Where the G.O.P.'s Suicide Caucus Lives
The New Yorker
The members of the suicide caucus live in a different America from the one that most political commentators describe when talking about how the country is transforming. The average suicide-caucus district is seventy-five per cent white, while the average House district is sixty-three per cent white. Latinos make up an average of nine per cent of suicide-district residents, while the over-all average is seventeen per cent. 76 of the members are male. 79 are white.
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Trayvon Martin, Race and Anthropology
Anthropology News
Those of us who research race, racism and inequality must continue to name racism without sugarcoating it; to analyze the ways in which racism is maintained and produced inside and outside of our discipline. Most important, we need to interrogate the new hidden forms of structural racism and deconstruct, in the best sense of the word, the ways in which racism expresses itself in the age of "post-racial color blindness."
President Obama Speaks on Trayvon Martin
President Obama makes a statement about Trayvon Martin and the verdict of the court trial that followed the Florida teenager's death.
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