| Details | | Publication Date: | 1999-01-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 299 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.5 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
Publisher's Note
The signs of progress are everywhere-- white children want to "be like Mike," Oprah chats with millions everyday, Newt Gingrich quotes Martin Luther King. But when we look beyond the rhetoric and symbols, we find a very different reality: 70 percent of black children attend predominantly black schools; a Hispanic or Asian American with a third grade education is more likely to live in an integrated neighborhood than a black with a Ph.D.-- and the list goes on.By the Color of Our Skin is a provocative, readable analysis of race that argues three things: integration does not exist now, it was never a possibility in the past, and it will never exist in the future. Authors Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown want integration to be a reality. But their in-depth research, including polls, statistics, and powerful anecdotes about the daily lives of ordinary Americans, reveals the unfortunate truth. The book argues that the integration illusion keeps us from solving the problems of race. How did we get to this point? Why is this illusion so deeply entrenched in our society? And, if integration has failed, what should we do about race relations? In answering these questions, By the Color of Our Skin explodes one of our most powerful myths and outlines a new vision of race in America.
This provocative, readable analysis shatters one of American society's most powerful myths, while outlining a new vision of race and race relations.
Industry Reviews
"A clear-headed, energetic and pointedly sarcastic book about this country's racial divisions and cultural hypocrisy."
Lee
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