{"id":3479,"date":"2022-04-08T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/18.217.136.120\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2022-04-08T13:05:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T18:05:42","slug":"jim-sleepers-washington-post-book-reviews-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jimsleeper.com\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Jim Sleeper&#8217;s Washington Post book reviews on race."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1996\/03\/31\/the-content-of-our-character\/b9017576-e04c-4546-baeb-75fa18ef14e5\/\"><strong>C. Eric Lincoln<em>, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America<\/em><\/strong> and <strong>Benjamin DeMott, \u2018<em>The Trouble With Friendship: Why Americans Can\u2019t Think Straight About Race;<\/em> <\/strong>and<strong> Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, <em>The Future of the Race<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/lifestyle\/1995\/09\/14\/witness-to-a-nightmarish-divide\/f8fe805e-f880-4c70-8ffd-e9f06c6a6daa\/\">Mike Kelly, <em>Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1991\/06\/09\/the-fall-of-marion-barry\/ee19c691-53f9-4df5-8e42-8af02e8d55a4\/\">Jonathan I.Z. Agronsky, <em>Marion Barry: The Politics of Race<\/em><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/2002\/02\/03\/the-reds-and-the-blacks\/65eb6245-c4de-4f1a-8701-d43b5277cb7f\/\">Thomas Borstelmann, <em>The Cold War and the Color Line<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1991\/10\/27\/where-have-all-the-democrats-gone\/0bc58463-4b1f-46ff-9d2c-bdaf8daef413\/\">Peter Brown, <em>Minority Party: Why the Democrats Face Defeat in 1992 and Beyond<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1992\/03\/08\/his-honor-the-mayor\/735c4c98-a048-46f9-a9e9-55fe55207249\/\">Gary Rivlin, <em>Fire on the Prairie: Chicago\u2019s Harold Washington and the Politics of Race<\/em> <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1995\/07\/30\/the-uses-of-fear\/91a2b8c7-2c2b-49b6-b1a3-7cda11d235c9\/\">David C. Anderson, <em>The Politics of Hysteria: How the Willie Horton Case Changed American Justice<\/em>\u00a0<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/style\/longterm\/books\/reviews\/comingracewar.htm\">Carl T. Rowan, <em>The Coming Race War in America: A Wake-up Call\u00a0 <\/em>and Richard Delgado, <em>The Coming Race War and Other Apocalyptic Tales of America After Affirmative Action and Welfare<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/entertainment\/books\/1996\/06\/02\/toward-the-mountaintop\/cabfbdd8-e14a-44ee-965f-a551d44cfc4c\/\">Marshall Frady, <em>Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C. Eric Lincoln, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America and Benjamin DeMott, \u2018The Trouble With Friendship: Why Americans Can\u2019t Think Straight About Race; and Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West, The Future of the Race Mike Kelly, Color Lines: The Troubled Dreams of Racial Harmony in an American Town\u00a0\u00a0 Jonathan I.Z. 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