Economic unfreedom, not slavery or colonialism, holds the continent back

Guess Who's Been Coming to Dinner? Trends in Interracial Marriage over the 20th Century by Roland G. Fryer Jr.. Published in volume 21, issue 2, pages 71-90 of Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2007, Abstract: This paper studies marriages across black, white, and Asian racial lines....

Acting white was once a label used by scholars, writing in obscure journals, to characterize academically inclined, but allegedly snobbish, minority students who were shunned by their peers.

In the 1960s Blacks and Whites chose relatively similar first names for their children. The patterns in the data appear most consistent with a model in which the rise of the Black Power movement influenced how Blacks perceived their identities. We find, however, no negative relationship between...