Debra Dickerson
Debra Dickerson is the author of An American Story and The End of Blackness, a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, a mother of two, a professional iconoclast, and a recent convert to the glory of High School Musical.
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The Myth of the Moral Majority
Here's the church. Here's the steeple. Open the doors and—hey, where did all the evangelicals go?
The Autobiography of an Ex-White Woman: Bliss Broyard's One Drop
Suddenly, white people are fascinated by race. Good for them. Good for all of us?
Who Is the Big, Bad Media?
A missive from the 10,000 Men rally in Philadelphia.
Whaddya Mean, "We"? Or Why I'll Wear Red on Halloween
When black feminism isn't enough: A brand new sisterhood takes on the politics of pronouns.
The Jena 6: Right Problem, Wrong Protest
Am I the only black person sick of these kinds of rallies?
The Great White Way
Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White by David R. Roediger; When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
A Dream Deferred
A mournful, contrarian dissection of the failed legacy of Brown v. Board of Education.
Locked Out by the System
Jennifer Gonnerman gets it right in her merciless look at the human fallout of New York's drug laws.
