Race/Ethnicity

A Time for Healing
African Americans now account for the majority of new AIDS cases. But a crusading Harlem pastor believes the black church can slow the epidemic's spread.
By Jacob Levenson
July/August 2000 Issue

Ward Connerly Won the Battle -- Now He's Facing the War
The anti-affirmative action crusader struggles with the consequences of his own success.
By Ethan Watters
November/December 1997 Issue

Changing Colors
America's shifting demographic landscape requires seeing beyond black & white.
September/October 1997 Issue

The End of the Rainbow
The poverty of racial politics and the future of liberalism
By Michael Lind
September/October 1997 Issue

Race to the Top
America's oldest public school, a long-standing paragon of diversity, carries on as affirmative action wanes.
By Bebe Nixon
September/October 1997 Issue

Getting in Touch with My Inner Racist
By Art Spiegelman
September/October 1997 Issue

The Race Course
Editor's Note
By Jeffrey Klein
September/October 1997 Issue

Race to the Right
Recruiting blacks will force the Christian Coalition to confront the tension between its two goals: to be religious and to control the political agenda.
By Ann Monroe
May/June 1997 Issue

American Dreamer
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
By Bharati Mukherjee
January/February 1997 Issue

Mixed Paint
America is less a mosaic than a can of paint whose colors are running together. But having enabled integration, liberalism has had to take the blame for the cultural antagonisms that integration has caused.
By Louis Menand
March/April 1995 Issue

Walled Off
In Dana Point, the wealthy live behind walls and guards. The immigrants who tend their lawns and children live outside the gates. Both the whites and the Latinos that I talk to think that I'm on their side. Both are right.
By Dale Maharidge
November/December 1994 Issue

Changing Colors
Once a rising star in the white supremacist movement, Floyd Cochran now attacks racism with equal fervor. Is he for real?
By Adam Hochschild
May/June 1994 Issue

Migrants No More
Mexicans used to come to California's San Joaquin Valley to work the harvest and go home. But now the migrants are settling in -- and so is a stark, new kind of poverty.
By Maggie Jones
November/December 2004 Issue

The New Yankees
Before the Somali refugees showed up, Lewiston, Maine, was just another struggling mill town. Now it has a mosque, three halal shops, and -- for the first time in a century -- a growing population.
By Maggie Jones
March/April 2004 Issue

Hispanic Diaspora
Drawn by jobs, Latino immigrants are moving to small towns like Siler City, North Carolina, bringing with them new diversity -- and new tensions.
By Barry Yeoman
July/August 2000 Issue

From Civil War to the Drug War
East African immigrants are risking prison for a taste of home.
By Frank Bures
November/December 2001 Issue

American Dreamer
I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really a demand that America deliver the promises of its dream to all its citizens equally.
By Bharati Mukherjee
January/February 1997 Issue

Walled Off
In Dana Point, the wealthy live behind walls and guards. The immigrants who tend their lawns and children live outside the gates.
By Dale Maharidge
November/December 1994 Issue

Keepers of a Lost Language
An 82-year-old linguist and his young protÈgÈ are among the last speakers of a native California language ó and its final chance.
By Dashka Slater
July/August 2004 Issue

A Broken Trust
The government cannot account for billions of dollars it owes to Native Americans.
By Tom Dunkel and Bill Hogan
March/April 2002 Issue

Wrong Side of the Fence
As the deadline for their forced relocation approaches, a handful of Navajos struggle to hold their place on the sacred earth.
By B.J. Bergman
January/February 2000 Issue

The Conscience of Place: Sand Creek
National Park Service archaeologists recently established the location where the Colorado Calvary slaughtered more than 125 Cheyennes and Arapahos in 1864.
By Verlyn Klinkenborg
November/December 2000 Issue

Incident at Round Valley
What began as a deadly dispute between Indian families turned into a lesson about power, guilt, and justice for one California community.
By Maryanne Vollers
September/October 1999 Issue

The Great American Whale Hunt
As a Washington state Indian tribe prepares to revive a whale-hunting tradition, multiculturists and environmentalists fight over whether it's more important to save whales or Indian culture, and a 30-year global trend against killing whales will likely end.
By Richard Blow
September/October 1998 Issue