From Caregivers to Social Reformers
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
Race
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Google and the Gemini Debacle
This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered.
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
A Revolution on Race?
With ‘The End of Race Politics,’ Coleman Hughes enters the ranks of the most mature and sophisticated analysts of the all-American skin game.
The Optimistic Space Between Black and White
Reflecting on "The Case for Black Optimism" by Coleman Hughes
Virtuous Lies and Black Despair
Many leftists claim that black Americans are crushed beneath a vast, racist social machinery. It is hard to imagine a more demoralizing message.
Martin Luther King’s Understanding of Racism
King’s sophisticated understanding of racism bridges two worldviews: that racism is primarily systemic and as well as interpersonal.
British and Black
Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited
Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide
Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.
Race and State
The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.
More Than Just a Social Construct
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.