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Brick City, the Sundance Channel documentary on Newark, New Jersey and its Mayor, Cory Booker, aired last week. What have we learned?
New Documentary on Newark, New Jersey, and Mayor Cory Booker Offers Real Talk on Cities -
If we are limited to an endless debate over whether tea partiers have racist hearts, then we miss the bigger question of whether they seek to build a racist society.
Look at the Outcomes, Not the Motives to Find Racism -
How quick are you to think race is behind daily insults?
QUIZ: Not Everything Is About Race. Yes, It Is! -
Using Mad Men Yourself, Liza muses about what Oprah looks like in a world optimized for not just white people but icons.
What does Oprah look like in the world of Mad men -
What Jimmy Carter and a pivotal scene from “Rosewood” have to say about President Obama and America’s increasingly hostile race relations.
Jimmy Carter, a Scene From Rosewood and America's Race Relations -
I'm convinced that children get their attitudes about race from their parents, and there is nothing to be done about it.
Kids Are Prejudice, Too -
Mad Men is better off taking a smaller cut at race issues and really nailing the way they portray black characters, as opposed to weaving in a major racial theme and risking either overdoing or underdoing the nuance.
Mad Men's Roger Performs in Blackface -
Considering the goings on in the world, this is just kinda funny...
A Microsoft Ad Pulls the Old Switcheroo with Black and White Guy -
It’s more important for Mad Men to get it right on race in those few instances that it does take on racial issues, than it is to have racial tension be a major theme in the show’s overall arc.
Mad Men and Race -
Mad Men takes on a number of cultural controversies, yet race is treated with politeness, distance, restraint, and a heavy dose of sentimentality. For a show that takes place in the early ’60s, this is a glaring omission.
Will 'Mad Men' Season Three Finally Talk About Race?
