Half a century since the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal’s seminal work on race in America, this book contributes to a fresh understanding of this dilemma by viewing the issues of race as they are now. ‘This extremely important book has a number of strengths: most important, its interdisciplinary nature; its methodologically sophisticated and innovative research; and its raising of new perspectives on race, perspectives that should challenge stale truisms and cliches and stimulate new research. The papers are uniformly strong and provocative, and many should engender a healthy dose of controversy. The book represents an important shift in perspectives, both theoretical and methodological, in the study of race and American politics.’ Kathleen McGraw, SUNY Stony Brook