This work offers a discussion of racism in America focusing on how white people have been affected by their own racism and how it impacts upon relations between blacks and whites. It draws attention to how racism is different from race and shows how whites have maintained a white racist America.
Neither American history nor American society anticipated, sanctioned or encouraged the development of either black intellectuals or a black middle class. This text considers the role of the American Negro Academy, an organization founded in 1897 to help develop a leadership class of black America.
