Volume 4: Issue 2
Roger Clegg Reviews "Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America" Editied by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
Early in his second term, President Clinton announced that America badly needed to have a “dialogue” on race, and created a commission to conduct that dialogue. There is no shortage of discussion of racial issues in the United States, and indeed there is already a federal Commission of Civil Rights that conducts hearings on such matters, and the new commission that President Clinton appointed was ill-equipped to conduct a true dialogue.