• economics
• race

From The Financial Times:

Speaking in Brasília at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, [Brazil's President] Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: "This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and now demonstrate that they know nothing."

• Michael Faris's blog
• 1 comment
• Read more

• homology
• race

I've read two pieces recently that situate current discussions of race in a long line of "the same conversation":

1) Ta-Nehisi Coates's "'This is How we Lost to the White Man'" in The Atlantic is a discussion of Bill Cosby's "black conservatism.

2) Garry Wills's "Two Speeches on Race" in The New York Review of Books is a comparison of Obama's speech on race/racism/Jeremiah Wright to Lincoln's Cooper Union address.

• Jim Brown's blog
• Login or register to post comments
• Read more

• and ethnicity
• race
• rhetoric

Richard Kahlenberg has a splendid article in this week's Chronicle on the poisonous effects of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school controversy in 1968. I suspect most readers younger than I have never heard of it, but it helped define the internal battles in American liberalism for the last forty years.

• Jim Aune's blog
• Login or register to post comments

• campaign rhetoric 2008
• gender
• race

• Jim Brown's blog
• 1 comment

• race
• sports

So, when I read this headline - NFL looking into Rolle comment that official called him 'boy' - I figured we were in for a humdinger of a week in the NFL. Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle claims that an official, Phil McKinnely called him "boy" during the Ravens Monday night game against the Patriots. I was sprinting to tune my radio to sports talk. But then I read this sentence:

• Jim Brown's blog
• 1 comment
• Read more