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Synopsis
This book attempts to explain why it has been so difficult to solve America's racial problems as the country has moved from what the author describes as a closed caste to an open class society. The author contends that Americans fail to perceive how the legacy of slavery interferes with social mobility and highlights the values that middle-class blacks and whites need to uphold, most prominently the emphasis on freedom as opposed to total equality.
Booknews
Acknowledging that it will almost certainly bring charges of racism against him, Fein (Kennesaw State U., Georgia) offers his own analysis of public policy on race and its consequences. He challenges an approach to race relations that assumes blacks to be weak and whites to be sinners, and that urges whites to convert from their transgressions and rescue blacks from the dilemma. Racism is not a moral problem, he argues, and it cannot be eradicated until its real nature is understood. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)