Some controversial statistics were released last year by the U.S. Bureau of the Census purporting to show that, by a narrow margin, the majority of Afro-Americans are now middle-income. My
I assume you all know that I really have no business attending this sort of conference. I have no technical terminology and no knowledge of an academic discipline. This isn’t
Ellison argues that imagining America without Black Americans reveals their indispensable role in shaping U.S. democracy, culture, language, and progress.
In spite of all the writing I do, and for all of the lectures I give each year, there are many matters which I won’t write about, nor, except with
Ellison, Ralph. “An American Dilemma: A Review.” In Shadow and Act, 303-317. New York: Random House, 1964. Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma is not an easy book for an American
