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Dissecting the dream: civil rights and race relations in the United States

It is now almost thirty years since Martin Luther King delivered his celebrated,' I have a dream' oration from the steps of the Lincoln Monument in Washington. Those three decades have witnessed an extraordinary proliferation of scholarly and popular works dealing with the civil rights movement and race relations in the United States. Historians, political scientists, sociologists, biographers, cultural critics, journalists and memoirists have all contributed to this vast and swelling literature. They have examined the changing configuration of African-American 'dreams' and the various strategies by which blacks and their white allies have attempted to realize them. They have also sought to explain the persistent habitual and systemic racism in American life which continues to mock those efforts. Without exception, the books here under review make valuable contributions to the civil rights and race relations canon: indeed, two of them, Walter Jackson's, Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience and Joel Perlmann's Ethnic Differences are among the very best that it can currently boast.