The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy

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By Michael G. Hanchard *91

Published May 24, 2018

The increasing xenophobia in America and Europe has some worried that democracy is threatened, but The Spectre of Race (Princeton University Press) argues that exclusion in the political realm has been a part of democracies stretching back to Ancient Greece. Michael G. Hanchard *91 urges readers to question how good our Western democracies are if these policies are really in place and always have been.

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