Racial Issues

Minority Retort

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.23.2012

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Chez Pazienza

What new Census data proves is what the Republican party already knows very well: the traditionally conservative electorate, essentially their entire way of thinking and the political clout it's held, is in danger of being demographically pushed out of existence.

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Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?

William Bradley | Posted 05.27.2012

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William Bradley

Fortunately, Woodstock is still a long ways off. And the Summer of Love is, too (along with San Francisco), though it's just over a year away in the Mad Men universe. But the rumblings of change -- in this case racial change and generational change -- are getting much louder.

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Broadening Our Conversations

Michael Hanchard | Posted 10.19.2011

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Michael Hanchard

We have been both astonished and frustrated over the years by the isolationist cast of much commentary about the black experience in the United States and racism more generally as an international, rather than national phenomenon.

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White Man's Burden Redux: The Movie!

Mike Barber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Barber

Since more whites than non-whites are shown throughout our pop culture as the people effecting change, the lesson inferred is that these individual cases we see in movies and on TV are the rule, when they're really the exception.

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