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Do social networks create job market inequality?


Rush to identify suspects reveals bigotry


Minorities smeared over housing bubble


Mr. Hikind’s awful choice


Factoring whiteness into mass shootings

Categories: Behavior, Crime, Guns, Race

Calls for justice should be colorblind

Why is there outrage when “an unarmed black teen is killed by a non-black adult,” but a “business as usual” attitude when black teens are killed by other blacks in their communities, asks Nsenga Burton in The Root. Calls for justice shouldn’t “be driven by the color of the alleged assailant’s skin,” she says. [Read More]
Categories: Guns, Race
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Preferences actually hurt minority youth

Affirmative action often harms those it intends to help, say Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor in The Atlantic. Students who might have thrived in less competitive environments are placed in schools where they can’t perform, resulting in lower grades and higher dropout rates, they say. [Read More]
Categories: Race

Republicans can be all-white no more

Categories: Race, Republicans

Powerful story or shallow perspective?

Even the trailer for the upcoming movie “The Impossible,” about a vacationing family’s efforts to reunite after a tsunami hit Thailand in 2004 is potent. But, writes David Haglund in Slate, such movies create the impression that white lives matter more. [Read More]

Ryan pick full of racial significance

Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate settled the question of what he might to do reach out to African-American and Hispanic voters, writes Janell Ross at the Huffington Post. It means the Republican ticket will have to go heavily for the white vote in a campaign likely to be full of […] [Read More]