African American males are, as Loevy writes, "just 6 percent of the country's population but nearly 40 percent of those murdered." It's been clear for a while now that our nation's
race problem is complicated in many ways by our nation's policing; events over the last few years have brought these issues to the fore many times over.
Blatter's words about shaking hands after a match were ill chosen but in his bumbling way he was bringing attention to another side to the
race problem.
Blatter, speaking to CNN, said when asked whether football has a
race problem: "I would deny it.
Du Bois, "is a place which the world instinctively associates with tobacco," and he argued in his 1912 essay, "The Upbuilding of Black Durham: The Success of the Negroes and their Value to a Tolerant and Helpful Southern City," a place that had a "solution" to its "
race problem." Leslie Brown's masterful new work revisits the city and interrogates both Du Bois' assertions and the widely held vision of Durham as "the Capital of the Black Middle Class" (p.240).
Now, about a year after Obama's election, optimism that a solution to the country's
race problem will eventually be worked out has settled back down to 56%.
Henry Louis Gates, professor of African-American Studies at Harvard University again shined a light on our
race problem.
Apparently rejecting the individualist ethic as a solution to the
race problem in the modern world, Luhrmann calls into question those sentimental notions about the value of love and human connection in overcoming social boundaries that seem to be fundamental to the reception of Romeo and Juliet since at least the eighteenth century.
I'm not suggesting that the
race problem is over at all.
Hardy chides a multiculturalism movement in America by which "people-of-notable-color" are placed as tokens in films to signal that we have finally overcome our
race problem.
George wrote The Biology of the
Race Problem and over 45,000 copies were paid for and distributed to selected recipients by Draper.
Among specific discussions are a techno-ethical approach to the
race problem in anthropology, healthcare ethics in the information age, community education in new HIV prevention technologies research, walking the information overload tightrope, and electronic business offshore outsourcing.