Whose Fourth of July?: Black Patriotism and Racial Inequality in America (Glenn Loury)

“Tolstoy is mine. Dickens is mine. Newton, Maxwell, and Einstein are mine” ... “Our Americanness is much more important than our blackness” ... Conservatives cannot go back to "business as usual" on race. ... A conservative prescription for persistent racial inequality ... The roots of racial disparity ... Putting police killings of black Americans into perspective ... From white guilt to white backlash ... The “lie” that the American Dream doesn’t apply to blacks ... Black people “must seize equal status” ...