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Commentary

• Mark Naison: Is "Schwartze" A Racial Slur? Reflections on Jackie Mason's Comedy and Yiddish Vernacular Speech
  

• Stuart Taylor Jr.: Let The Honest Talk About Race Begin
  

• Historians: No one moment can overcome America's struggle with racism
  

• Dayo Olopade: Why Eric Holder’s “race speech” was better than Barack Obama’s
  

• Eric Holder Speech Sparks Debate on Race
  

• Henry Louis Gates Jr. and John Stauffer: What would Lincoln make of a black president?
  

• Annette Gordon-Reed: Jefferson's vision
  

• Robert J. Harris and Rosalyn Terborg-Penn: The end of black history?
  

• Tom Palaima: MLK, Barack Obama and our hope for racial justice
  

• Paul Ortiz: Senator Obama and the Future of American Politics
  

• Obama's true colors: Black, white ... or neither?
  

• Robert Brent Toplin: The Strong Wind at His Back
  

• Marie Arana: He's Not Black
  

• Jeff Kimball: What's Going On In Ohio?
  

• Stanley Kutler: From LBJ to BHO
  

• Michael Levy: The Myth That Race Didn’t Matter
  

• Jason Sokol: Ed Brooke, Barack Obama, and the Color of American Politics
  

• Jim Sleeper: My Almost-Hidden Stake in an Obama Win
  

• US election: Slavery is still an issue
  

• Mark Naison: Hard Times Ahead ... Let's Hope We Can Come Together After This Brutal Election
  

• The black McCains in Mississippi voting for Obama
  

• Debra J. Saunders: Playing the Race Card
  

• David R. Roediger: What Effect Would Obama's Election Have on Race Relations?
  

• James Taranto: Is the "Wilder effect" the result of pro-black bias?
  

• Jonathan Zimmerman: A focus on diversity is keeping us apart
  

• James C. Cobb: How Obama Might Change the Politics of Race in Unexpected Ways
  

• Dick Morris: Hillary is the new Wallace
  

• Randal Maurice Jelks: Obama, Wright, and Trinity
  

• Glenda Gilmore: Incitement to Assassination Has a Special Place in the History of Racism
  

• Debby Applegate: Two Can Make History
  

• Gil Troy: Why is this race about race?
  

• Thomas Fleming: It's Your Turn Kentucky! (Re: Democrats' history of racism)
  

• Arica L. Coleman: Hillary Clinton and the Possessive Investment in Whiteness
  

• Leon Wieseltier: The False Prophesy Of Jeremiah Wright
  

• Daniel Pipes: Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood
  

• Manisha Sinha: Is Obama Lincoln to Hillary's Seward?
  

• Clare Spark: Is Reverend Wright a Black Liberationist?
  

• Josh Goldberg: Pastor Wright's wrong about the Tuskegee experiments
  

• Jim Sleeper: Obama in the Wilderness
  

• Ari Kelman: So Pastor Wright Would Be Controversial If He Were White?
  

• Noam Scheiber: Why'd Obama Join Trinity in the First Place?
  

• Humberto Fontova: Jeremiah Wright's Cuban Friends
  

• E.J.Dionne: Not to absolve Reverend Wright of his behavior, but ...
  

• Andrew Murphy: When is a Jeremiah not a Jeremiah?
  

• Jim Sleeper: Obama's Way Out of the Race Trap
  

• Ronald Kessler: Obama's Mythology About Pastor Wright
  

• Judith Apter Klinghoffer: Obama on his not "typical white" grandparents
  

• Sean Wilentz: Obama was the first to play the race card
  

• Thomas Sowell: The Audacity of Rhetoric
  

• James S. Robbins: ON the differences between Obama's race speech and Kennedy's religion speech
  

• Jeremy Cameron Young: His Bravest Moment: Obama's Refusal to Scapegoat His Pastor
  

• B. E. Myers: The Cultural Roots of the Dismissive Argument that Obama Supporters Are “Obamamaniacs”
  

• David Kaiser: Obama's Speech: A Turning Point
  

• Rick Shenkman: Has Obama Found Himself Trapped by a Myth?
  

• KC Johnson: Obama, Race, and North Carolina

• Rick Shenkman: An advantage thrown away

• Edward J. Blum: Interviewed about Obama and race

• Andrew Meyer: Obama, Race, and History

• Catharine Crier: Religious Bigotry Across the Board

• Nicholas Kristof: Obama and Race

• E.J. Dionne: Jeremiah Wright is not as far outside the African-American mainstream as many would like to think.

• Steven Waldman: John Adams ... God Damn America

• Peggy Noonan: A Thinking Man's Speech

• Julian E. Zelizer: How Democrats can lose in November

• Joseph Lane: Ok, There’s Jeremiah Wright, but What About John Hagee, Pat Robertson

• Victor Davis Hanson: Obama's speech ... Untruth upon untruth—our new Nixon?

• Gil Troy: Obama’s Speech Moves from Political Spin to Historic Vision

• "Spengler": The peculiar theology of black liberation

• Edwin Black: Barack Obama--Mentored by an anti-American, anti-Zionist Black Separatist

• Shelby Steele: The Obama Bargain

• Edward J. Blum: “God Damn America” in Black and White

• Ralph Luker: Jeremiah

• Mark Steyn: Obama's pastor disaster

• Gerald Posner: Rev Wright and Barack

• Nicholas J. G. Winter: Why Race, Gender, and Politics Are Dangerous Frames

• Daniel Pipes: "America's Chickens are Coming Home to Roost"

• Sean Wilentz: Response to Orlando Patterson's essays on the Clinton campaign's use of race

• Sean Wilentz: Response to Orlando Patterson's essays on the Clinton campaign's use of race

• Sean Wilentz: Hold On--'3 A.M.' Wasn't Racist

• Michael Knox Beran: Obama’s Messianic Politics ... Why his healer-redeemer rhetoric has a limited appeal

• Jim Sleeper: Has History Canceled Farrakhan’s Endorsement?

• Sean Wilentz: How Barack Obama played the race card and blamed Hillary Clinton

• Shelby Steele: Why Obama is a "bound man" (interview)

• Sean Wilentz: Obama's misuse of history (About LBJ and Civil Rights laws)

• Allegra Goodman: Forget Kenya and Kansas, black and white. To understand Obama, understand this ... The man is Hawaiian.

• David Greenberg: Why Obamamania? Because He Runs as The Great White Hope.

• Sean Wilentz: To understand Hillary Clinton's "race problem," we must better understand the history of civil rights.

• Rick Shenkman: Would Barack Obama be plausible as a candidate for the presidency at this stage in his career if he weren't black?

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