With dual roles as a professor of religion and chair of Princeton's Center for African-American Studies, Glaude opens conversations about race and the black American experience across the curriculum. His book is an impassioned argument-drawn from history, and the disparities of the present-that the country needs a new vision of democracy, one that moves beyond civil rights-era politics, beyond the premature claims of a post-racial society, and beyond the complacencies that have allowed inequality to become ingrained.