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Not according to Studs Terkel and the dissonant multiracial chorus in his newest book, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (New Press; 403 pages; $24.95). Even the liberal whites in its pages admit to deepening fears and animosity toward the growing urban black underclass...
The same can be said for the growing class of undereducated white youth, a threatening prospect considering how cloudy and volatile are the thoughts and feelings Terkel assembles. This is understandable. Race itself is an irrational subject, which may be "the American obsession" but is not an American invention. The...
He's far from alone. In most of the public debates surrounding America's relationship with Israel, the question is framed in a way that focuses on what Israel, or American Jews who support Israel, must do to retain America's respect. The only other place we have seen such...
Eventually, visiting Williamsburg became an annual pilgrimage, a springtime ritual that created and then fed an obsession with all things colonial and Virginian.
Clare's brassiere obsession is not unusual. I once observed a group of female acquaintances on the T. Coyly removing their Victoria's Secret purchases from their shopping bags, they titillated the whole train with a exhibition of low-cut red nighties.