'The End of Blackness': American Skin
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/books/review/01EARLYT.html?pagewanted=all&position=
By GERALD EARLY
Published: February 1, 2004
With the publication of "The End of Blackness," a book not only about
white racism but about black people's response to it, Debra J.
Dickerson joins a growing and varied class of black public
intellectuals that includes people like John McWhorter, Bell Hooks,
Michael Eric Dyson, Patricia Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Shelby
Steele, Thulani Davis, Stanley Crouch, Greg Tate, Ellis Cose and Brent
Staples. Their views are sufficiently different that they might be
said to represent distinct factions among African-Americans and, no
less relevant, speak to distinct factions of educated whites.
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