The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, by Randall Kennedy (Knopf Doubleday, 336 pp.)
There鈥檚 nothing 鈥減ostracial鈥 about it, argues Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy. Race continues to be a significant issue in the American politics of the Obama era, and Kennedy鈥檚 book analyzes the ways in which it continues to make its presence felt. (August)