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Race



  • On Gates and Curran's "Who's Black and Why"

    by John Samuel Harpham

    "Like all ideas, race has a history. There was a time before it. In turn conceptions of it have shifted over time, and it has been charged with different meanings in different settings." Gates and Curran have identified a little-studied collection of 1739 essays on race that mark a key shift in the idea.



  • Pete Buttigieg’s race problem

    by Tyler D. Parry

    He doesn’t truly understand the problems plaguing black America and their racist roots.



  • The Radical Lives of Abolitionists

    by Britt Rusert

    History has tended to sanitize the lives of abolitionists, many of whom were involved in other radical movements as well, including Free Love, which promoted women’s independence and an end to traditional marriage. A review of Holly Jackson's American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Protest Shaped the Nation.



  • The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share

    by Richard Rothstein

    Persistent housing segregation lies at the root of many of our society’s problems. Trump wants to make it worse.