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  • Looking at Indians, white Americans see themselves

    Thinking about natives in an era of nativism

  • A reflection on Barack Obama’s presidency

    Barack Obama’s presidency lurched between idealism and acrimony but some of his accomplishments will endure

  • The way ahead

    The way ahead The Economist 2016-10-08 Barack Obama, President of The United States America’s president writes for us about four crucial areas of unfinished business in economic policy that his successor will have to tackle WHEREVER I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the…

  • Tomás Santa Rosa, a successful mid-20th-century painter, consoled a dark-skinned peer griping about discrimination, saying that he too “used to be black”.

    Both black and white Brazilians have long considered “whiteness” something that can be striven towards. In 1912 João Baptista de Lacerda, a medic and advocate of “whitening” Brazil by encouraging European immigration, predicted that by 2012 the country would be 80% white, 3% mixed and 17% Amerindian; there would be no blacks. As Luciana Alves,…

  • Slavery’s legacies

    American thinking about race is starting to influence Brazil, the country whose population was shaped more than any other’s by the Atlantic slave trade

  • The mystery of the Melungeons

    The mystery of the Melungeons The Economist 2016-08-24 VARDY, TENNESSEE AND BIG STONE GAP, VIRGINIA The story of an Appalachian people offers a timely parable of the nuanced history of race in America HEAD into Sneedville from the Clinch River, turn left at the courthouse and crawl up Newman’s Ridge. Do not be distracted by…

  • Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study

    Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study Macmillan Ninth Edition 2014 732 pages Paper Text ISBN-10: 1-4292-4217-5; ISBN-13: 978-1-4292-4217-2 Paula S. Rothenberg, Senior Fellow; The Murphy Institute, City University of New York Professor Emerita; William Patterson University of New Jersey Like no other text, this best-selling anthology effectively introduces students to…

  • Some other race

    Some other race The Economist 2013-02-09 How should America count its Hispanics? THE noisy debate over how to fix America’s immigration system is mainly about the large and rapidly growing Hispanic minority. Behind this hums a quieter debate over how they should be counted. Every ten years the American government conducts a census of its…

  • Into the melting pot

    Into the melting pot The Economist 2014-02-08 The rapid rise of mixed-race Britain is changing neighbourhoods—and perplexing the authorities ZADIE SMITH, a novelist born to a black Jamaican mother and a white British father, recently recalled that when she was growing up in Willesden Green, a London district with a large immigrant population, “nothing could…

  • Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy

    Affirmative Action in Brazil: Slavery’s Legacy The Economist Americas View: The Americas 2013-04-26 H.J. São Paulo TO SUM up recent research predicting a mixed-race future for humanity, biologist Stephen Stearns of Yale University turns to an already intermingled nation. In a few centuries, he says, we will all “look like Brazilians”. Brazil shares with the…