Race Inquiry Digest (October 29) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – 72 hours in America: Three hate-filled crimes. Three hate-filled suspects.
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Trump’s Midterms Strategy Is Fear, Lies, and (White) Nationalism – Joan Walsh / The Nation
America’s Relentless Suppression of Black Voters – Lawrence Goldstone / The New Republic
Booked: How to Pick an Electorate, with Carol Anderson – Marcia Chatelain / Dissent
Stacey Abrams and the Politics of Georgia’s Old State Flag – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Confederate pride and prejudice – Frances Stead Sellers / Wash Post
At trial, Harvard officials explain rejecting alternatives to using race in admissions – Josh Gerstein / Politico
Can these descendants of enslaved Africans save their unique culture – Pete Marovich / Wash Post
Le’Veon Bell’s agent knows the struggle – Jesse Washington / The Undefeated
The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture – Margaret Talbot / The New Yorker
The Double Battle: Frederick Douglass’s moral crusade – Eric Foner / The Nation
Historian Christopher Browning on the Trump regime: We’re “close to the point of no return” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
Fear of a Black Continent – Ross Douthat / NYT
Elizabeth Warren’s DNA test raises fraught questions of Native American identity, tribes say – Erik Ortiz and Angel Torres / NBC News
Louisiana voters will have a chance to strike down a Jim Crow law this November – German Lopez / Vox
Voter-Suppression Tactics in the Age of Trump – Jelani Cobb / The New Yorker
Analysis: Brian Kemp has purged over 300,000 voters from Georgia rolls – Shira Tarlo / Salon
Andrew Gillum, Florida’s possible next governor, has the winning message for Democrats – Simon Greer / Salon
The Uncertain Fate of Affirmative Action – Matt Ford / The New Republic
The Harvard admissions plaintiffs are being used – Christine Emba / Wash Post
Stone Mountain: The Largest Confederate Monument Problem in the World – Richard Fausset / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (October 25) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David Blight. Blight, who teaches American history at Yale, has long been drawn to the study of Douglass: His…
A Place for Ida B. Wells at Ole Miss – Jemar Tisby / NYT
Watch : The Eugenics Crusade / PBS Video
The Underlying Attack in the Harvard Admissions Lawsuit – Jeffrey Toobin / The New Yorker
I’m an Asian-American Harvard Alumnus. Affirmative Action Works – Robert Rhew / NYT
Voter suppression efforts are increasing across America. It’s time for a new Voting Rights Act – Daniel Nichanian / NBC News
