Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics

by Michael C. Dawson

Book Overview

For all the talk about a new postracial America, the fundamental realities of American racism--and the problems facing black political movements--have not changed. Michael C. Dawson lays out a nuanced analysis of the persistence of racial inequality and structural disadvantages, and the ways that whites and blacks continue to see the same problems--the disastrous response to Katrina being a prime example--through completely different, race-inflected...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226138623
• ISBN13: 9780226138626
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"