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You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future

You cut, I choose: Imagining a brighter racial future
Remember when some people said that Barack Obama’s election meant we had gone post-racial? It really hasn’t turned out that way. In the last 20 months, we’ve heard the Attorney General of the United States say we’re a “nation of cowards” about race. We’ve seen a movement of people...
July 29th, 2010 | Featured, Talk About Race, US, Visions 2042 | Read More

Social justice as the path to sustainable development

Social justice as the path to sustainable development
What would a more just and equitable United States look like in 2042? I would like to think it would look like sustainable development operating at the neighborhood level across the country, and that this would necessarily be occurring in a world that is finally moving closer to sustainability on a global...
May 27th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More

Whiteness transformed: The racial order in 2042

Whiteness transformed: The racial order in 2042
By Alison D. Goebel I am a white middle class woman.  I grew up in the 1990s in the middle class suburbs of Chicago, one of the nation’s most segregated cities.  While I had classmates who were Arab American, Asian American, Latino and 1.5 generation Eastern European American, they didn’t...
May 27th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More

Transforming the U.S. into a true multiracial democracy

Transforming the U.S. into a true multiracial democracy
By Josh Bassett I direct a specialized educational program in Detroit, conducted through the city’s only community college, Wayne County Community College District; it allows high school students from both Detroit and its metropolitan suburbs to earn college credits while engaging in academic studies...
May 27th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More

What would the US look like in three decades?

What would the US look like in three decades?
By John Kuckuk After the nation seemed to be mired in vituperation, more and more people joined the rising majority, working to re-establish the framework for our country written by our nation’s Founders.   In the American Revolution, bright “provincials” put monarchy behind them and grasped...
May 27th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More

The legacy, the equity, and 2042

The legacy, the equity, and 2042
By Martha Barry The legacy of race. Skin color as a means of separation and segregation had been used to convince us that we were distinctly different from one another. One’s race was institutionalized (used to determine which “box” you belonged in) such that one group was seen as clearly better,...
May 26th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More

What will the justice system look like, with regard to race, in the year 2042?

What will the justice system look like, with regard to race, in the year 2042?
By Todd R. Clear, Rod K. Brunson, and Johnna Chrsitian We are a generation away from 2042. So another way of asking this question is, “What will the next generation bring about with regards to race and criminal justice?” One way to estimate the changes that will occur in the next 32 years is to look...
May 26th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More

Tooth!

Tooth!
By Dale Johnson Tooth. I had to find a word to start my thinking as regards race, and I started with tooth. I pause. I write in the stream and all and tooth- open your mouth. Let me look at your teeth. This terror is above all other terror. I can’t even imagine the deep and subdued but present terror...
May 26th, 2010 | Visions 2042 | Read More
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