How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
racism
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
A precise, devastating portrayal of white wokeness
Kiley Reid’s novel about race, class, and good intentions that miss the point
Working through collective sin
Susan Neiman considers how Americans might learn from Germany.
Examining whiteness through “reparative writing”
Jess Row asks what happens when alienation turns to rage.
How did American racism get to this point?
Joel Goza explores America’s addiction to racism and racialized poverty.
Hope, oppression, and Ta-Nehisi Coates
Can Christian hope survive the onslaught against black life?
A school of death
Colson Whitehead dramatizes a horrifying piece of historical reality.
Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
No full reparation for slavery can ever be made. We should try anyway.
What racism is—and how to organize against it
People already engaged in conversations about racial justice may find Ibram Kendi's analysis surprising.
A black pastor writes to the white church about its complicity in oppression
Lenny Duncan’s letter is full of hope and fury, love and lament—like Paul’s epistles.
“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s short stories reveal the insanity and violence of our society
Evoking the murders of unarmed black men, this collection is meant to appall us.