Talking About Race

Talking About RaceWhat is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race? Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience? Do you warn your children about how people might react to them; find store staff following or watching you; get stopped by the police for no reason? The students of color in your classroom experience discrimination every day, in small and large ways. They dont often see

certain groups of black immigrants have better outcomes than native-born black Americans—such as lower unemployment rates and higher rates of homeownership—in part because they immigrated at a time of expanding opportunities for minorities and women in general

but it’s not always easy to find books with the kinds of morals and values we want to instill in our children

Throughout Maya Angelou's life

the history of Africans in Latin America has been complex

a free woman of color who rose from slavery to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful landowners in the colonial West Indies

Legacies of Race offers the first examination of Brazilian public opinion to understand racial identities

her father

Once a savage always a savage

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eclectic stories in this collection are bound by the threads of desire in its many forms

Honey has a long list of exes in her life

female ambition