Race identity

After the Fires

By Calvin Baker,

From A More Perfect Reunion, which was published in June by Bold Type Books. Even before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, many were debating the utility of pacifist resistance.…

Autobiography of an Ex-Black Man

By Emily Bernard,

Thomas Chatterton Williams loses his race

Breeds of America

By William Melvin Kelley,

Coming of age and coming of race

Toward an end of blackness

By Jim Sleeper,

An argument for the surrender of race consciousness

Dreaming of a Black Christmas

By Gerald Lyn Early,

Kwanzaa bestows the gifts of therapy

Our Next Race Question

Edited by Earl Shorris,

The uneasiness between blacks and Latinos

Leaving the folk

By Phillip Richards,

The journey out of a Cleveland childhood

No more Mr. White Guy

By Harper’s Staff,

Their Malcolm, my problem

By Gerald Lyn Early,

On the abuses of Afrocentrism and black anger

Black like . . . Shirley Temple?

By Gerald Lyn Early,

Ghettoized by black unity

By Shelby Steele,

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After the Fires

Autobiography of an Ex-Black Man

Breeds of America

Toward an end of blackness

Dreaming of a Black Christmas

Our Next Race Question

Leaving the folk

No more Mr. White Guy

Their Malcolm, my problem

Black like . . . Shirley Temple?

Ghettoized by black unity

May 1990