Timothy J. Lensmire (Minnesota): Laughing White Men. Terry L. Besser (Iowa State): A Test of Nordic Exceptionalism: The Association of Ethnic Heritage and Religion with Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Small U.S. Towns. A review of Black Fire: One Hundred Years of African American Pentecostalism by Estrelda Y. Alexander. How race shaped American party politics: It's a given that the GOP attracts more whites and the Democrats attract more blacks, but it wasn't always so. A review of The Machinery of Whiteness: Studies in the Structure of Racialization by Steve Martinot. Teaching privilege to the privileged: Letta Page on “whiteness studies”. Belmont and Fishtown: An excerpt from Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 by Charles Murray (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more). Racists vs. Imperialists: Tim Wise contends that history matters in his new book, Dear White America. A review of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times by James Tracy and Amy Sonnie. In a study released recently, two Manhattan Institute researchers heralded the “end of the segregated century” (and more).
