Race and Ethnicity

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

White History 101 White History 101

Why can't white people and black people have access to a shared history that is accurate, honest, antiracist and inclusive?

Feb 21, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Gary Younge

Lockdown in Greeley Lockdown in Greeley

A recent police raid on a small-city factory showcases the Bush Administration's frightening war on illegal immigration.

Feb 15, 2007 / Feature / Marc Cooper

And the Beat Goes On… And the Beat Goes On…

A new book examining civil rights coverage demonstrates that the best reporting sometimes requires journalists to toss objectivity out the window.

Dec 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Eric Alterman

‘We Got To Do Better’ ‘We Got To Do Better’

Looking at the longstanding debate in the black community over personal responsibility through the lens of hotghettomess.com.

Dec 20, 2006 / Amy Alexander

America to Me America to Me

What, exactly, does America look like to people like Michael Richards, Mel Gibson and Richard Viguerie?

Dec 8, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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