Voices Stories by Basil Wilson
The scapegoating of immigrants
The ongoing attacks on Mexicans in Port Richmond and Staten Island are deplorable but somewhat unfathomable when the attackers are identified as black youths. more>
Obama and the invisibility of race in America
The author suggests that the heated reaction to Professor Gates' encounter with the police at his Cambridge home's doorstep is partially due to anxiety by conservative whites to the Census prediction that whites will shift into a minority status within the next 50 years. more>
Blacks, the college campus and prison
The relationship of black males to the college campus and the prison compound has shaped the peculiar configuration of black communities over the last two and a half decades. Since American politics have shifted to the right, public policy emanating from the state sector has been instrumental in constricting avenues of upward mobility. more>