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Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse
Once again, the nation’s most prestigious center of learning would play a pivotal role in race theory.
Nell Irvin Painter • The History of White People
If you think, mistakenly, that American racism can be surmounted by integration, by people knowing each other, even by loving each other, the history of the American South must teach otherwise. There is no resolution to unjust relations without a structural and ethical change.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
Princeton is very polite. And it elicits rage. Until 2020 the policy school was named after avowed racist, and former president of both the university and the United States, Woodrow Wilson. The students who protested the name of the school in the late 2010s called themselves the Black Justice League. The “BJL” posted Wilson’s racist words around ca
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Since 1980, when the victims’ rights movement took off, higher-education spending in California has decreased by 13 percent, while investment in prisons has grown 436 percent; the state now spends far more money on prisons than it does on colleges and universities.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
