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Terkel, Studs Race
Minerva May 13, 1993 0-7493-9707-1 / 9780749397074 Paperback Very Good++
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout. The first title from Andre Schiffrin's publishing house is a major, timely book for an election year. In Terkel's ( Hard Times ) well-established manner--he is one of the great interviewers--he encourages a wide range of Americans, black and white, to speak their minds about race with remarkable frankness, as well as about their perceptions of the Washington leadership. The resulting book is infinitely more informative than polls taken on such issues because the subjects are allowed to explore their thoughts, prejudices, hopes and fears. There is almost universal agreement among the blacks and white sympathizers interviewed that life looks darker for blacks now than it did 20 years ago. A strong commitment to civil rights, meaningful affirmative action and poverty programs and a social climate in which overt racism was unacceptable all apparently suffered during the Reagan years. And now the economic hardships that are also partly a legacy of that era are further polarizing American society in ways that are seldom discussed. As South African author Rian Malan tells Terkel, "I think there's been an unhealthy trend in America for a long time not to discuss race. . . . I think airing prejudice could be healthy. . . . Race prejudice is something that thrives in ignorance." But optimism is hard to come by. Black psychologist Kenneth Clark states: "I am not sanguine about any kind of solid decency and justice in the area of race in America. The best we can settle for is appearance." The immediacy with which the interviewees speak about their experiences brings a fine leavening of
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