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As reported in the Wall Street Journal today, rich white people own, run, and will rebuild New Orleans in their own image.

What does “critical race” art look like? The introductory text for White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, curated by Maurice Berger at the International Center for Photography (ICP) (in New York City through February 27), makes it seem like the exhibit to follow will engage whiteness and race from a perspective that understands […]

The New York Times
May 25, 2003
by Paul Tough
Leo Felton walked out of prison on Jan. 28, 2001, looking like a man ready to take his place in American society. He had spent 11 years in the custody of the state, but now, at 30, he had served his time and seemed ready to settle down. […]

Yesterday’s Washington Post contained a story, quoted in full below, which is interesting in at least two ways: first, the reliance of whites on, and the general conceptual shoddiness of, “symmetry arguments” (ones in which some right or privilege of white people is defended based upon some ostensibly symmetrical right or privilege of people […]

As reported by FOXNews.com, Trent Lott issued a statement regarding his racist commendation of Strom Thurmond’s segregationist politics:
A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.
That’s […]

As reported by Timothy Noah in What’s a little segregationism among friends?:
I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We’re proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all […]

VALDOSTA, Ga. — Three white students painted a doll black and hanged it from a schoolyard tree, prompting calls from parents and the local NAACP that the FBI should investigate the act as a hate crime.
Lowndes High School officials suspended the students for five days, calling the incident a stupid and embarrassing prank. Principal Ann […]

Nearly four decades later, Bobby Frank Cherry is convicted in the Birmingham church bombing
Wednesday, as word swept through the courthouse that a verdict had been reached, a crush of spectators pressed into the downtown courtroom. The forewoman began to read: “In the case of the State of Alabama versus Bobby Frank Cherry, we find the […]

A fight over rewriting the Alabama state constitution — as racist a state charter as was ever written — reveals the racial fault lines which run throughout the South. While this Economist article perpetuates the muthos of Old and New South, it’s still a readable, cogent introduction to the issues facing Alabama, a state I’ve […]

It is a common liberal claim: the U.S. miltary is not only an historically important model of successful racial integration, it continues to be a model for racial integration today. And yet the US military is a deeply segregated institution. Nearly all of its officer corps, all front-line combat commanders, highly skilled or high prestige […]