Russell W. Irvine, Ph.D. (1944 – 2018) -“Down But Not Out” – Ronald J. Sheehy / Race Inquiry
Our friend and colleague, Russell W. Irvine, died on Sunday. His was not a protracted struggle with a debilitating illness, but a sudden exhaustion of life…
Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Race Inquiry Digest (June 18) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness. Being white in America has long been treated, at least by white people, as…
How Much Can Democrats Count on Suburban Liberals? Thomas B. Edsall / NYT
Three Years After Dylann Roof, Neo-Confederates Are Back – Mark Potok / The Daily Beast
WHAT TRUTH SOUNDS LIKE by Michael Eric Dyson – Kirkus Review
Why black women’s experiences of #MeToo are different – Yolonda Wilson / The Conversation
San Francisco’s First Black Female Mayor Defies the Liberal Litmus Test – Jamilah King / Mother Jones
#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience – Ibram X. Kendi / Black Perspectives
The United States’ Long History Of Separating Families Of Color – Sara Boboltz / HuffPost
It Shouldn’t Have Taken a Lawsuit to Find Out Harvard Was Biased Against Asian Americans – Aaron Mak / Slate
Sally Hemings Takes Center Stage – Annette Gordin-Reed / NYT
White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness – Emily Bazelon / NYT
Race Inquiry Digest (June 14) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address. At Pomona College, Danielle Allen spoke about the Declaration of Independence and its electric cord….
Joe Louis KO’d white supremacy and Max Schmeling 80 years ago – Jeff Rivers / The Undefeated
The Supreme Court just cleared the way for the mass disenfranchisement of voters – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health – Olga Khazan / The Atlantic
Ira Berlin, 1941–2018 – Remembering a man who transformed scholarship on slavery and African-American culture – Eric Foner / The Nation
Georgia church expelled from Southern Baptist Convention over racial discrimination charges – Holly Meyer / USA Today
Natural Hair Styles Are Gaining Popularity And Creating A Community For People In Pittsburgh – Allegra Battle / NPR
Bearing The Cross – Book Excerpt by Cornel West / The Crisis
How Northern Newspapers Covered Lynchings – Charles Seguin / NYT
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism by Howard Bryant ( A Short Summary)
Following in the footsteps of Robeson, Ali, Robinson and others, today’s Black athletes re-engage with social issues and the meaning of American patriotism. It used…
A Radically Woke and Deeply Conservative Commencement Address – Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic
Race Inquiry Digest (June 11) – Important Current Stories On Race In America
Feature – Donald Trump’s empire of disorientation: Where the future is the past, made worse. Trump wants to turn back the clock — but how…
Steve Kerr speaks truth to power — and his players respect him for it – Marc J. Spears / The Undefeated
Anthony Bourdain’s Meal With Obama Was a Proud American Moment – John Hendrickson / Rolling Stone
What a 1963 RFK-James Baldwin meeting teaches us about race in Trump’s America – Sean Illing / Vox
North Carolina tries to revive its discriminatory voter ID law as constitutional amendment – Kira Lerner / ThinkProgress
African-Americans and the Strains of the National Anthem – Brent Staples / NYT
A second American Civil War? Robert Reich / Salon
The Jewish family on Hitler’s street: “We didn’t know he was going to turn the world upside down” – Chauncey Devega / Salon
