me:
> does anyone know of a recent popularly-written and accessible book > showing that racism against Blacks still persists in the U.S.?
Miracle Max wrote:
> Haven't read it, only heard about it, but maybe Michael Eric Dyson?
me:
interesting. Does Manning Marable have anything?
Señor Sawicky wrote:
Have no idea.
it's a little sad if there's no popular book on this topic. A lot of people seem to be going with William Julius Wilson's "declining significance of race" hypothesis. Dyson, for example, makes the useful distinction between the afristocracy and the ghettocracy -- which (with Wilson) emphasizes the (real) class distinctions within the African-American population. Wilson's hypothesis may have a large grain of truth in it, but that doesn't mean that race has become _totally_ insignificant. It's still a big one, even in California, where we have multiracial bread riots (like that of 1992). -- Jim Devine / "The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money." -- David Richerby
