Double Consciousness  

Most white Americans know about the scorn many ghetto youths feel for “acting white” —for studying, for doing well in school, for playing by white rules and meeting the white man’s standards. Most assume it is a passing phase, curable, …



Thinking About the Homeless  

They seemed at first like an apt symbol: a tragic embodiment of all that needed fixing in America. Dirt poor, out of work, without a safety net, the pitiful army of the “homeless” pricked the country’s conscience. Like blacks in …