political aspects

Discusses race relations in a cultural environment that, while politically correct and legally desegregated, cultivates and exacerbates racial paranoia while more blatant forms of social discrimination fade, and suggests ways to fight racial inequality by acknowledging duplicitous inter-racial dialogues that exist.

Argues that the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly the period after 1965, laid the foundations for Barack Obama's 2009 presidential inauguration, highlighting the policies, people, and events that led to a new wave of African-American leadership in the United States.

Examines the relationship between President Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the aftermath of John Kennedy's assassination and in relation to the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.