Full name: Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession

Author: Studs Terkel Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9781459604261 1459604261

First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel's Race was an immediate bestseller. In a rare and revealing look how at how people in America truly feel about race, Terkel brings out the full complexity of the thoughts and emotions of both blacks and whites, uncovering a fascinating narrative of changing opinions. Preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, interracial couples, the nephew of the founder of apartheid, and Emmett Till's mother are among those whose voices appear in Race. In all, nearly one hundred Americans talk openly about attitudes that few are willing to admit in public; feelings about affirmative action, gentrification, secret prejudices, and dashed hopes. Similar books: American Dreams by Studs Terkel Hope Dies Last by Studs Terkel White Rage by Carol Anderson Two Nations by Andrew Hacker The Content of Our Character by Shelby Steele Critical Race Theory by Richard Delgado Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen The Future of the Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. White Guilt by Shelby Steele Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi Dying of Whiteness by Jonathan M. Metzl Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi