Links tagged with “racism”
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The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic
This was good. More about the case for having a discussion about the case for reparations. It was more affecting to me than, say, ‘Twelve Years a Slave’, which was too easily put in the “that’s just history” or “one person’s experience” buckets.
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Top Ten differences between White Terrorists and Others | Informed Comment
Brilliant. One for the asymmetry file. (via Daring Fireball)
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Escape into Whiteness by Brent Staples | The New York Review of Books
Some of the details of 19th and early 20th century courts etc deciding whether specific mixed-race individuals count as white or coloured are bizarre, as if part of some kind of epic theatre piece.