Brent Staples

Brent Staples writes an editorial on the politics and culture of the New York Times. He is the author of the memoir of "parallel time: black and white growth". (November 2011)

Invisible lines, through the story of three families - from the pre-revolution era to the present readers - build a fine history of ethnic transport. In the 1760's, Gibson began to turn white in the remote areas of South Carolina, then rose to the highlands of the southern nobility and entered the Senate. Spencer joined the isolated mountain community of Kentucky in the 1840s, became a legitimate white man after racial ambiguity of about 100 years. But this book is based on the story of Mr. Olinda Tus Simon Bolivar Wall and his wife, a wealthy black couple, who moved from the Olympic Ober to the promised day of recovery from Ober.

Reporter and writer Brent Staples was born in Chester, Pennsylvania on September 13, 1951. His father, Melvin Staples, is a truck driver. His mother, Geneva, a housewife. Staples was the eldest son of nine children, he grew up in Chester, but because of family financial problems, he moved seven times before completing junior high school. After planning the only African-American professor, Pennsylvania military academy school at Wisner's college to be in contact, prepare for the staples to be recognized as Widner by the program called the project. He graduated in B.A. in 1973. Degree in behavioral science. 1 from the Danfoss Foundation and 1 from the Ford Foundation; Staples acquired two doctoral scholarships. He went to get his doctorate. In the psychology of the University of Chicago it is 1982 degrees

Brent Waters Staples, Brent Waters Staples is currently a columnist in the New York Times, but when he talks, he is a graduate student in Chicago, experiencing the book title from explanation Steel. African American, afraid to respond to him, when observing with Staples, white, the couple walked him close to Hyde Park. Staples pointed out that white passersmen looked relaxed when he was playing the classical composer Vivaldi's songs and laughed a couple of others. The impression from the possible violent stereotypes of African American youth to highly sophisticated character education, the recognition of Staples clearly demonstrates the power of the historical stereotype steel threat and emergency situation It has been changed, diffuse this threat, white and passersby Staples himself

I started class from Brent Staples' powerful article "Walking sideways: black people and public space". In this article originally published in a women's magazine in 1986, Staples talked about "his troubling heritage" - "ability to change public space in an ugly way", and appeared as an African-American. What makes me sad and angry is that the story of Staples is practically important for nearly 30 years since its first publication. Throughout the article, he shared many times when he was identified as a threat: