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Taking his patient and prescient eye to modern events, Dawson gives us a clear-eyed look at black America. The popular wish to believe the races are (finally) equal, is unsettled in this sober and illuminating account of black political thought. What DuBois gave us 100 years ago, Dawson offers us today: an empathetic, but critical look at race relations in America today. This is social scientific truth-telling at its best. --Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day Not in Our Lifetimes is vintage Michael Dawson. This book is replete with insights on the black/white public opinion divide in the aftermath of the Katrina crisis. The implications of the increasing class cleavages among African Americans and the growing wave of immigrants for multiracial political alliances are also discussed with authority and remarkable clarity, and provide a backdrop for a compelling argument on why new visions are needed to guide black politics in the twenty-first century. Dawson's penetrating analysis is a must-read. --William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

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Michael C. Dawson is the John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and professor in the College at the University of Chicago, where he is also director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. He is the author of three other books: Blacks In and Out of the Left, Black Visions, and Behind the Mule.

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