When Does a Black Join the Middle Class?
Some controversial statistics were released last year by the U.S. Bureau of the Census purporting to show that, by a narrow margin, the majority of Afro-Americans are now middle-income. My […]
What These Children Are Like
I assume you all know that I really have no business attending this sort of conference. I have no technical terminology and no knowledge of an academic discipline. This isn’t […]
What America Would Be Like Without Blacks
Ellison, Ralph. “What America Would Be Like Without Blacks.” Time, April 06, 1970. https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,943970,00.html . THE fantasy of an America free of blacks is at least as old as the […]
Haverford Statement
In spite of all the writing I do, and for all of the lectures I give each year, there are many matters which I won’t write about, nor, except with […]
An American Dilemma: A Review
Ellison, Ralph. “An American Dilemma: A Review.” In Shadow and Act, 303-317. New York: Random House, 1964. Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma is not an easy book for an American […]