Democracy in Black

How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul

Ranked #43 in Democracy

A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society.

America's great promise of equality has always rung hollow in the ears of African Americans. But today the situation has grown even more dire. From the murders of black youth by the police, to the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act, to the disaster visited upon poor and middle-class black families by the Great Recession, it is clear that black America faces an emergency--at the very moment the election of the first black president has prompted many to believe we've solved...
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