Vol. 45 No. 1-2, January - January 2013
Index
- Correction.
- Fuel to the fire.
- What drinking problem?
- Tilting at windmills.
- Introduction: race, history, and Obama's second term.
- Thenceforward and forever free, mostly: deserving of neither blanket condemnation nor blind exaltation, Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was a brave compromise.
- Dixie's enemy within: how the ideology of white supremacy undermined the south's own war effort.
- Lincoln: no hero to native Americans.
- Deconstructing reconstruction: the tumultuous decade that followed the civil war failed to enshrine black voting and civil rights, and instead paved the way for more than a century of entrenched racial injustice.
- Rumors of land: the unfulfilled dream of "forty acres and a mule.".
- America's twentieth-century slavery: the horrifying, little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of blacks worked in brutal bondage right up until World War II.
- A second emancipation: one hundred years after Lincoln signed the proclamation, Martin Luther King Jr. tried unsuccessfully to get president John F. Kennedy to issue a second one. that failure changed the course of history.
- Emmett and Trayvon: how racial prejudice in America has changed in the last sixty years.
- Is inequality shortening your life span? white, black, or brown, we'd all live longer in a more equal, less status-driven society.
- To live longer, move to a new zip code.
- Color-blind medicine?
- A house divided: why do middle-class blacks have far less wealth than whites at the same income level? the answer is in real estate and history.
- The American dream, redeemed: how to make homeownership a safe bet for minority borrowers.
- Prison's dilemma: even if every convict were rightly sentenced, America's vast, racially skewed incarceration system would still be morally indefensible.
- A new role for parole: African Americans suffer from high rates of incarceration and crime. here's how to drastically reduce both.
- The new white Negro: what it means that family breakdown is now biracial.
- The next affirmative action: want to help minority college students? make the entire higher education system more accountable.
- Wholesome Millennials--black, brown, and white.
- Lincoln died for our sins: the greatest impediment to achieving racial equality is the narcotic belief that we already have.
- Red, white, and black: three generations of African American politicians.
- A dedicated life: Shirley Sherrod's ongoing battle for racial cooperation in Georgia.
- A great president for blacks? If you think Obama hasn't delivered for African Americans, take a closer look at his record.
- Reflections on race in America.
- An arranged marriage: why Eisenhower distrusted, but needed, Nixon.
- COIN operated: in Iraq and Afghanistan, General David Petraeus applied all the lessons learned in Vietnam-except for the one that mattered most.
- James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot: A Soldier's Story.
- Scoop: The Evolution of a Southern Reporter.
- Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement.
- We Shall Not Be Moved: The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired.
- Class no longer dismissed: why some conservatives are warming to socioeconomic school integration.
- Did Hurricane Sandy save Obamacare? How disaster relief justifies the welfare state.