Book Review: Michael Rudolph West. *The Education of Booker T. Washington: American Democracy and the Idea of Race Relations*
New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
IF THE COLOR LINE WAS THE PROBLEM of the American 20th century, then the 20th century did not manage to solve it. De jure segregation ended some forty years ago, and American social norms mostly bar the public expression of racist sentiment or stereotype. Yet by any measure – access to quality healthcare and education, rate of incarceration, etc.—black Americans remain proportionally worse off than their white peers.
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