It also
points to the many important contributions which they have made
to American cultural life. The spotlight is on what they felt and
thought, on the attitudes they developed, and on their increasingly
vocal protests against the unfair treatment which they believed
was directed at them.
Besides taking a socio-cultural approach to the subject, this
book is deliberately interpretive rather than being merely a
narrative of events. It is reasonably brief in the hope that it
will appeal to interested laymen. At the same time, it contains a
number of footnotes so that either scholars or laymen, wanting to
check their thoughts against the interpretation presented here,
can readily use this book as a guide to further reading. (Note the
footnotes are not in this electronic version.)
If at times the treatment of the white majority seems harsh, it
is because, in my opinion, it is still necessary for Americans to
take a long, cold look at the chilling facts which have too often
been ignored. Yet, times and people do change. Race relations in
America are not today what they were a century ago.
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