Tag: Donald J. Trump

  • On Turning Black The New York Times 2024-08-01 Esau McCaulley, Contributing Opinion Writer Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President…

  • Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. “We can all see that you’re Black.”

  • The 2020 census continued a longstanding trend of undercounting Black people, Latinos and Native Americans, while overcounting people who identified as white and not Latino, according to estimates from a report the U.S. Census Bureau released Thursday.

  • Anyone else tired of perpetually petulant President Trump blaming former president Barack Obama for, well, everything?

  • The One They’ve Been Waiting for: White Fear and the Rise of Donald Trump Politics of Color: commentary & reflections on race, ethnicity, and politics 2016-11-27 Linda Alvarez, Assistant Professor California State University, Northridge Ivy A. Melgar Cargile, Assistant Professor California State University, Bakersfield Natasha Altema McNeely, Assistant Professor University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley…

  • How Jews Became White Folks — and May Become Nonwhite Under Trump Forward 2016-12-06 Karen Brodkin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology University of California, Los Angeles Decades before I wrote the book “How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America,” I had an eye-opening conversation with my parents. I asked them…

  • 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…

  • Life in Trump’s America: A mixed-race educator in the rural South speaks The Daily Dot 2016-11-18 Courtney Parker West Photo via Gage Skidmore / Flickr (CC-BY-SA) Photo via dolgachov / GettyImages | Remix by Jason Reed This is the first in a series of essays on what lives look like in post-election America. One woman…

  • What must it feel like to be President Obama today? Salon 2016-11-10 Sophia Tesfaye Barack Obama and Donald Trump meet in the Oval Office, Nov. 10, 2016. (Credit: AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) President Obama and Donald Trump meet for their first face-to-face meeting in the White House Thursday While at least a quarter of the country…

  • The “Birther” Movement: Whites Defining Black Racism Review 2016-09-18 Dr. Terence Fitzgerald, Clinical Associate Professor University of Southern California Hallelujah I say, Hallelujah! Did you hear the news? Did ya? After sending a team of investigators to Hawaii, drawing the attention of the national and international media, and leading an almost six year charge of…