White Nationalism, Black Interests: Conservative Public Policy
and the Black Community. By Ronald W. Walters. Detroit: Wayne
State University Press, 2003. 360p. $49.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.
Ronald W. Walters dislikes the direction that race relations have
taken in the present-day United States. In his book, he portrays race
relations as a war between the radical conservative wing of the
Republican Party and blacks. It goes without saying which group has
been losing. It is a story told quite starkly with few nuances or
nagging caveats—as the title suggests. The reader feels
immediately the depth of Walters's anguish, and the strength of
his argument builds as he lays out example after example.