How much racial progress has been achieved in America since 1955, when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered all 50 states to desegregate public schools “with all deliberate speed”? How should we understand troubling trends toward resegregation in southern public … Read more

Where did the Asian sit on the segregated bus? Drawing from her book, ‘Partly Colored’: Asian Americans and Racial Anomaly in the Segregated South, Leslie Bow traces narratives that attempted to reconcile Asian Americans to segregation’s distinction between black and … Read more