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" A] collection of scholars has] released a monumental study called A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society. It offers detailed evidence of the progress our nation has made in the past 50 years in living up to American ideals. But the study makes clear that our work is far from over." --President Bush Remarks by the president to the National Urban League Conference
The product of a four-year, intensive study by distinguished experts, A Common Destiny presents a clear, readable "big picture" of blacks' position in America. Drawing on historical perspectives and a vast amount of data, the book examines the past 50 years of change and continuity in the status of black Americans. By studying and comparing black and white age cohorts, this volume charts the status of blacks in areas such as education, housing, employment, political participation and family life.

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A must for all libraries, this volume reports the findings of a major national study of racial patterns and concludes that the great gap in white-black conditions in the 1930s-1950s period has recently been narrowed but not closed. The socioeconomic impact of discrimination is carefully recorded: one in three blacks still lives in poverty; the average black family income is 60 of that of whites; most blacks remain segregated in predominantly minority neighborhoods and schools; in spite of some progress, inequality in political participation remains. Accenting opinion polls, the authors show a liberalization of white attitudes on public segregation and discrimination issues. Remarkably, however, the prominent scholars heading the multimillion dollar study behind this report commissioned little data collection on patterns of racial discrimination today. In the report there is no definition of racial discrimination and little citation of the relevant social science literatures. Except for a brief paragraph citing one study, there is no analysis of how blacks are actually treated in contemporary workplaces; discussion of current discriminatory practices in public accommodations is extremely brief. There is also little discussion of the concrete discriminatory practices blacks encounter in the schools, including hundreds of antiblack harassment cases reported at white colleges in recent years. There are numerous omissions: contemporary violence against blacks, including that of current Ku Klux Klan-type groups; the major riots in the 1980s; the racism-fostering actions of national political officials in the 1980s; and the perspective on race in the recent burgeoning black literature. Readers must wait still for a comprehensive report on the state of black America today. -J. R. Feagin, University of Texas at Austin