In "The Washington Post," Julius Lester praised Richard
Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and
Race as free of cant and ideology. . . . an excellent starting
place for the national discussion about race we so desperately
need. "The New York Times" has hailed Delgado as a pioneer in the
study of race and law, and the "Los Angeles Times" has compared his
storytelling style to Plato's Dialogues.
In The Coming Race War?, Delgado turns his attention to the
American racial landscape in the wake of the mid-term elections in
1994. Our political and racial topography has been radically
altered. Affirmative action is being rolled back, immigrants
continue to be targeted as the source of economic woes, and race is
increasingly downplayed as a source of the nation's problems. Legal
obstacles to racial equality have long been removed, we are told,
so what's the problem?
And yet, the plight of the urban poor grows worse. The number of
young black men in prison continues to exceed those in college.
Informal racial privilege remains entrenched and systemic. Where,
asks Delgado in this new volume, will this lead? Enlisting his
fictional counterpart, Rodrigo Crenshaw, to untangle the
complexities of America's racial future, Delgado explores merit and
affirmative action; the nature of empathy and, more commonly, false
empathy; and the limitations of legal change. Warning of the
dangers of depriving the underprivileged of all hope and
opportunity, Delgado gives us a dark future in which an indignant
white America casts aside, once and for all, the spirit of the
civil rights movement, with disastrous results.
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