Race and Ethnicity

The New Nativism The New Nativism

The nation must address the working-class anxieties underlying the anti-Hispanic sentiments now rising in Middle America--and Congress must pass an enlightened immigration bill tha...

Aug 10, 2006 / The Editors

Shadows Shadows

George Hutchinson's new biography of the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance reconsiders both Nella Larsen and a key moment of black cultural history.

Jun 28, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Darryl Pinckney

The Plot Against America The Plot Against America

John Updike's Terrorist rips its plot from the headlines. But the book's Irish-Egyptian protagonist is paper-thin, and its jihad-lit plot remains stubbornly inanimate, devoid of pa...

Jun 26, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Shainin

Biker Mecca on Sacred Ground Biker Mecca on Sacred Ground

Native American activists are braced for a tense summer, as a motorcycling entrepreneur goes forward with plans for a resort that will draw hundreds of thousands of bikers to the s...

Jun 24, 2006 / Feature / Anne Keala Kelly

Drug Busts=Jim Crow Drug Busts=Jim Crow

The drug war is the heir to Jim Crow: a form of widespread, legalized discrimination.

Jun 21, 2006 / Feature / Ira Glasser

Borrowed Bodies Borrowed Bodies

In a New York courtroom, a jury must decide whether a hip-hop-loving young white man who beat a young black man with a baseball bat is guilty of assault or a hate crime.

Jun 8, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

Anatomy of a Murder Anatomy of a Murder

Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants,...

May 24, 2006 / Books & the Arts / David Bradley

On Native Grounds On Native Grounds

Alan Taylor's Divided Ground examines how land-grabbing settlers destroyed Indian society and how postrevolutionary politicians speeded their demise.

May 4, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Lazare

A Darker Shade of Noir A Darker Shade of Noir

Walter Mosley's Fortunate Son is a serious novel about intimately connected yet diametrically opposed black and white stepbrothers.

Apr 20, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Robert Christgau

A Short History of the Pads of Brillo A Short History of the Pads of Brillo

Martians visiting planet Earth are mystified by the racist ruckus over Representative Cynthia McKinney's hair.

Apr 13, 2006 / Column / Patricia J. Williams

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