The Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class and Racism in the United States.(Review)

By Mark Nathan Cohen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 320p. $27.50.

Tony Affigne, Providence College

For the most part, political science has held itself well back from the cutting edge of race theory. As a general rule, political scientists have adopted minimalist approaches to explicating the racial upheavals of recent decades. Perhaps we find it easier to squeeze "new" racial variables into familiar equations developed from earlier, whiter generations of data than to reconsider our basic assumptions. We have left most of the really hard thinking about ...

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