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...intrigued by "Yet a Stranger: Why Black Americans Sill Don't Feel at Home" (Warner; May) by syndicated columnist Deborah Mathis, whose work appears in USA Today. "Forty years after the civil rights movement, not only does racism still exist but it's become even more insidious for having gone underground, argues Mathis. This more virulent strain of discrimination, less blatant, and therefore harder to confront, pervades American society to the extent that black Americans feel defensive and uncomfortable in their own country...
...August 6, Crown will publish "American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America," by Leon Wynter. PW is intrigued. "Making an indisputable if sometimes obvious case for non-white influence on American culture, Wynter, an NPR commentator and former WSJ columnist, here joins a chorus chronicling the dissolution of America's once-clear racial delineations into a 'transracial culture'...The downside of 'transracialism' is 'the steady erosion of black identity as the organizing principle for community development,' but Wynter concludes that 'the future is not about black people leading black people [but] about black people leading...
Goodman also spoke about her experience as a columnist for a major daily paper...
...Being a columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac—once you think you’re through, you have to start all over again,” she said...
Ellen H. Goodman ’63, a Pulitzer-prize winning columnist for the Boston Globe, received the Women’s Professional Achievement Award...