy.” How’s that for a political opener? This is how…

  • What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About ‘Passing’

    What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About ‘Passing’ The Atlantic 2013-07-31 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law University of Iowa As I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges that I receive…

  • Race Is Not Biology

    Race Is Not Biology The Atlantic 2013-05-23 Merlin Chowkwanyun Departments of History and Public Health University of Pennsylvania How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine’s Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between “Hispanic” and…

  • What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’

    What We Mean When We Say ‘Race Is a Social Construct’ The Atlantic 2013-05-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor In a world where Kevin Garnett, Harold Ford, and Halle Berry all check “black” on the census, even the argument that racial labels refer to natural differences in physical traits doesn’t hold up. Andrew Sullivan and Freddie…

  • The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards

    The Atlantic Wins Two National Magazine Awards The Atlantic Press Releases 2013-05-02 For media inquiries, please contact: Natalie Raabe at  (202) 266-7533. Washington, D.C. and New York, N.Y. (May 2, 2013)—The Atlantic won two National Magazine Awards, it was announced tonight by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates won in…

  • How the Africans Became Black

    How the Africans Became Black The Atlantic 2012-12-13 Wayétu Moore A Liberian-American reflects on the experiences of Africans who have moved to the United States, a growing community that accounts for 3 percent of the U.S.’s foreign-born population. After leaving my nine-to-five job, I was led to a New York Immigration Coalition job posting. While…

  • Fear of a Black President

    Fear of a Black President The Atlantic September 2012 Ta-Nehisi Coates As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama…

  • Black Is a Multiracial Country

    Black Is a Multiracial Country The Atlantic 2011-02-15 Ta-Nehisi Coates, Senior Editor Tami [Tamara Winfrey Harris] finds out she’s 30 percent white. This changes nothing: So, now, after discovering that I am 70 percent sub-Saharan African with cultural ties to Balanta and Fula peoples in Guinea-Bissau, the Mende people in Sierra Leone, and the Mandinka people…

  • Race, Forgetting, and the Law

    Race, Forgetting, and the Law The Atlantic 2010-07-30 Sara Mayeux Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America is a tour-de-force of archival research, bringing to light countless criminal prosecutions, civil cases, and bureaucratic decisions through which miscegenation laws were enforced not just in the South but throughout the…