The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black... →
Henry Louis Gates
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American... →
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the... →
One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up... →
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of... →
In America one drop of black ancestry makes you black. In Brazil, it's almost as if one drop of white ancestry makes you white.
In fact, the class divide in the black community is now seen by some as a permanent aspect of our existence.
My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.
It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the... →
The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black... →