Obama Painted as a Rapist: White Conservatives
Tweet Kudos to Rachel Maddow for her story Friday night’s show (see here , beginning at about the one minute mark) about the way cons on radio and TV have referred to President Obama as a rapist. Much...
View Article“All-American” Basketball League? All White?
Tweet Last week a former wrestling promoter named Don “Moose” Lewis announced his intention to start up a new basketball league called the “All-American Basketball Alliance,” or AABA. In this league...
View ArticleRacism & Antiracism: New Research
TweetFor the annual ASA conference in Atlanta, the session on racism and antiracism (organized by Eileen O’Brien) was divided into two, held back-to-back in the same room. With my presentation in the...
View ArticleRace-Based Violence: Our Double Standard
Tweet Heard any reports of “flash mob violence” in the news lately? Now that “flash mobs” are apparently no longer limited to the “cute” actions of white upper-middle class people, such as dancing to...
View ArticleMoving Towards a “Post-Racial” Society? Not Really.
Tweet Based upon the results from Tuesday’s election, are we in post-racial society? As Joe pointed out in his post after the election, of course not. I will take this one step further: is U.S. society...
View ArticleOverboard with “Rationality”: Django Unchained and “Mandingo Fighting”
TweetQuentin Tarantino certainly has a knack for igniting controversy with his films. Perhaps no movie of his has started such a hullabaloo than his latest work, Django Unchained, drawing criticism...
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Whiteness, Structure, and the Royal Baby Obsession
TweetAs I’m sure you’ve heard by now (how could you possibly miss it?), a baby was born in Great Britain, considered to be the third in line to the monarchy. A story that came to receive almost as...
View ArticleRace, Nationality, & Fertility: The Transnational Value of Whiteness
TweetSurrogacy (the act of a woman carrying a fetus to term for another person) has been a controversial topic for many years now. From a critical race perspective, Dorothy Roberts and others have...
View ArticleFaçade of Tolerance: Donald Sterling, the NBA, and Systemic Racism
TweetOver the weekend, much media buzz centered on the release by TMZ of a recorded conversation between Donald Sterling and V. Stiviano, his girlfriend. In the conversation, Sterling expresses his...
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Coming Home to Roost: Defending White Spaces in U.S. Society
TweetThe story of the pool party in McKinney, Texas brings to light a number of things about the society we live in: namely, that it is a white racist society that has far more lingering problems than...
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