Abstract
The year 2008 has provided many opportunities to look back and take stock of what has and has not changed along the color line. Perhaps of greatest salience is that this year marks four decades of uneven progress since the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. It also marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of what became known as the Kerner Commission report (National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders 1968). The great sadness following those tragic deaths, and the somber tone set by the “two nations” declaration at the heart of the Kerner Report, call to mind an era of acute racial division, but also of steady struggle for change.
Highlights
Perhaps of greatest salience is that this year marks four decades of uneven progress since the tragic assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and of Senator Robert F
Some might say, that these audacious achievements promise the emergence of a “postracial” United States
Should Obama be successful in his quest for the White House, it is clear enough that much remains to be done for racial divisions in the United States to heal
Summary
Should Obama be successful in his quest for the White House, it is clear enough that much remains to be done for racial divisions in the United States to heal. Numerous scholars have wrestled with how to assess whether it is race or class that drives White resistance to live in certain neighborhoods ~Massey and Denton, 1993; Farley et al, 1994; Bobo and Zubrinsky, 1996; Harris 2001; Charles 2006!.
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