Two intriguing pieces of analysis, largely written in reaction to that hard-working white woman:
- Clinton's diminishing of black voters, by Derrick Z. Jackson (via Oliver Willis)
- Wow, We Nominated The Black Guy, by Chris Bowers (via Robert Farley)
Bowers's piece has fairly astounding data. Jackson's piece is just plain great prose.
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Read them both. Impressive. Informative.
(Still following - with interest - the "goings on" in the USA.)
Thanks for posting these, Brendan. I'll read them this afternoon.
Very good stuff.
You might be interested in a slightly different (British, classical liberal) perspective on race in America, I thought this was a highly thought provoking piece about race in America in light of the presumptive win of Obama in The Economist.
I am starting this unrelated programming project (more on that on my blog if it ever gets off the ground) so I have been remiss in writing about this piece, I think it's good enough I should write a post about it, but it has some very interesting stuff from some of the usual suspects (bh.tv alumni Loury, and McWhorter, Dyson) as well as a guy who's apparently a young superstar at Harvard who I'd never heard of named Roland Fryer who is in the lede of the story.
Definitely worth a look.
Adam has come through on his promise to blog about the Economist piece. Read here.
When I get up the right kind of energy, I'll be over there to respond.
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