Is There a Link Between White Racism and Blacks’ Higher Rate of Fatal Heart Disease?
A new national study finds a disturbing correlation. By Tom Jacobs A sign in Jackson, Mississippi, dated 1961.…
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Ghosts of White People Past: Witnessing White Flight From an Asian Ethnoburb
If diversity is so important to liberal whites, why do they keep fleeing ethnically diverse suburbia?
It’s Time We Took a Closer Look at Our School District Borders
To understand the importance of school district boundaries, you have to go back to 1974. By Dwyer Gunn…
Despite Progress, Many Still Find Interracial Marriage Icky
People say they’re OK with it, but new experiments suggest otherwise. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Ferran Jordà/Flickr) In…
Veterans Are Less Likely to Live in Segregated Neighborhoods
New research suggests the experience of military service makes whites more open to living alongside people of all…
When We Criminalize Students, It’s African-American Kids Who Suffer the Consequences
Zero-tolerance policies were intended to curb the war on drugs in the 1980s. More than 30 years later,…
Signaling White Supremacy and Provoking Racist Backlash
What happens when you call out David Duke. By Lisa Wade KKK members supporting Barry Goldwater’s campaign for…
White Trash: The Original Underclass
Waste people. Rubbish. Clay-eaters. Hillbillies. Two new books that reckon with the long, bleak history of the country’s…
There’s Research Behind All the Recent Anti-Voter ID Rulings
Courts in several states have ruled against strict voter identification laws over the past few weeks, offering something…
How Slavery Changed the DNA of African Americans
Widespread sexual exploitation before the Civil War strongly influenced the genetic make-up of essentially all African Americans alive today.