Volume 44, Number 16 · October 23, 1997
America's Caste System: Will It Change?
By George M. Fredrickson
Liberal Racism
by Jim Sleeper
Viking, 195 pp., $21.95
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible
by Stephan Thernstrom, by Abigail Thernstrom
Simon and Schuster, 704 pp., $32.50
A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America
by David K. Shipler
Knopf, 640 pp., $30.00
The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis
by Orlando Patterson
Civitas, distributed by Counterpoint, 240 pp., $24.50
President Clinton's recent call for a 'national conversation on race' and his appointment of a commission headed by the historian John Hope Franklin to report on the current state of race relations are strong indications that there is once again an upsurge of concern about America's oldest and most persistent problem. Unfortunately, the conversation could easily become a debate that will further polarize rather than unify Americans.
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