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Germany Has Lessons For the South – Anand Giridharadas / NYT
The Science of Race, Revisited – David Freeman / Huff Post
Dear White America – Tim Wise
“Sparing neither family nor self . . . he considers how the deck has always been stacked in his and other white people’s favor. ….
The Memorial Where Slavery is Real – Ben Wofford / Politico
America’s Postracial Fantasy – Anna Holmes / NYT
Republicans Don’t Find Racism To Be As Serious A Problem As The Rest of America – Janie Velencia / Huff Post
Arthur Ashe: 40 Years After His Historic Wimbledon Win, His Legacy Lives Beyond The Tennis Court – Deron Snyder / The Root
The Declaration’s dual traditions: Broad equality and equality for whites – Danielle Allen / Wash Post
Past Voices – The Story of Denmark Vesey – Thomas Wentworth Higginson / June 1861 Issue – The Atlantic
On Saturday afternoon, May 26th, 1822, a slave named Devany, belonging to Colonel Prioleau of Charleston, South Carolina, was sent to market by his mistress—the…
The Lease Diverse Jobs in America – Bourree Lam / The Atlantic
After Dominican Republic pulls up welcome mat, Haitians ask ‘what next’ – Ezra Fieser / Christian Science Monitor
Why do people believe myths about the Confederacy? Because our textbooks and monuments are wrong – James Loewen / Wash Post
A Conversation With White People on Race – Blair Foster and Michele Stephenson / NYT
Past Voices – “The Negro Question” – Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
This text was written by Albert Einstein in 1946. I am writing as one who has lived among you in America only a little more…
The end of affirmative action? Eric Levitz / MSNBC
Loving Day – Mat Johnson
Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comics shop in…
America Finally Turns Its Attention to Rampant Racism – Markus Feldenkirchen / Spigel Online
Last Battles – Jalani Cobb / The New Yorker
The Supreme Court Doesn’t Think Racism’s Over after All – Suzy Khimm / The New Republic
Obama’s Grace – James Fallows / The Atlantic
Racism’s Psychological Toll – Jenna Wortham / NYT
What is Whiteness ? – Nell Irvin Painter / NYT
Nina Simon’s Time Is Now Again – Salamishah Tillet / NYT
A Long List of Other Ways Southern States Officially Endorse the Confederacy – Ben Mathis Lilley, Jeremy Stahl and Amy X. Wang / Slate
Homegrown Radicals More Deadly Than Jihadis in US – Scott Shane / NYT
Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today – Jacqueline Battalora
Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when…
