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The changing American racial and ethnic order

Earl M. Maltz (Rutgers): Moving Beyond Race: The Joint Committee on Reconstruction and the Drafting of the Fourteenth Amendment. Joni Hersch and Jennifer Bennett Shinall (Vanderbilt): Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Julia H (Bucharest): “The Cosby Show” and the Problem of Representation of the Black Middle Class Family from a Social Psychological Perspective. Vesla M. Weaver (Virginia) and Jennifer L. Hochschild (Harvard): Class and Group: Political Implications of the Changing American Racial and Ethnic Order. Jennifer L. Hochschild and Maya Sen (Harvard): Americans’ Attitudes on Racial or Genetic Inheritance: Which is More Predictive? Roderick Graham (Old Dominion): More Than Cultural Racists: A Typology of Racial Ideologies in the United States. Jim Sleeper on our real white male problem: Why Fox News defeats Bruce Springsteen and liberal moralizing every time. Dan Keating on why whites don’t understand black segregation. White America’s ignorant bliss: Tim Wise on why so many “good” white people are completely oblivious. White anxiety and the futility of black hope: George Yancy interviews Shannon Sullivan, author of Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism. Jeff Chang on Who We Be: The Colorization of America and why we haven't had a real national conversation about race. What matters most to Latino voters? It's not always immigration reform: Juan David Romero interviews Gary Segura, co-author Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation. People identifying as “white and black” are the future of America: William H. Frey on the major demographic shift that's upending how we think about race; and on five charts that show why a post-white America is already here: If you're under 18, the future is now.