Post-Whiteness
Whose bodies and lives will this grand social vision of a post-racial world benefit especially when considering the counter-investment in notions of "blackness" that post-racial propagandists seem to maintain?
Whose bodies and lives will this grand social vision of a post-racial world benefit especially when considering the counter-investment in notions of "blackness" that post-racial propagandists seem to maintain?
Lori Ungemah | Posted 04.10.2012
Articles are examining what the tweeters said and the potential whys behind their actions, but nobody is branching out to ask, "What next?"
Marjon Rebecca Carlos | Posted 04.09.2012
While Black female creative professionals try to gain footing in the wake of such staggering facts, it is no wonder then that the rise of the Black girl crush has emerged. In fact, it has crested in my own life, as I have been working freelance since May 2011.
Bruce Reyes-Chow | Posted 03.17.2012
On this, the 2012 remembrance of the birth of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., let me just offer three very random thoughts on the "post-racial" question.
Melanie Coffee | Posted 12.06.2011
I hate the notion that some of us black folks come with an asterisk. I'm black, but (asterisk) I love Guns N' Roses. I'm black, but (asterisk) I can watch Professional Bull Riding for hours. I'm black but (asterisk) I'm still looking for someone to teach me how to Dougie.
Steve Nelson | Posted 10.25.2011
Obscured by incessant chatter about the credit rating and national debt is the sad reality of poverty and hunger in America. At the root of these issues is the ugly legacy of racism and the failure to recognize white privilege.
Melanie Coffee | Posted 10.25.2011
It's exhausting to feel like the spokeswoman for your race. Sometimes I have the energy to do it, other times I don't want to be bothered. Many times I think: Why? Why do I have to answer this?
Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011
Is Jim Crow back? Are African Americans, particularly African American men, once more suffering systematic discrimination on the basis of race -- a discrimination that locks them out of equal rights and basic citizenship?
Asher Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
It seems that the rush to declare the Obama presidency the harbinger of a "post-racial America" has coincided with a concurrent rush to forget what was once widely known about racism.
Earnest Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
In many ways it appears President Obama's victory and presence in the White House has actually caused a lot of people to get worse about their issues regarding so-called "race."
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 05.25.2011
In our efforts to move past race, we have run right smack into it. There is no doubt about it. Rather than moving us toward a post-racial society, it has made us hyper vigilant of how race and power intersect in American society.
Elon James White | Posted 11.17.2011
In a country that's supposedly so past race, it's quite amusing to watch folks completely trip over it.
Jamie Holmes | Posted 05.25.2011
The real conversation on race, like it or not, is still pending. Barack Obama's win was a profound public testimony to American decency. But in numerous areas, blacks remain severely disadvantaged.
Hermene Hartman | Posted 05.25.2011
There is no comfortable time to discuss America's racial issues. There is no right time. There will always be something else more pressing. America needs to look its racism in the mirror.
Caryl Rivers | Posted 05.25.2011
Sarah is a tintype of what we used to be -- or who we believed we were: rugged individuals who charged across the continent, ripping up trees and taming the prairies.
Elon James White | Posted 05.25.2011
After yelling "freeze" Walker was then shot and killed.
Karen Finney | Posted 05.25.2011
The incident in Cambridge comes on the heels of a number of incidents over the past several months that reminded us of the unfinished business race and prejudice in our country.
Sophia A. Nelson | Posted 05.25.2011
Professor Gates is someone who deserves better from America. Yet, at the end of the day, he was just another black man residing while black.
Brandon M. Terry | Posted 05.25.2011
Gates was charged with "disorderly conduct." Blacks easily recognize this offense as the failure of a black to show proper deference to a white police officer.
Elon James White | Posted 05.25.2011

Bakari Kitwana | Posted 05.25.2011
This cartoon's arrival on newsstands is way out of step with the times. Regardless of its intention, it reinforces the notion that national conversations on race are long over due.
Earnest Harris | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that President-Elect Obama has become President Obama we can finally turn our attention to the real work of getting this country back on track and into that famously promised "post racial America."
Darnell L. Moore | Posted 05.24.2012