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Road Tripping Through Whitopia

Rich Benjamin set out to write about race‚ and wrote about class instead.

By David Sirota

With the historic election of our nation’s first African-American president, new polls suggest that America—particularly white America—now believes racism is not a big problem anymore. And yet, as Rich Benjamin, a fellow at Demos, a think tank, discovered in a 26,909-mile journey across the country, the racial divide persists. In his upcoming book Searching for Whitopia: How the Whiter Half Lives… return to article

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    After being called a “coward” by the Attorney General, it’s refreshing to read a conversation about race that acknowledges the complexities and nuances and doesn’t talk down to us with dogmatic snobbery. And it’s about time that someone brought “class” back into the discussion. Well done to both interviewer and interviewee.

    United States Posted by marcello09 on Mar 11, 2009 at 3:23 PM
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