More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States

(New York University Press) This book compels readers to think about how racial inequality is perpetuated in a society that claims to be post-racial. Perry asserts that the United States is in a phase of racism that is “post-intentional” – neither based on intentional discrimination of the past, nor drawing upon biological concepts of race – and demonstrates how this new racism works. Perry is a professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton.