Ghosts of Jim Crow
F. Michael Higginbotham shares his views as author of Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America.
"When America inaugurated its first African American president, in 2009, many wondered if the country had finally become a "post-racial" society. Was this the dawning of a new era, in which America, a nation nearly severed in half by slavery, and whose racial fault lines are arguably among its most enduring traits, would at last move beyond race with the election of Barack Obama?"