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A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that threatens our democracy Americans have prided ourselves on how far we've come from slavery, lynching, and legal segregation-measuring ourselves by incremental progress instead of by how far we have to go. But fifty years after the last meaningful effort toward civil rights, the US remains overwhelmingly segregated and unjust. Our current solutions-diversity, representation, and desegregation-are not enough. As acclaimed writer Calvin Baker argues in this bracing, necessary book, we first need to envision a society no longer defined by the structures of race in order to create one. The only meaningful remedy is integration: the full self-determination and participation of all African-Americans, and all other oppressed groups, in every facet of national life.
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Baker's first three novels, Naming the New World, Once Two Heroes, and Dominion, have been brilliantly acclaimed as among the best works of fiction by an American writer in the past decade. He has taught at Columbia University and the University of Leipzig, Germany. His long-awaited fourth novel, Grace, will be published in 2015. Photo credit: Henry Leutwyler
