What Can You Say?: America's National Conversation on Race

by John Hartigan Jr.

Book Overview

We are in a transitional moment in our national conversation on race. "Despite optimistic predictions that Barack Obama's election would signal the end of race as an issue in America, the race-related news stories just keep coming. Race remains a political and polarizing issue, and the sprawling, unwieldy, and often maddening means we have developed to discuss and evaluate what counts as "racial" can be frustrating. In What Can You Say?,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804763364
• ISBN13: 9780804763363
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"