I've been a fan of Obama for a while now, so I figured I ought to at least read some of Jeremiah Wright's preaching and see what all the fuss is about. Here's a link to his recent speech at the Washington Press Club ( Read more... )

http://www.slate.com/id/2183053/

A recent example was carried out by economists Sendhil Mullainathan and Marianne Bertrand. They generated about 5,000 fake job applications and used a computer to add, at random, distinctively black or white names. The employers who received the ( Read more... )

I posted a couple entries on genetics and race a few weeks back. I just came across a cautionary note ( Read more... )

"A torrent of government investment has improved the buraku* so they are no longer slums. Yet average income for buraku families is still only about 60 percent of the national average, and social problems are proving to be far more persistent than discrimination. Buraku leaders acknowledge that alcoholism is a disproportionate problem in their ( Read more... )

Kahlenberg suggests using integration by income levels as a substitute for the racially-based school-choice policies recently struck down by the Supreme Court. This makes considerable sense to me.

http://www.slate.com/id/2169443