Table of Contents

Preface History: What It Is, What It Tells Us Racism Matters White and Black Alienation in America The Experiment That Never Was, 1783-1883 The Origins and Legitimacy of Black Power Yet to Learn about Freedom Subtle White Racism Racism and the Question of Intelligence I Racism and the Question of Intelligence II Cognitive Elites and American Division Index

About the Author

W. D. WRIGHT is Professor of History at Southern Connecticut State University. He is the author of Black Intellectuals, Black Cognition, and a Black Aesthetic (Praeger, 1997).

Reviews

?[T]his useful set of essays centers on a key idea: the problem at the heart of US society is not "race" but "white racism." The essays cover many interesting issues with provocative insights and autobiographical references....?-Choice

"�T�his useful set of essays centers on a key idea: the problem at the heart of US society is not "race" but "white racism." The essays cover many interesting issues with provocative insights and autobiographical references...."-Choice

"[T]his useful set of essays centers on a key idea: the problem at the heart of US society is not "race" but "white racism." The essays cover many interesting issues with provocative insights and autobiographical references...."-Choice