Essay Archive 1994-2008 (in descending order)

Adding Insult to Injury: Racism and the Calculus of Comparative Suffering (6/20/08)

Your Whiteness is Showing: An Open Letter to Certain White Women Who Are Threatening to Withhold Support From Barack Obama in November (6/8/08)

The Media, Election '08, and the Trouble With White-Blindness (6/3/08)

The Tyranny of Not-So-Independent Variables: Racism, Sexism and the Deceptive Social Science of the Far Right (5/26/08)

Farrakhan is not the Problem: The Arrogance and Absurdity of America's Racial Litmus Test (5/25/08)

Testosterone is not to Blame: Why Hillary Clinton's Defeat Has Nothing to Do With Sexism (5/17/08)

They Shoot Black Men, Don't They? Sean Bell and the Internal (and Eternal) Logic of Racism (5/3/08)

(Proto)Typical White Denial: Reflections on Racism and Uncomfortable Truths (4/9/08)

Of National Lies and Racial Amnesia: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and the Audacity of Truth (3/18/08)

Another Batch of White Whine: Obama, Black Voters and the Myth of Reverse Racism (3/10/08)

Uh-Obama: Racism, White Voters and the Myth of Color-Blindness (3/08/08)

When Blacks Attack: Reflections on White Victimology and the Ironies of Institutional Racism (1/28/08)

Complicity Has Its Cost: An Open Letter to Mayor Murphy McMillin of Jena, Louisiana (10/8/07)

Assimilation Blues: Immigration and the Dysfunctions of the Dominant Culture (8/17/07)

Personal Responsibility for Thee But Not for Me: Blame Shifting and Buck-Passing, Conservative Style (8/9/07)

Facts? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Facts: Racism, White Anxiety and the Projection of Personal Inadequacy (8/7/07)

Majoring in Minstrelsy: White Students, Blackface and the Failure of Mainstream Multiculturalism (6/22/07)

Home Runs, Heroes and Hypocrisy: Performance Enhancement in Black and White (6/13/07)

On the Making of Undeserving Martyrs: Fact and Fiction in the Duke Lacrosse Scandal (5/27/07)

On White Pride and Other Delusions: Reflections on the Rage of the Uninformed (5/23/07)

Of Bigots and Broken Records: Reflections on the Psycho-Pathology of Racist Thinking (5/19/07)

Passing the Buck and Missing the Point: Don Imus, White Denial and Racism in America (4/15/07)

A Particularly Cheap White Whine: Racism, Scholarships and the Manufacturing of White Victimhood (12/2/06)

Rationalizing the Irrational: Racism and the Fallacy of Personal Experience (7/31/06)

The Oprah Effect: Black Success, White Denial and the Reality of Racism (7/28/06)

"Eracing" Katrina: Historical Revisionism and the Denial of the Obvious (7/25/06)

Little Man With a Gun in His Hand: An Open Letter to Sheriff Jack Strain, of St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana (7/13/06)

Sins of Omission: Race, Media and the Perpetuation of Stereotypes (7/7/06)

Progress and the Eye of the Beholder: Reflections on Race, Class and Truth (7/6/06)

Of Immigrants and "Real" Amurkans: Reflections on the Rage of the Ridiculous (5/30/06)

What Kind of Card is Race? The Absurdity (and Consistency) of White Denial (4/24/06)

Paleness as Pathology: The Future of Racism and Anti-Racism (May 2006)

Rebels Without a Clue, Revisited: Racism, Neo-Confederacy and the Raising of Historical Illiterates (2/3/06)

Of Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Indignation: Reflections on the Manufacturing of "Reverse" Racism (1/28/06)

Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus - Part Two: Bigots' Personal Growth Shouldn't Come at Expense of Others (1/5/06)

Racism, Free Speech and the College Campus (12/31/05)

Framing the Poor: Katrina, Conservative Myth-Making and the Media (10/27/05)

Rethinking Superiority: Reflections on Whiteness and the Cult of "Progress" (9/15/05)

