Author: MassCommons

(Now that it’s Election Day 2015, the Politics department here at MassCommons World Headquarters has grudgingly agreed to start writing about the 2016 presidential race.) We don’t do predictions.  This...

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) Why does Fredrickson spend much of the final chapter of Racism: A Short History writing about Nazi Germany, the Jim Crow South (US),...

On Sunday the Boston Globe printed an opinion column from MoveOn’s Anna Galland in which she urged Sen. Elizabeth Warren to run for president: Our country will be better off if she does. She would be a strong candidate...

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) Centuries in the making, Western racism came to “a hideous fruition” in the 20th century: “Its two most persistent...

(One in a series of posts on George Fredrickson’s 2002 book, Racism: A Short History.) How is it, Fredrickson asks, that “pre-Darwinian scientific racism flowered in France and the United States” (p....