Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.