Articles by Ronald J. Sheehy
Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, Capital Punishment and a Movement Responds – Jerome Karabel / Huff Post
Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past and it’s poisoning our future – Andrew O’Hehir / Salon
White Republicans are revolting: They keep winning elections and keep getting angrier – David T.S. Jonas / Salon
The Dying of the Whites – Ross Douthat / NYT
Dear white America: Your working class is literally dying – and this is your idea of an answer? Chauncey Devega/ Salon
Racism? By whom? This video of Texas cops stopping a black professor is a racial “Rorschach test’ – Michael Miller / Wash Post
Death Rates Rising for Middle Aged White Americans, Study Finds – Gina Kolata / NYT
Obama’s big push to address race, quietly – Harry Bruinius / Christian Sci Monitor
Past Voices – In 1865, a writer took aim at the deadly dehumanization of black lives that plagued the US then as it does today – Taylor Lewis /The Nation
“It’s shocking how relevant this 150 year old denunciation of American racism is today.” Richard Kreitner Read the story
America’s White Working Class is a Dying Breed – Harold Myerson / Wash Post
Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind – Osagie Obasogie
Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this influential metaphor—that being blind to race…
Ten Confederate Memorials That are Somehow Still Standing – Kali Holloway / Salon via Alternet
The Supreme Court Takes on the All-White Jury – Spencer Amdur / New Republic
The Price of Union: The Undefeatable South – Nicholas Lemann / The New Yorker
In Heroin Crisis White Families Seek Gentler War On Drugs – Katharine Q. Seelye / NYT
How Prejudicial Prosecutors Create All-White Juries – Mark Joseph Stern / Slate
Exclusive – “Hands Up Don’t Shoot Our Youth Movement” Documentary – Ralph L. Crowder III
An introduction of Independent Producer/Director Ralph L. Crowder III and his timely documentary film. “Hands Up Don’t Shoot Our Youth Movement” was inspired by the…
Freedom Still Waits – Sherrilyn A. Ifil / The Atlantic
South Carolina Video Reveals the Problem With Zero Tolerance – Brent Staples / NYT
She was guity of being a black girl: The mundane terror of police violence in American Schools – Brittney Cooper / Salon
Breaking Into James Baldwin’s House – Thomas Chatterton Williams / The New Yorker
Diversity is for White People: The Big Lie Behind a Well-Intended Word – Ellen Berrey / Salon
There Were Fewer Black Men In Medical School in 2014 Than In 1978 – Lauren Silverman / NPR
Obama Explains The Problem With ‘All Lives Matter’ – Carimah Townes / Thinkprogress
Black-Owned Media is On The Decline in a Time When Its Needed Most – Olivia / Atlanta Black Star
Forced busing didn’t fail. Desegregation is the best way to improve our schools – George Theoharis / Wash Post
The Disproportionate Risk of Driving While Black – Sharon Lafraniere and Andrew W. Lehren / NYT
Where Everybody Looks Like Me : At the Crossroads of America’s Black Colleges and Culture – Rod Stodgill
A richly reported account of the forces threatening America’s historic black colleges and universities—and how diverse leaders nationwide are struggling to keep these institutions and…
Asian Americans speak out against a decades-old ‘model minority’ myth – Yanan Wang / Wash Post
Racial Formation in the U.S. – Michael Omi and Howard Winant / You Tube
Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original book, Racial Formation in the…
