WHITE FLIGHTS Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination By Jess Row. If you were looking for a primer on our nation’s ability to discuss its racial history, you couldn’t do much better than ...

In his earnest and ranging essay collection, “White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination,” Jess Row, a white writer who dealt with race in his 2015 novel, “Your Face in Mine ...

There have always been those who preferred a white-flight ethos, who felt most at home with homogeneity, ... Nicholas Guyatt pointed out in his book “Bind Us Apart: ...

Former first lady Michelle Obama said Tuesday that white Americans are “still running” from minority communities when they move to another neighborhood. In her memoir, she writes about how the ...

Sometimes flight looked like being pushed out from the violence of the KKK and White mobs. But often it meant being pulled away, drawn to the promise of liberation and pleasure.