Stories by Melissa Harris-Lacewell
Melissa Harris-Lacewell, an associate professor of politics and African-American studies at Princeton University, is completing her latest book, Sister Citizen: A Text for Colored Girls Who've Considered Politics When Being Strong Isn't Enough.
Posted on Jun 11, 2010, Source: The Nation
Why conservatives are shuddering with apocalyptic anxiety about generational trends.
Posted on May 18, 2010, Source: The Nation
When Obama marked his Census form, he offered another lesson in what has been an intensive if unintentional seminar on the social construction of race
Posted on Apr 19, 2010, Source: The Nation
Those who yearn for a postracial America hoped Obama had transcended blackness, but the real threat he poses to the American racial order is that he disrupts whiteness.
Posted on Mar 23, 2010, Source: The Nation
Attacks on black and gay members of Congress over healthcare have prompted comparisons to the civil rights movement. In fact, we need to move the historical lens further back.
Posted on Jan 18, 2010, Source: The Nation
Martin Luther King Jr. was a strategic political leader. He was a realist whose choices were often upsetting and unpalatable to those on his left -- much like Obama.
Posted on Jan 12, 2010, Source: The Nation
If we weeded out every lawmaker guilty of racial insensitivity, Congress would be empty. A far bigger problem is the structures of inequality reflected in gaffes like Reid's.
Posted on Nov 30, 2009, Source: The Nation
With Michelle Obama in the White House, I expected a resurgence of the Claire Huxtable stereotype. Instead, hideous depictions of abusive, irresponsible black moms are everywhere.
Posted on Oct 19, 2009, Source: The Nation
We must do more than simply re-integrate new groups into an old system. We need to seriously consider our assumptions about the system itself.
Posted on Sep 24, 2009, Source: The Nation
Racism is not the the sole domain of Republicans, Conservatives or Southerners. Being liberal does not give you a free pass on racial politics.
Posted on Jul 22, 2009, Source: TheNation.com
In a moment of overzealous policing, an officer in Cambridge handcuffed and detain a living embodiment of post-racial possibility.
