It's very, very selective how people think of these issues. That way, you can't really separate out whiteness, because whiteness is everything leftover when you take out jazz, and chow fun and egg rolls, and salsa and sweat lodges. I'm not sure that that's exactly right. The media, like schools, like prisons, are tools which we have to seek to use better. Your optimism is striking in contrast with the overwhelmingly dismal tone of most race-relations coverage.
Different people have very different views about what the book says.
Devall '80, a correspondent for National Public Radio, is based in Miami.