Realizing the Civil Rights Dream: Diagnosing and Treating American Racism

This book explains why America can realize the civil rights dream in the 21st century—if U.S. citizens take actions as individuals as well as work together for equality.

• Asks—and answers—the troubling question: Why have the civil rights hopes of the 1960s not yet been realized?

• Demonstrates the relationship between what happens in everyday life and racism's persistence

• Provides insightful historical context for racism as it exists in the 21st century

• Presents a framework for understanding how social forces preserve racism

• Offers a refreshingly optimistic perspective that racism can be overcome