In medias res

Wow. This is one of the more absurd things I have ever read.
In the interview Wednesday, Ferraro said she had “no clue” why Obama referenced her in the speech [his speech on race relations]. She also expressed surprise the Illinois senator said he had heard his white grandmother utter racist remarks.
“I could not believe that,” [...]

In a NYTimes story, Maragaret B Jones admits to fabricating her book about growing up in gangs in South Central, Love and Consequences. She actually was raised, shocker, in privilege, and wrote the book “based on the experiences of close friends she had “met over the years while working to reduce gang violence in Los [...]

The cover article for the most recent issue of The Nation, “Missing: The ‘Right’ Babies,” hits close to home for me, given my concern over unacknowledged racism in the anti-choice crowd. I’m sure it will have a lot of far-righters’ panties in a bunch. Did I say panties? I meant chastity belts.

It’s a question I’ve been thinking about and discussing with V in our office lately. Angela Davis’s chapter on “Racism, Birth Control and Reproductive Rights” in her book Women, Race and Class talks about the problematic historical relationship between (white) feminists and African American women. Before our times, eugenics were briefly in vogue among some [...]