As the Green Card Lottery Gets the Red Card
A few weeks ago, an African-American woman told me she’s always suspicious of the motives of African men who profess love to her. She says ...
African Americans and the Politics of “Model Minority”
By Farooq A. Kperogi The discourse of “model minority” has been a central theme of America’s racial politics since the late 1960s...
Can Arabs and Whites be Real Africans?
By Farooq A. Kperogi This week’s ruminations were inspired by two events that occurred in May. The first was an Internet debate I had with a...
Study Finds No Evidence of Indian Genes in African Americans
By Farooq A. Kperogi An interesting study of African genetics published today has just confirmed what I've always suspected: that, cont...
Can you tell an African from a Black American? (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi As I have said earlier—and in many of my musings on this topic in earlier posts—the stereotype many African Americans h...
Can you tell an African from a Black American? (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi After more than 400 years of spatial separation, do Africans and their cousins in the Americas still share the same phy...
