“Wimpy White Boy Syndrome’: How Racial Bias Creeps Into Neonatal Care”

“Stanford University School of Medicine researchers analyzed more than 18,600 hospital records for California-born babies with a very low birth weight (3.3 pounds or less). Intended to measure performance and…

“What is white culture, exactly? Here’s what the stats say”

“You don’t notice normalcy; you see the deviations from it. So the word “white” could always be hopped over as an adjective.

Now, “white” still feels like an absence: an absence of color, an absence of…

“White People Are Noticing Something New: Their Own Whiteness”

“So long as we aren’t hanging out with white nationalists, marrying into a family of color or chuckling over jokes about our dancing, we have endless opportunities to avoid thinking much about our own race. We generally…

“Black Kids Don’t Want to Read About Harriet Tubman All the Time”

“The “diverse” books making it to the shelves aren’t very diverse at all. With few exceptions, the same stories are being told again and again, fed to children like some bowl of dry, lumpy oatmeal with just a sprinkle…

“What happened to Chicago’s Japanese neighborhood?”

“The answer to Irene’s question is directly tied to a Chicago immigrant experience like no other. Japanese-Americans didn’t end up in Chicago of their own accord: The U.S. government forcibly resettled 20,000 of them to the city from World…

“Black Women Deserve Real Love, Too”

“To some, Black women are not afforded the luxury of finding a better relationship. Black women are not worthy of magical love stories. Successful love stories for Black women are marked solely by our ability to endure suffering and continue to stand with partners…

“White people are still raised to be racially illiterate. If we don’t recognize the system, our inaction will uphold it.”

“Historical narratives of racial exceptionality also leave us unprepared to address current conditions. For example, they…

“When Southern Newspapers Justified Lynching”

“Historians have paid scant attention to the role that the white Southern press played in the racial terrorism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which saw thousands of African-Americans hanged, burned, drowned or beaten to death by white…

“‘Diversity of Thought’ Is Just a Euphemism for ‘White Supremacy’”

“Professors who teach contrived versions of history by saying that the Civil War was about states’ rights and not slavery or white supremacy are not diverse thinkers. They are either liars or uneducated on the…

“Thomas Pynchon Shows Us How White Writers Can Avoid Appropriation”

“You learn about the way the Germans tortured the Hereros, the way they killed them — and you learn it from the point of view of a German character, Kurt Mondaugen. This deliberate choice is part of Pynchon’s…