Recently added articles from Michigan Quarterly Review:
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Jul 01, 2009; ... This is the first issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review in thirty-two years not to feature Laurence Goldstein's name on its title page as editor. The customary thing to say at such a moment is that the person you are replacing is irreplaceable. In this case, such words are not only obligatory; ...
OBAMA AND THE CHALLENGE OF THE REAL
Jul 01, 2009; ... Election day, 2008. After months of hand-wringing and check- writing, I arrive bright and early at the Obama headquarters in Ann Arbor only to be told that our county is awash in vol- unteers and that my time really would be better spent in De- troit. So I hop in our dented Camry and make my way ...
"I'M GOING TO BE A NEGRO TONIGHT": MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., BARACK OBAMA, AND THE "POSTRACIAL" PARADOX
Jul 01, 2009; ... Is it just serendipity that Martin Luther King's eightieth birthday was celebrated one day before Barack Obama was sworn in as president? To many ebullient Americans, Obama's triumph marked the fulfillment of King's so-called color-blind dream. The new president has long positioned himself in ...
LONGING TO LOSE THE SKEPTICISM: RACE RELATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL EQUITY IN THE OBAMA ERA
Jul 01, 2009; ... When I was a child, African American teachers in my de facto segregated schools in the Deep South encouraged students to believe that they could become anything that they wanted. "Work hard and just believe that you can do it," they would say to motivate us to do well academically. Education was ...
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN OTHERWISE
Jul 01, 2009; ... On a bitterly cold, sun-splashed Tuesday in Washington, on the steps of the Capitol Building, before a vast and rapturous crowd, Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth president of the United States. On the inaugural stand, among the guests of honor, sat John Lewis, a veteran of the civil ...