The New Multiracial America
September 16, 2021
People who once hid their mixed-race identity or felt pressured to choose one identity or the other, now feel free to embrace the totality of their identity.
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Black Leadership Development’s Checkered History
June 15, 2017
Author Adolph Reed’s book, The Jug and its Contents: A Perspective on Black Political Development raises controversial but provocative questions about Black leadership and the devolving state of the “Black community.” His basic argument is the idea that there is a cohesive Black collectivity or identity is a myth. He attempts to show why this myth was necessary after the Civil War in order to present a semblance of unity.