Reckoning with Race: America's Failure

Reckoning with Race confronts America's most intractable problem—race. The book outlines in a provocative, novel manner American racial issues from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. It explodes myths about the South as America's exclusive racial scapegoat. The book moves to the Great Migration north and the urban ghettos which still plague America.

Importantly, the evergreen topics of identity, assimilation, and separation come to the fore in a balanced, uncompromisin...