The New Black: What Has Changed-and What Has Not-with Race in America

A collection of essays exploring what has changed—and what has not—in America's race relations in the wake of the election of the first Black president.

The election and reelection of Barack Obama ushered in a litany of controversial perspectives about the contemporary state of American race relations. In this incisive volume, some of the country's most celebrated and original thinkers on race—historians, sociologists, writers, scholars, and cultural critics—reexamine the familiar framework ...