A review of Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma by Michael Tonry. A review of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. An interview with Ellis Coase, author of The End of Anger: A New Generation's Take on Race and Rage. An article on Matt Drudge's disgusting race war awareness campaign (and more). A new study says whites think discrimination against them is a bigger problem than anti-black bias. Will white people go to the National Black Museum? The Smithsonian's new museum hasn't integrated Washington, D.C.'s whitest address yet, and it's already dodging spitballs from Congress. Five myths about the 10 most segregated metro areas. Some workplaces are far more racially diverse than they were decades ago, but striking disparities still exist. Marvin McAllister, author of Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance, on the casting of black actor Idris Elba in the role of a Norse god in the film Thor. Why whites avoid movies with black actors: White audiences tend to stay away from movies featuring minorities due to the assumption that the film “wasn’t made for me”. Is biracial a neutral term or does it embrace "whiteness as an ideal"? Could more black-white interracial marriages cure inequality? Nitasha Sharna is doing away with the notion that minorities are solely the victims of white supremacy — they can also be the perpetrators. We face all sorts of tensions among racial, ethnic and religious groups, but the deepest social fault line in the nation is between two halves of white America. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being: How changing US demographics will upend white people’s sense of identity, history and what it means for the rest of us. Why white men should refuse to be on panels of all white men.
