Racial Issues

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  • Letters to the Editor

    Unacceptable emotional violence; black men are not "beasts"; reading Japan wrong.
    Letters to the Editor April 28, 1999

  • Raging against "the Machine"

    When a Congolese student ran against the white Greek establishment for University of Alabama's student government presidency, the campus was forced to confront its history of racial strife.
    By Julekha Dash March 20, 1999

  • When white means "weak"

    For urban high schoolers, it isn't news that whites are a minority in California.
    By Russell Morse March 19, 1999

  • Justice in Jasper

    King murder trial report: In the face of naked evil, the races in Jasper, Texas, come together.
    By Faulkner Fox February 26, 1999

  • Journey to the Center of a Race

    Fetzer Mills, Jr. interviews Randall Kenan, author of 'Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century.'
    By Fetzer Mills Jr. February 24, 1999

  • A silent wind blows

    Conservatives seem to have nothing to say when it comes to racism, hate crimes and white supremacists.
    By Joe Conason February 23, 1999

  • Stop using our children

    Don't tell me the president's sexual liaisons are the most important national issue we have to discuss with our children.
    By Sherrilyn A. Ifill February 4, 1999

  • Cold front

    An ugly encounter on a Viennese metro colors a winter's day.
    By Mona R. Washington January 12, 1999

  • Voice of America

    Anna Deavere Smith: The shy priestess of performance art has made a career acting out the intimate confessions of others.
    By Carol Lloyd December 8, 1998

  • Across the great divide

    If government programs can't solve America's racial dilemma, can love? Three new books take a fresh look at the ongoing challenge of black-and-white integration.
    By Gary Kamiya October 19, 1998

  • Mrs. Cosby's racial paranoia

    What right does a grieving mother have to blame American racism for the murder of her son by a Ukrainian immigrant?
    By David Horowitz July 13, 1998

  • A kinder, gentler cowboy

    Ric Lynden Hardman revives the cowboy genre with "Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western" -- a picaresque, cocky, playful coming-of-age novel.
    By Polly Shulman June 4, 1998

  • Young, black and too white

    Once exclusionary bastions of the negro elite, black social clubs for kids are making a comeback among middle-class parents who fear their chlidren are losing their roots.
    By Karen Grigsby Bates May 15, 1998

  • "He Got Game"

    Spike Lee's "He Got Game" is a sentimental but affecting look at how a father regained his long-lost son -- through basketball.
    By Gary Kamiya April 30, 1998

  • Media Circus:

    The Latrell Sprewell case may signal the collapse of America's last racial utopia -- sports.
    By Gary Kamiya December 10, 1997

  • gangsta athletes, anxious whites

    THE LATRELL SPREWELL CASE MAY SIGNAL THE COLLAPSE OF AMERICA'S LAST RACIAL UTOPIA -- SPORTS.
    BY GARY KAMIYA December 10, 1997

  • American apartheid

    The controversy over a multiracial category on
    census forms shows that racial and ethnic advocacy groups
    aren't worried about fairness
    as much as they're worried about spoils.
    By David Horowitz July 18, 1997

  • 21st: Race matters in cyberspace, too

    Experts and entrepreneurs struggle to explain why African-Americans are underrepresented in the online population and in the Net industry.
    By Cynthia Joyce July 5, 1997

  • 21st

    Salon 21st: No, Virginia, black folks aren't cool: Leonce Gaiter writes that the Web's anarchic town square feels like a hostile place for African-Americans still eager to embrace old-fashioned values.
    By Leonce Gaiter July 5, 1997

  • Honky Blues

    Abolish whiteness! say the advocates of white studies, academia's latest -- and most bewildering -- theory of race relations."
    By Tim Duggan July 3, 1997

  • Newsreal

    An American anti-terrorism expert reveals how he trained Peruvian government police to storm the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and rescue the hostages who had been held for four months by guerrillas from the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
    By Samuel G. Freedman April 25, 1997

  • Not just the color of our skin

    It's time for blacks to acknowledge that their experience of oppression does not set them apart from the human race, argues writer Hugh Pearson.
    By Hugh Pearson April 6, 1996

  • The Talking Cure

    In a misguided attempt to alleviate racial and sexual tensions, corporate America is turning the workplace into a giant therapy couch.
    By Joan Walsh December 30, 1995

  • Heart of Darkness

    Anthropologist Philippe Bourgois went deeper into America's crack culture than anyone before him. Too deep.
    By Gary Kamiya December 2, 1995
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