Tag: Racial

When someone says they’re anti-DEI, not enough pressure is put on them to explain what the alternative looks like to express their vision for our society. And that’s because if they did spill the beans, their vision would likely be reminiscent of a shameful era in our country’...

On February 23, Ahmaud Arbery was jogging in a Georgia neighborhood when he was shot and killed by a white man. At the time, amid the rising panic of the pandemic, few paid attention; it took 74 days and a viral video for the killer to be arrested and charged with the crime. Arbery’s death ...

I’m posting this essay, which I wrote right after the 2016 election results, because I’ve begun to speak more openly about how constrained I was in covering racial resentment and white nationalism during my time at FiveThirtyEight. On October 2, 2015, I wrote a very factual and, in my mi...

For as long as I have been White (oh wait), I have done this thing called racial gaslighting and it obviously isn’t good. You have done it, too. In fact, you’re probably doing it right now (“Are you SURE I’ve gaslighted before? Where is your PROOF?”). The problem is tha...

As a Black woman married to a White woman, I experience the complex dynamics of race and privilege in our relationship. My wife enjoys the safety and invisibility of whiteness, while I cannot escape the vulnerability of my Blackness in our racist society. This became starkly evident when we visited ...

In the long and painful struggle for racial justice, there’s a narrative that’s been persistently sold to us: the idea that true equality can only be achieved when the oppressed and oppressors join hands and work together. It’s a comforting thought, the idea of unity and collective...

Interpersonal Diversity was more likely to decrease than increase during quarantine, but it mostly remained the same. Figure 1 Most students indicated that the interpersonal diversity in their lives remained the same during #Quarantine. Among those indicating a change, more indicated a decline...

The origins of passing stretch back to our country’s founding. For some Black people, crossing the color line meant a chance to improve their social status, economic opportunity, and marital prospects. Some scholars claim passing is no longer a phenomenon because of greater...