No, Not Everyone Felt That Way: Racism and the History We Learn (and Don't) (9/9/05)

Disasters, Natural and Otherwise (9/2/05)

A God With Whom I am Not Familiar (9/2/05)

Animal Whites: PETA and the Politics of Putting Things in Perspective (8/13/05)

Darken Up, Asshole: Reflections on Indian Mascots and White Rage (8/10/05)

Faith of the Faithless: The Real Meaning of "Intelligent Design" (8/3/05)

The Tyranny of Common Sense: Examining the Faulty Logic of "Terrorist" Profiling (8/2/05)

Don't Know Much About (Black)History: School Curricula and the Myth of a Common Narrative (7/19/05)

Discover the Nutwork: David Horowitz and the Politics of Ad Hominem Distortion (6/15/05)

Excuses, Excuses: How the Right Rationalizes Racial Inequality (Part Three: Housing) (6/2/05)

A Double Standard Worth Keeping: Race and the Differential Power of the N-Word (5/25/05)

Excuses, Excuses: How the Right Rationalizes Racial Inequality (Part Two: Criminal Justice) (5/19/05)

Excuses, Excuses: How the Right Rationalizes Racial Inequality (Part One: Wages and Labor Markets) (5/5/05)

Playing Our Race Card: Reflections on "Reverse Discrimination" (4/19/05)

What's the Matter With White Folks? Racial Privilege, Electoral Politics and the Limits of Class Populism (Spring 2005)

Reflections on Empire and Uppity Indians (2/9/05)

(With Molly Secours) Is Personal Responsibility a One-Way Street? (2/9/05)

Race to Our Credit: Denial, Privilege and Life as a Majority (1/6/05)

No Such Place as Safe: The Trouble With White Anti-Racism (7/23/04)

Working for the Man Every Night and Day: Black Conservatives and the Politics of Self-Abuse (7/15/04)

Situational Ethics, Conservative Style (7/5/04)

Personal Responsibility is a Two-Way Street: Bill Cosby and the Pathology of Passing the Buck (6/24/04)

My Life as a Resident Alien: Reflections on Reagan and Feeling Good About America (6/13/04)

Reagan, Race and Rememberance: Reflections on the American Divide (6/10/04)

The Same, Only Different: Reflections on the Myth of American Exceptionalism (5/13/04)

White Whine: Reflections on the Brain-Rotting Properties of Privilege (4/20/04)

A Quite Deliberate Failure: Reflections on the Politics of Crime (4/1/04)

Of Broken Clocks and Conservatives: Study Debunks Racial (But Feeds Youth) Stereotypes (3/2/04)

Unnatural Selection: Reflections on the Normalizing of Racism (1/21/04)

Sex Across the Color Line: Marcus Dixon, Emmett Till and the New/Old South (1/1/04)

Profit and Loss: The Ups and Downs of White Privilege (January 2004)

Content of Whose Character? Race, College Admissions and The Fallacy of Merit (12/19/03)

It's the Racism Stupid: Bias, Not Affirmative Action Stigmatizes People of Color (12/7/03)

Denial, Evasion Won't Solve Racism (11/10/03)

Anywhere but Here: Examining the Crimes of Thee But Not of Me (11/8/03)

Persecuting the Truth: Claims of Christian Victimization Ring Hollow (11/8/03)

Ghettos are Not a Game (Part Three): The Far-From-Harmless Consequences of Racial Stereotypes (11/6/03)

Ghettos are Not a Game (Part Two): Racism and the Perpetuation of the Urban Poor (10/23/03)

Ghettos are Not a Game (Part One): Making Money off the Misery of Others (10/9/03)

Standards Without Substance: Saying No to Minimum Test Scores for College Admissions (10/8/03)

Collateral Damage: Poor Whites and the Unintended Consequences of Racial Privilege (10/5/03)

The Other Race Card: Rush Limbaugh and the Politics of White Resentment (10/3/03)

Defending the Unwelcome Stranger: The Truth About Immigration (9/26/03)

Overclass Blues: Class, Race and the Ironies of Privilege (9/12/03)

