A discussion of whether racism is permanent and how those involved in anti-racism work continue despite the depressing state of race relations in the United States.
November/December 1993 issue of Poverty & Race
We asked a sample of PRRAC Board members, Social Science Advisory Board members and grantees to submit short essays, to respond to the position — put forth by Derrick Bell, Richard Delgado, Charles Washington, John Calmore and others, in various forms, and buttressed by Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton’s recent research on “American apartheid” — that racism is a permanent, non-eradicable feature of American life; and to provide some personal insight into what keeps them going in their anti-racism work, given the depressing, and probably deteriorating, state of race relations in the United States.
