Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity

The Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune presents a series of essays examining the central questions of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have emerged since the civil rights reforms of the mid-1960s. The essays address such topics as how racism still acts to keep nonwhites in subordinate political, economic, and social status; how the hip-hop generation has turned - black is beautiful on its head; and the volatile relationship between blacks and Jews. Page reflects on changes in the racial landscape since the 1960s and reconnects the increasingly abstract political debates about black conservatives, affirmative action, and the race card to the people for whom these words mean something more than just votes.Explores key issues of race, gender, and ethnic identity that have arisen since the civil rights reforms of the 1960s

Clarence Page is the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Chicago Tribune as well as a memorable weekly commentator on National Public Radio's Sunday Morning Edition and a regular on The McLaughlin Group. He is also a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal and The New Republic. He lives in Washington, DC.