Explanations for racial gaps in national policy opinion are often complicated by overlapping class/material and identity-based forces. If blacks are more favorable to racial or social welfare policies, it is difficult to know whether their material interests or their identification as a member...

In "Profiling the New Immigrant Worker: The Effects of Skin Color and Height," (Journal of Labor Economics 2008), I present strong evidence of a wage penalty to darker skin color among new legal immigrants to the United States. Immigrants with the lightest skin color earn on average 17 percent...

Filmmakers of Africa and the African diaspora have a long tradition of imagining their brothers and sisters from other parts of global Africa in their films, such as Ousmane Sembene s African American GI in Camp de Thioroye (1988) or Nnegest Likke s Nigerian love interest in Phat Girlz (2006)....