Michael Selmi (GWU): The Obama Administration's Civil Rights Record: The Difference an Administration Makes. Mark S. Brodin (BC): The Slow Demise of Race Preference. Harry G. Hutchison (George Mason): Affirmative Action: Between the Oikos and the Cosmos. Brian T. Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt): Is the Future of Affirmative Action Race Neutral? Sally Haslanger (MIT): Studying While Black: Trust, Opportunity and Disrespect. Erica Frankenberg and Steven L. Nelson (Penn State) and Preston C. Green (UConn): Fighting “Demographic Destiny”: A Legal Analysis of Attempts of the Strategies White Enclaves Might Use to Maintain School Segregation. Resegregation in the American South: Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back. T. Rees Shapiro reviews First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School by Alison Stewart. Affirmative action fail: Richard D. Kahlenberg reviews Place, Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin. Jamelle Bouie on the single fact that powerfully explains why black Americans have such a hard time climbing the economic ladder. From Contexts, Vincent Roscigno and George Wilson on privatization and racial inequality. Clay Risen on the Bill of the Century: The Civil Rights Act, which marks its 50th anniversary this year, changed the shape of American society — the story of how it finally passed is just as remarkable. Fabio Rojas reviews Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism by Karen Ferguson. Has "the conscience of Congress" sold out to big banks? Zach Carter and Ryan Grim on how the Congressional Black Caucus is at war with itself over Wall Street.
