Volume 34, Number 12 · July 16, 1987
Chance Missed
By Nicholas Lemann
Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry
by Robert Sam Anson
Random House, 221 pp., $17.95
At some point in the mid-Sixties it became apparent that race relations was not just a southern problem; indeed, that in the North it wasn't just Brooklyn's and the South Side of Chicago's problem. Every house had to be put in order. A solemnly self-conscious reappraisal began in a great many institutions, most intensely in prep schools and colleges, which see themselves as both the point of entry into the leadership class and the shaper of its values. Rather than simply moralize against racism, the schools would aggressively recruit black students while reshaping their white students' racial attitudes.
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