Tag: Laura Miller

  • “You get a cookie for being offended”: Mat Johnson on the fine art of racial satire Salon 2015-05-24 Laura Miller The author of “Pym” talks about his new novel, his love-hate relationship with Twitter and being a black nerd Mat Johnson is a little apprehensive about his new novel, “Loving Day,” a satire of race…

  • Advances in genealogy and DNA analysis tell surprising and disturbing stories about the heritage we think we know

  • “Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth Salon Sunday, 2013-12-15 Laura Miller, Staff Writer A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on its 265th…

  • Are you white enough? Salon.com 2008-11-10 Laura Miller, Senior Writer From Jim Crow laws to workplace discrimination, the history of race and the American courtroom is incendiary. Come January, Barack Obama will be sworn in as either the first black president of the United States or the 44th white one, or both, or neither, depending…