When Paranoia Meets Prejudice: Debunking the Notion of a Jewish Conspiracy (8/19/03)

Resurrecting Mandingo: Black Sexuality in the White Imagination (8/6/03)

God Responds to W: Chatting With the Almighty About Bush (7/11/03)

No One is Innocent: Reflections on the Legacy of White Supremacy (7/8/03)

Preferring Our Violence Wholesale: Riots and Destruction in Black and White (6/30/03)

Coloring Crime: Race, Violence and Media Manipulation (6/1/03)

Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat: The Supreme Court and the Future of Affirmative Action (6/23/03)

The Mother of all Racial Preferences: Reflections on Affirmative Action for White Folks (5/24/03)

Cleaning up the Funk: Commencement Speech at Grinnell College, 2003 (5/20/03)

Inventing Jayson Blair: Reflections on White Privilege and Hypocrisy (5/19/03)

Parable of the Bad Samaritan: Reflections on War and Collateral Damage Control (4/16/03)

Liberation or Libation? Media Images, State Propaganda and "Happy Iraqis" (4/3/03)

So This is What War Looks Like: Hubris Meets Reality in the Desert (4/3/03)

Of Lies, Liberation and American Self-Delusion (3/27/03)

The Moral Calculus of Killing: Precision Bombing and the American Definition of Innocence (3/24/03)

We are All Collateral Damage Now: Reflections on War as Emotional Botox (3/22/03)

No Ribbons, No Flags, No Fireworks: An Open Letter to Pro-War Americans (3/21/03)

Fear, Loathing and Laura Bush: Reflections on the Functions of Mass Panic (3/7/03)

States are People Too? Self Determination and Israel's "Right" to Exist (2/14/03)

Sex, Lies and Stereotypes: Examining White Lies About Black Americans (2/12/03)

Misreading the Dream: Colorblindness and the Distortion of Martin Luther King Jr. (1/21/03)

Fraud Fit for a King: Israel, Zionism and the Misuse of MLK (1/21/03)

Racism, Free Markets and Libertarian Deceit: The Problem of Whiteness as Property (1/15/03)

Making Nice With Racists: David Horowitz and the Soft-Pedaling of White Supremacy (12/16/02)

Selling Sloppy Statistics: "Reverse Discrimination" and the Perpetuation of Right-Wing Fraud (12/19/02)

Not-So-Little White Lies: Education and the Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism (11/28/02)

Sniping Common Sense: Racial Profiling, Religious Bigotry and the DC Shootings (10/28/02)

Pride and Prejudice: Tony Soprano, Christopher Columbus and the Irony of Ethnic Stereotypes (10/17/02)

Con-fusion Ethic: How Whites Use Asians to Further Anti-Black Racism (10/7/02)

Affirmative Inaction: Racial Privilege and the War on Drugs (8/24/02)

Failing the Test of Fairness: Institutional Racism and the SAT (8/15/02)

Honky Wanna Cracker? A Look at the Myth of "Reverse Racism" (6/30/02)

Brilliance Without Passion: Whiteness Scholarship and the Struggle Against Racism (Fall 2002)

Defining Democracy Down: Israeli Repression and the Language of Liars (5/16/02)

Taliban Jews: Some Extremists are More Equal Than Others (5/11/02)

Anti-Semitism, Real and Imagined: Judaism, Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine (5/2/02)

Racial Profiling and Its Apologists (March 2002)

Riots of Our Own (or, The Invisible Whiteness of the Olympic Beer Riot) (2/25/02)

A Dream Distorted: Reflections on the Hijacking of Martin Luther King Jr. (2/15/02)

Selling the Police: Reflections on Heroism and Hype (2/6/02)

Rationalizing Racism: Panic and Profiling After 9/11 (1/16/02)

Selective Indignation: Bin Laden's Inhumanity, and Ours (12/20/01)

Playing the World War Two Card: Nostalgia and the Crusade Against Terrorism (12/16/01)

Saying No is a Start: The Validity of Anti-War Criticism (11/20/01)

