Why do we care so much about Rachel Dolezal, the head of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. who apparently misrepresented herself as African-American when, according to her parents, she is Czech, Swedish and German, with some remote Native American ancestry? In one sense, it’s not at all surprising. Stories of white Americans “passing”…
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Suppression of reading material is not a relic of the past. There are too many grim reminders that Black history, its ideas and the books that contain them are still often unwelcome today.