In celebration of Black History Month we are featuring on our website two
new and insightful books about African-American history and contemporary
life.
(1) Progress in racial equality depends on a crisis. In _The Unsteady March:
The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America_ Philip A. Klinkner and
Rogers M. Smith present a new history of race relations and pinpoint the
conditions under which progress occurs. Read the introduction:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/443396.html
(2) What separates the black and white middle classes? _Black Picket
Fences: Privilege and Peril among the Black Middle Class_ by Mary
Pattillo-McCoy is a rare look at the life of the black middle class. Read
the introduction:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/649288.html
We also have an new version of our Black Studies Catalog:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Subjects/virtual_black.html
As always, our excerpts and features are available for reprinting. Please
reply for details.
Dean Blobaum
The University of Chicago Press
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/