Consistently Inconsistent: Rhetoric Meets Reality in the War on Terror (11/15/01)

Holding Terrorists Accountable? It Depends on the Color and the Cause (11/4/01)

Who's Being Naive? War-Time "Realism" Through the Looking Glass (10/28/01)

Patriotism as Pathology (10/23/01)

Some Folks Never Felt Safe: The Truth About National Unity (10/8/01)

Enemies Foreign and Domestic: Racism, Terrorism and American War-Mongering (9/17/01)

To My Baby Girl, After the Terror (9/13/01)

Nationalism of Fools: Reflections on Zionism from a Dissident Jew (9/5/01)

Another Round of White Denial: Drugs, Race and Reality in the 'Burbs (8/23/01)

Thin Blue Lies: Police and the Art of Propaganda (8/3/01)

See No Evil: Perception and Reality in Black and White (8/2/01)

Fear and Loathing in Suburbia: Crime and the Irrationality of White Racism (7/9/01)

Of Danger and Double Standards: Police, Prison and Preferential Treatment (5/22/01)

Breaking the Cycle of White Dependence: A Modest Call for Majority Self-Help (5/19/01)

Fifteen Dead in Ohio: The Black and the Blue in Cincinnati (4/17/01)

School Shootings and White Denial (3/6/01)

Motive and Opportunity: The Difference Between White and "Other" Racism (2/12/01)

The Truth is Rarely Pleasant: Racism, White Denial and Some Thoughts on Being "Divisive" (1/18/01)

Dreaming of a Non-White Christmas: Santa, Jesus and the Symbolism of Racial Supremacy (12/21/00)

Of Monsters and Vampires: People who Kill People and the People Who Kill Them (12/4/00)

Racism, White Liberals and the Limits of Tolerance (12/4/00)

No More Mister Fall Guy: Why Ralph Nader is Not To Blame for President Bush (11/9/00)

Getting Serious About White Deviance: An Open Letter to the Pioneer Fund (11/3/00)

Freeh's Blind Mice: A Critical Look at Tolerance Training, FBI Style (9/24/00)

Gore-Vey! Joe Lieberman, Jewish Mobility and the Politics of Race in America (8/29/00)

Bill of Whites: Historical Memory Through the Racial Looking Glass (7/24/00)

Membership Has its Privileges: Acknowledging and Challenging the Benefits of Whiteness (6/22/00)

Rebels Without a Clue: Neo-Confederacy and the Ironies of White Supremacy (6/6/00)

Seeing the System: Alan Greenspan, Unemployment and the Validation of Radical Analysis (5/10/00)

A Tale of Two Cities: "Rational" Racism, Amadou Diallo and the Rest of Us (3/22/00)

When Anti-Racism Strikes Out: Understanding the Difference Between Personal and Systemic Racism (2/26/00)

Resolutions for Radicals in the New Millennium (1/26/00)

Springing the Diversity Trap: Thoughts on How Not to Defend Affirmative Action (12/16/99)

The Trouble With Tolerance (11/27/99)

The Kids are All-White: Riots and the Real Meaning of Color-Blindness (8/26/99)

Of Hate Crimes, Big and Small (8/12/99)

(Mis)Remember When: Whiteness and the Recollection of History (7/3/99)

The Threat of a Good Example: Reflections on Hope and Tenacity (6/20/99)

The Devil Made 'Em Do It: Social Crisis and the Misuse of Faith in America (6/1/99)

Blinded by the White: Race, Crime and Columbine High (June 1999)

Famous Last Words: Exploring the Depths of Racist Conditioning (4/24/99)

Bias by the Numbers: Examining the Data on White Racism (3/13/99)

Color-Conscious, White-Blind: Race, Crime and Pathology in America (October 1998)

Is Sisterhood Conditional? White Women and the Rollback of Affirmative Action (Fall 1998)

White Privilege, Uber Alles: What the Attack on Affirmative Action is Really About (1995) (September 1995)

Affirmative Action, Republican Style (February 1995)

"But I Can Explain:" Racism and the Culture of Denial (11/26/94)