online archive
5:00PM
DEC 13 2007
Race against time
From Democracy, lift every voice: A review of Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad; Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign by Michael K. Honey; and New Orleans After the Promises: Poverty, Citizenship and the Search for the Great Society by Kent B. Germany. From Colorlines, from Missouri to Arizona, Ward Connerly targets the ballot box in five more states. The greasy ladder: Middle-income blacks are downwardly mobile — why? High-profile cases of racial insensitivity rile the nation, yet studies affirm that a deeper bias festers, afflicting even those who seem to know better — as soon as we accept this truth, perhaps we can direct our outrage at inequities that really matter. Meet Mr. Hoptoit McNegropants: A review of A Practical Guide to Racism by C.H. Dalton. Race against time: Evolution isn't making people in different parts of the world more distinct — there are no human races, just the one species. No tolerance for human nature: Jonathan Derbyshire reviews Amy Chua's Day of Empire.
