Even broaching the topic of “acting white” is the prelude to a fight. Those two small words are imbued with so much meaning within the black community. Is it racial policing and self-sabotage that ...

The response to my Bloggingheads conversation with Stanford Law’s Richard Thompson Ford on the ”acting white” issue is making me feel old. My entree into the race debate was in my 2000 book, Losing ...

Is it possible that school desegregation actually hurt African American students? That's the argument Stuart Buck advances in a new book called Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation, ...

Prologue : a new day or deja vu? -- Uncle Tom's cabin : the genesis of acting white -- Booker T. Washington : a turn of the century Uncle Tom acting white? -- Plessy v. Ferguson : a long journey ...