Race and Ethnicity

Let It Be Some Other ‘Asian’ Let It Be Some Other ‘Asian’

When the shooter at Virginia Tech was identified to be Korean American, other minorities heaved a sigh of relief. But should they?

Apr 17, 2007 / Feature / Andrew Lam

Exploiting Imus Exploiting Imus

The media's superficial coverage of Don Imus avoids important questions about free speech and race.

Apr 13, 2007 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

The Ho Industry The Ho Industry

In the larger context, the flap over Don Imus's racial slur is only one tiny square in our dirty national quilt.

Apr 13, 2007 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

Don Imus and the State of Women’s Sports Don Imus and the State of Women’s Sports

It's been thirty-five years since Title IX was passed, and women athletes are still battling the kind of sexism Imus espouses.

Apr 11, 2007 / Feature / Dave Zirin

Jesse Jackson Can’t Help Obama Jesse Jackson Can’t Help Obama

Obama thinks Jackson's endorsement will give him a rocket boost with black voters. It won't.

Apr 6, 2007 / Feature / Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Body Language Body Language

A new "ethnic correctness" is taking hold among minorities that might reverse a rising trend among Asians and others to undergo plastic surgery to look more westernized.

Mar 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Lam

Goodbye, Baltimore Goodbye, Baltimore

In a kinetic and searching memoir, Ace of Spades, David Matthews confronts the identity questions that bedeviled him growing up biracial.

Mar 22, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Kate Levin

The Smog of Race War in LA The Smog of Race War in LA

Battles between the city's black and Latino gangs are the outcome of a dismal racial and economic situation.

Mar 21, 2007 / Feature / Roberto Lovato

Gary Tyler’s Quest for Justice Gary Tyler’s Quest for Justice

Sports figures are joining the crusade to free a Louisiana man convicted as a teenager of a murder he didn't commit.

Mar 21, 2007 / Feature / Dave Zirin

L’Étranger L’Étranger

The media have fashioned an impossible portrait of Barack Obama: an American cleansed of the baggage of racism and slavery.

Feb 22, 2007 / Feature / Patricia J. Williams

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