White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era

A look at the state of black and white race relations in twenty-first-century America, from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Content of Our Character.

"Not unlike some of Ralph Ellison's or Richard Wright's best work. White Guilt, a serious meditation on vital issues, deserves a wide readership." —Cleveland Plain Dealer

In 1955 the killers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted because they were white. Forty years later, despite the strong DNA evidence against h...