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Apology for Archie
Burns, Haywood | December 3, 1990 issue

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The article focuses on the book titled "The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York," by Jim Sleeper. The book begins with a brief history of race and politics, emphasizing postwar years and especially recent ones. Sleeper views the New York, experience through various prisms, housing, welfare, schools, criminal justice, electoral politics and concludes that the fight for racial justice since 1960s has been waged in the wrong way. He thinks the race card has been overplayed and activists have distorted the nature of the problem.

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CLOSEST of Strangers, The (Book); SLEEPER, Jim; RACE; POLITICS, Practical; RACE discrimination; POLITICAL activists; NEW York (State); UNITED States
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