Tag: race

Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”

Nicole Chung wants white parents of transracial adoptees to grapple more candidly with the reality of racism in America.

In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘All You Can Ever Know,’ transracial adoptee Nicole Chung recounts how her parents came to adopt her.

Eloghosa Osunde contemplates the role of marginalized artists in online activism.

Sharmila Sen grew up understanding distinctions between castes and religions, between the educated and the illiterate. Race was a distinction she didn’t understand until she came to America.

As a mixed-race kid with free-form hair, Lisa Rosenberg believed learning to blow bubblegum bubbles would be her ticket to an idealized (white) American girlhood.

A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.

The hope and future of the United States is bound to Alabama’s.

Issac Bailey wants us to recognize that the families of perpetrators need just as much support as the families of victims.

Paying attention to the Poor People’s Campaign.

In an essay for the Guardian, writer and journalist Margo Jefferson considers how the new multiculturalism of the House of Windsor has refreshed the royal house’s relevancy and appeal. Markle majored in international relations and theatre at Northwestern University, Illinois. Besides becoming an actor, she became a feminist who worked for UN Women as an advocate for political […]

Did Dana Schutz’s painting engage with her subject, Emmett Till, ethically and responsibly?

Minda Honey explores the long unraveling of a #MeToo moment in the wake of cultural upheaval.

When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.

Lessons of race, blackness and power from a self-described nerdy Black girl.

Nicole Chung contemplates loss, adoption, and working on a book her late father won’t get to see.

Joseph Williams reports on the increasing vulnerability of renters like himself.

Dara Lurie reflects on what she discovered about her own racism while living at a state-run home for disadvantaged children.

Imran Siddiquee considers the ways in which his identities — as a Bangladeshi-American and as a man — were shaped by growing up in the shadow of The Simpsons.

Susan Sheu considers her estrangement from her conservative mom, who tried to teach her to stand up and be heard in a male-dominated world — but not to be too unladylike about it.

Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in the Palouse region of Washington State.

“Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”

This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.

“I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”

“The goal, however, was the same as ever: fear. And it worked.”

Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”

Amanda Machado adds her voice to the growing chorus of women of color claiming their place in the rugged outdoors.

In Harper’s, Solnit considers who has access to what spaces, and with what limitations?

Zadie Smith examines the racially-charged work of Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out’ and Dana Schutz’s ‘Emmett Till’