March 22, 2012
—Kidada E. Williams Many Americans cannot understand why so many African Americans and their allies have rallied around the family of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old killed by a white Hispanic… READ MORE
February 29, 2012
by Melanie Heath, author of One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America (forthcoming from NYU Press in April) There is not much new in Charles Murray’s recent book,… READ MORE
February 3, 2012
With one of the harshest anti-immigrant laws on the books, Arizona recently targeted Latino schoolchildren and the books teachers use to inform them about Latino history and culture. Last month, the Tucson Unified… READ MORE
August 24, 2009
Emily Rosenbaum, author of The Housing Divide: How Generations of Immigrants Fare in New York’s Housing Market, answered readers’ questions all last week at nytimes.com: Q: Your book suggests that… READ MORE
June 30, 2009
Lázaro Lima, author of The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory, offers a look at the particular type of racism on the rise with Judge Sonia… READ MORE
March 26, 2009
A New York Times article exploring what second-generation immigrants know and don’t know about their families’ pasts features Nancy Foner, editor of Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America (NYU Press,… READ MORE
January 7, 2009
Two new populist podcasts for your aural enjoyment. Against the Grain, Tuesday January 6th 2009: Download program audio (mp3, 48.47 Mbytes) How many incompetently represented people get convicted, or even… READ MORE
January 6, 2009
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the publication of Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African American Women’s Contemporary Activism, edited by Kimberly Springer. Prof. Springer was kind enough to offer… READ MORE