Dr. Pamela Brewer talks with F. Michael Higginbotham, author of Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America and the Wilson H. Elkins Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He is also the author of Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions. "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 Hussein Obama?