Race Inquiry Digest (May 6) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Featured – Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAHS
Featured – Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South. By J.T. Roane / AAHS
Featured – The US white majority will soon disappear forever. By Dudley Poston and Rogelio Saenz / The Conversation
Featured – The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White. By Emily Badger, Quoctruing Bui, and Robert Gebeloff / NYT
Featured – Closing the Racial Wealth Gap. By Courtney E. Martin / NYT
Featured – Inciting Hatred Is Trump’s 2020 Game Plan. By John Nichols / The Nation
Featured – Demonizing Minority Women. By Charles M. Blow / NYT
Featured – People are again talking about slavery reparations. But it’s a complex and thorny issue. By Doug Criss / CNN
Featured – Salon talks to Gates about American history and his new PBS doc “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War.” By Melanie McFarland / Salon
Featured – White supremacy must be undone — institution by institution. By Michael Gerson / Wash Post
Featured – Scholar Kathleen Belew on New Zealand, Donald Trump and the rise of “white power.” By Chauncey DeVega / Salon
Featured – As a Black Mother, My Parenting Is Always Political. By Dani McClain / The Nation
Featured – Cornell Belcher schools progressives on what it will take to win the White House in 2020. Stephanie Griffith / ThinkProgress
Featured – The entrenched segregation of New York City’s public high schools. By Rachel Leah / Salon
Featured – Democrats Have Long Been Terrified of the White Moderate. Elizabeth Warren Apparently Has No Such Fear. By Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate
Featured – It’s Time to Attack White Nationalism for the Terror Group It Is. By Christopher Dickey / The Daily Beast
Featured – After 100 years, Mussolini’s fascist party is a reminder of the fragility of freedom. By Richard Gunderman / The Conversaation
Featured – Curtis Mayfield’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell. By Jason Heller / The Atlantic
Featured – How Donald Trump Played the (White) Race Card and Reshaped the Democratic Party. By Nina Burleigh / Newsweek
Featured – How Do We Counteract Othering in America Today? By Editorial Staff / The Progressive
Featured – The Deepening ‘Racialization’ of American Politics. By Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Featured – Democrats welcome an increasingly diverse America; Republicans aren’t so sure. By Matthew Yglesias / Vox
Feature – What it Really Means to Be Indian. By Mark Anthony Rolo / The Progressive
Featured – The black men of the Civil War were America’s original ‘dreamers.’ By Colbert King / Wash Post
Featured – New York City Public Schools Should Be Evaluated Based on Diversity, Not Just Tests, Panel Says. By Eliza Shapiro / NYT
Featured – How Trump Continues to Use Race as a Prop. By Jamil Smith / Rolling Stone
Featured – State of the Union 2019: A Stacey Abrams essay you should read. By Zack Beauchamp / Vox
Featured – Northam’s ugly yearbook photo and the racist origins of blackface. The image of a man in blackface standing beside a figure in Klan…
Featured – Closing the Gulf Between Black and White Christians. By Emma Green / The Atlantic