Some would say, "Now is not the time to talk about race in politics. America is divided and needs to be united." Alice Patterson demonstrates that now is the ti

"Ideas of authenticity and respectability were central to the construction of black identities within black cultural and political resistance movements of the e

Studies the rising inequality in American society and addresses the need for a progressive, multiracial political coalition to combat that inequality.

In interviews in cities and towns across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles, and from Madison to Dallas, members of 40 black and white pairs of fri

Again and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real pr