How Race Is Lived in America
Two generations after the end of legal discrimination, race still ignites political debates -- over Civil War flags, for example, or police profiling. But the wider public discussion of race relations seems muted by a full-employment economy and by a sense, particularly among many whites, that the time of large social remedies is past. Race relations are being defined less by political action than by daily experience, in schools, in sports arenas, in pop culture and at worship, and especially in the workplace. These encounters -- race relations in the most literal, everyday sense -- make up this series of reports, the outcome of a yearlong examination by a team of Times reporters. (Click here to see the source material for this on the New York Times website. The New York Times presentation has many features not captured here.)
| Getting Under My Skin | 7/16/00 | NYT |
| Bricks, Mortar and Coalition Building | 7/13/00 | NYT |
| Why Harlem Drug Cops Don't Discuss Race | 7/ 9/00 | NYT |
| Guarding the Borders of the Hip-Hop Nation | 7/ 6/00 | NYT |
| The Minority Quarterback | 7/ 2/00 | NYT |
| The Hurt Between the Lines | 6/29/00 | NYT |
| Growing Up, Growing Apart | 6/24/00 | NYT |
| Reaping What Was Sown on the Old Plantation | 6/22/00 | NYT |
| When to Campaign With Color | 6/20/00 | NYT |
| At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die | 6/16/00 | NYT |
| A Limited Partnership | 6/14/00 | NYT |
| Who Gets to Tell a Black Story ? | 6/11/00 | NYT |
| Which Mans Army | 6/ 7/00 | NYT |
| Best of Friends, Worlds Apart | 6/ 5/00 | NYT |
| Shared Prayers, Mixed Blessings | 6/ 4/00 | NYT |
| Testing the Faithful | 6/ 4/00 | NYT |
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