Premise: As the book discusses the fate of the black college, or the Harlem Renaissance, or the participation of African-American intellectuals in government during World War II, it draws a sharp picture of the fate of blacks with brains, forced, whatever their real interests, to deal with the question of race.

Hypothesis: The book discusses the events that have transpired in black history between the civil war era and current-day affairs. 
Relation: neutral