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...result of Barack Obama's groundbreaking candidacy, American attitudes about skin color have been put under a microscope this year. Michigan State University Social Work Professor Ronald Hall had a jump-start on that debate; he has been studying the social consequences of skin color for more than 20 years. He is the editor of a new scholarly book, Racism in the 21st Century: An Empirical Analysis of Skin Color (Springer). TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs spoke with Hall about race and its impact on the current campaign...
...Ronald Hall: Before I got into academia, I worked in a mental health clinic. Ninety percent of the patients were African-American, because it was in Detroit. Sometimes we would get at their underlying problems. It seemed it would always have something to do with skin color, but they never would want to talk about that. That spurred me to start doing a lot of reading. And the reading informed me about something I already knew about, sort of at a subconscious level. It's an experience with skin color that most African-Americans are aware...
Despite their camaraderie, they will soon be forced apart. After filling the hall in Lancaster, McCain went outside, climbed onto a platform and addressed the hundreds of supporters who never made it inside. "I'm grateful that you are here," he said into a microphone. "I'm not going to let you down." But as he stepped down to work the rope line, the chants--"Sa-rah! Sa-rah! Sa-rah!"--had already started up again, even though she was nowhere in sight...
...Haskins, The Hall of Fame college basketball coach who died Sept. 7 at age 78, wasn't unique. That's too broad a term. He was a pure gold original. There will never be another like...
Freshmen crowded into Emerson Hall yesterday for one of their first chances to hear new College Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds...