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  • How Are We Still Debating Interracial Marriage in 2022?

    Senator Braun’s mistake was not that he misunderstood the question; it’s that he understood it all too well. The world he and his colleagues are working toward is one in which the national government defers the question of civil and political rights to the states. And it is in the states, free from federal oversight,…

  • Black Like Kamala

    Republican efforts to deny Senator Harris’s identity as an African-American and turn her into a noncitizen are destined to fail.

  • The Obama Paradox

    The Obama Paradox Slate 2017-01-09 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent Our first black president has an unyielding faith in the goodness of America. It got him elected. And it will cost him his legacy. The myth of Barack Obama usually begins with his speech to the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and for good reason—it was…

  • How Trump Happened

    How Trump Happened Slate 2016-03-13 Jamelle Bouie, Chief Political Correspondent It’s not just anger over jobs and immigration. White voters hope Trump will restore the racial hierarchy upended by Barack Obama. “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win,” goes the line attributed to Mahatma Gandhi. Typically,…

  • How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America

    How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America The Diane Rehm Show WAMU 88.5 FM Washington, D.C. 2015-01-05 Diane Rehm, Host Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Pew Research Center Jim Tankersley, Economic Policy Correspondent The Washington Post William Frey, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program (author of Diversity Explosion: How New Racial Demographics Are Remaking America)…

  • The new threat: ‘Racism without racists’

    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…

  • Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites?

    Will Today’s Hispanics Be Tomorrow’s Whites? Slate 2014-04-15 Jamelle Bouie, staff writer covering politics, policy, and race How Hispanics perceive themselves may shape the future of race in America. The Trayvon Martin shooting was hardly in the national consciousness before fault lines emerged around the case. Was Martin as innocent as he seemed? Did Zimmerman…

  • Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness

    Discussing Trayvon Martin, Obama Embraces his Blackness The American Prospect 2013-07-19 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer On Obama’s remarks this afternoon. When President Obama issued a pro forma statement following last week’s verdict in the Zimmerman trial, there was some disappointment—“Why didn’t he say more?” It only takes a small step back to see the answer;…

  • Whither White America?

    Whither White America? The American Prospect 2013-06-13 Jamelle Bouie More thoughts on the future of white people. “Majority-minority” is an unusual term—by definition, minorities are no longer such if they’re in the majority—but it’s a convenient shorthand for what most people expect to happen in the United States over the next few decades. A growing…

  • The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams

    The Democrats’ Demographic Dreams The American Prospect 2012-06-14 Jamelle Bouie, Staff Writer Liberals are counting on population trends to doom 
Republicans to a long-term minority. They shouldn’t. If Democrats agree on anything, it’s that they will eventually be on the winning side. The white Americans who tend to vote Republican are shrinking as a percentage…