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Debating race

From Anthropologies, a special issue on confronting race and racism. From Guernica, a special issue on race in America. Ellen D. Katz (Michigan): A Cure Worse than the Disease? Robert Parrish (Elon): How Quickly We Forget: The Short and Undistinguished Career of Affirmative Action. Wendy Parker (Wake Forest): Recognizing Discrimination: Lessons from White Plaintiffs. Rebecca Gould (Yale-NUS): Jim Crow in the Soviet Union. James H. Dee reviews Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy: Ancients and Moderns by Denise Eileen McCoskey. John Lewis's long fight for voting rights: Nearly five decades after Bloody Sunday in Selma, he’s in the fight of his life, as the Supreme Court threatens to overturn his signature achievement. Steven Hill on how the Voting Rights Act hurts Democrats and minorities. Cedric Johnson and Mel Rothenberg on black politics in the age of Obama. From FDL, a book salon on Homophobia in the Black Church: How Faith, Politics, and Fear Divide the Black Community by Anthony Stanford. Should blacks collect racist memorabilia? Henry Louis Gates Jr. wonders. Eric Horowitz on the hazards of debating race and inequality.