Class and Race in Black America

These books address a wide array of topics relating to the changing position of blacks in America. Both acknowledge the importance of the reforms won by the civil rights movement. Both also offer carefully documented indictments of the continuing poverty and discrimination experienced by many black Americans. Dividing the authors is their disagreement over what lies at the root of black woes. Dorothy Newman et al. see the stubborn persistence of white racism as the basic problem. William Juli...