American Apartheid, Melting Slowly?
Racism Moves Out, peterthomasryan.com Not only are we excited to spot Reynolds Farley’s Contexts article “The Waning of American Apartheid?” (Summer 2011) written up in the Emerging Ideas section of...
View ArticleAssessing Brown v. Board of Education
A memorial to the “Little Rock 9,” students who integrated the Little Rock schools in Arkansas on Sept. 23, 1957, following the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. Photo...
View ArticleThe City of Put-Upon Curmudgeons?
The lead article in the most recent Philadelphia Magazine, “Being White In Philly” by Robert Huber, has—to put it politely—spurred a lot of talk. Huber devotes his article to sharing the “true” voice...
View ArticleSelf-Segregation in San Francisco Schools
Photo by WoodleyWonderworks, Flickr.com. School segregation has been the topic of social science research and public debate for decades. Still, the average person may think than in the post-Civil...
View ArticleReproducing Racial Wealth and Education Gaps
The racial integration of West Hollywood, mapped by Eric Fischer (flickr CC), inspired by Bill Rankin. In an era of “post-racial” rhetoric, whites may not openly declare their prejudices and biases...
View ArticleDiverse Schools Increase Workplace Diversity
Integrated kids become integrated adults. Photo via Scripps National Spelling Bee, Flickr CC. Nearly 20 years have passed since Beverly Daniel Tatum released her groundbreaking book, Why Are All the...
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