Inside from the Inside

Why can’t Republicans attract minority votes?  Strong agreement on social values hasn’t made a dime’s worth of difference at the polls.  What gives?  Ta-Nahesi Coates and Shelby Steele provide two interesting recent takes on the disconnect. Steele, who is among only a handful of prominent Black conservatives, says the problem is that conservatives are uncomfortable [...]

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“Images of Black women that are in fact ‘national, racial, and historical hallucinations’ have been ingrained into the collective conscience of the United states since slavery. Black women have been depicted either naked, generally in an ethnographic context, or as laborers, usually domestic, their social status playing a crucial role in the development of visual [...]

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