Other various authors on race and race relations have touched on aspects of white culture in their writings. We have taken this broader, less focused, body of writing as source material as well. For our intended audience, we direct our writings to a diverse body of professionals. Our approach strives to be objective, but we must acknowledge that it stems from a basic dissatisfaction for the quality of race relations in contemporary America. We do want change, and we believe most Americans agree with us on this simple point.
Race relations are nothing to brag about here in the United States.
The polls often tell us that. So, we want things to get better. This is our way of trying to figure out how, exactly, to do that. Our research is not quantitative. Occasionally we count fragments of speech and make global comparisons, e.g. participants in our focus groups expressed three times as many negative emotions as positive ones.