The Changing Face Of Race: The Role Of Racial Politics In Shaping Modern America

If everyone is against racism now, why does awareness of race have such a deep, if hidden, hold on our consciousness, institutions, and politics? Why does racial thinking still have such a profound impact on the life chances of blacks and whites? The Changing Face of Race is a sociohistorical study of the dynamics of the American black-white racial situation, especially since World War II.

The Changing Face of Race is unique as a critical overview of how racism has changed over time—and how it has not changed. It shows how racial thinking continues to permeate and define America as a nation: through economic inequality, de facto segregation, and a politics of racial division. It takes a critical look at the "postliberal consensus" of the Clinton era and post-Clinton era elites. And it calls for deracialing American politics and society, if there is to be hope of achieving opportunity for all Americans.

Kofi Buenor Hadjor was the editor of Third World Communications. He studied at McGill, Stanford, and Oxford Universities and has taught at several universities in Africa, Canada, and the United States. He was a press aide to the late President Kwame Nkrumah and represented Ghana on the Permanent Secretariat of the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization. Hadjor also served as Director of the Tanzania School of Journalism and as the editor of New Africa, a leading news magazine on Africa. He is the author of On Transforming Africa: Discourse with Africa’s Leaders (AWP, 1987).