“What I’ve been going toward is this idea that pink is the inverse of black, or kind of the flip side—it’s part of it. Black (Continue Reading)
“What I’ve been going toward is this idea that pink is the inverse of black, or kind of the flip side—it’s part of it. Black (Continue Reading)
For years I have been bugged by the way people cast blame for a systemic problem on one individualized person or institution. On the listservs, (Continue Reading)
Guy B. Johnson, quoted in Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste, wrote: “This fact [total control over slaves] is of great significance for the understanding of racial conflict (Continue Reading)
Hearing Stuart Stevens confess his mistake in believing the Republican Party was about governance and prosperity rather than about its true north, racism, reminded me (Continue Reading)
This quote from the Zocalo Public Square:The final key factor that tied barbecue to Independence Day celebrations in the South was the key role of (Continue Reading)
Reading Sam Floyd, my suspicions rise over terms like “cultural memory.” I recall a disturbing conversation with a Prof. Woods, chairperson of the art department (Continue Reading)
We wonder at times how our grandchildren navigate their biraciality. They live in the East Valley of Maricopa County, Arizona, one of the reddest parts (Continue Reading)
Like many emerging American cities at the time, Phoenix’s spectacular growth did not occur evenly. It largely took place on the city’s north side, a (Continue Reading)
The American immigrant story has a foil, African-Americans. Our first encounters with this go something like Uncle Harry telling of his grandfather who came to (Continue Reading)
In Michelle Obama’s new book she has two class pictures, one of her kindergarten class and one of her first grade class in a school (Continue Reading)
I’m sure I’ve written up this incident here before but cannot find it. It points to the centrality of music and esp of rhythmic music (Continue Reading)
The general opinion among Whites is that Black culture is something Blacks can study as a separate issue while the general study of the U.S. (Continue Reading)
The reasoning that goes on behind the shootings protested by Black Lives Matter seems shallow. Why does the story run so often along these lines: (Continue Reading)
Nicholas Lemann’s The Promised Land posits a connection between the so-called underclass of the Northern ghettos and the impoverished share-croppers of the deep South who (Continue Reading)
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle this weekend in Great Britain marks a point on the circle of the African slave trade if (Continue Reading)
Anyway, I wanted to force on you some more stuff I’ve come across recently which supports the thesis of my Magnum Opus, which is that (Continue Reading)
In Generations of Captivity, Berlin describes the jubilation of free people of color in the Lower Mississippi Valley when that region became part of the (Continue Reading)
The man was 97 years old, had been in CCC and the military in WW II. He started a business and was the first Black (Continue Reading)
When you develop a grand theory, you like to find supporting evidence. The trick is to avoid looking ONLY at items that support your (Continue Reading)
Last night we went to the ASU football game. I am not a sports fan but my wife had to be peeled off the ceiling (Continue Reading)
Ta-N3hisi Coates has a new article in the Atlantic about Trump’s presidency being a negation of Obama’s. Just a glance at Greg Sargent’s resume of (Continue Reading)
At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Y0EgnLznA you can see a good example of the sort of worship service typically called holiness. The video recalls to me many, many evenings (Continue Reading)