Books, Arts & Manners: Who’s a Bigot?

The Scar of Race, by Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza (Belknap/Harvard, 212 pp., $18.95)

ARE most white Americans still racist? Do conservatives oppose social-welfare programs because conservatives are prejudiced against blacks? Is opposition to affirmative action based on a subtle form of racism? Is the American creed of classical economic liberalism merely a white European racist ideology? Most radicals and a good many present-day liberals would answer yes to several of these questions. However, as Sniderman and Piazza demonstrate in their well-crafted book, the correct answer to all of them is a resounding no.

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The Scar of Race, by Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza (Belknap/Harvard, 212 pp., $18.95)

ARE most white Americans still racist? Do conservatives oppose social-welfare programs because conservatives are prejudiced against blacks? Is opposition to affirmative action based on a subtle form of racism? Is the American creed of classical economic liberalism merely a white European racist ideology? Most radicals and a good many present-day liberals would answer yes to several of these questions. However, as Sniderman and Piazza demonstrate in their well-crafted book, the correct answer to all of them is a resounding no.