Race
Subtitle: how Blacks and whites think and feel about the American obsession
By: Studs Terkel.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New Press; Distributed by W.W. Norton
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
Subjects: Oral history; United States -- Race relations
Description: A provocative look at contemporary race relations. First published in 1992 at the height of the furor over the Rodney King incident, Studs Terkel's Race was an immediate bestseller. In a rare and revealing look how at how people in America truly feel about race, Terkel brings out the full complexity of the thoughts and emotions of both blacks and whites, uncovering a fascinating narrative of changing opinions. Preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, interracial couples, the nephew of the founder of apartheid, and Emmett Till's mother are among those whose voices appear in Race. In all, nearly one hundred Americans talk openly about attitudes that few are willing to admit in public: feelings about affirmative action, gentrification, secret prejudices, and dashed hopes.