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THE RACE CARD: HOW BLUFFING ABOUT BIAS MAKES RACE RELATIONS WORSE, AN AGE OF PROGRESS? CLASHING TWENTIETH-CENTURY GLOBAL FORCES.

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THE RACE CARD: HOW BLUFFING ABOUT BIAS MAKES RACE RELATIONS WORSE

Richard Thompson Ford

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

349 pp, Notes, Bib, Index, $26.00

AN AGE OF PROGRESS?: CLASHING TWENTIETH-CENTURY GLOBAL FORCES

Walter G. Moss

Anthem Press, 2008

268 pp, Notes, Index, $35.00

The two books under review here provide us with a fascinating look at the notions of social "progress" from a global, historical perspective as well as the nature of race relations in the United States over the past few decades. Specifically, since the recent election of former Illinois Senator Barack Obama as the first African American president of the United States, many scholars, community activists, politicians, world leaders, and just everyday citizens have been grappling with the enormous impact of this historical event based on the concept of racial neutrality and social evolution. Thus, in a way, both authors traverse various well-known and obscure historical territories that will help us understand this seminal moment with much more clarity.

In The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse, Richard Thompson Ford, the George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford School of Law, presents an intriguing, sophisticated, and somewhat legalistic analysis on how to distinguish when there "are complaints of prejudice valid...

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