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Contends that historians and intellectuals failed to understand the difference between race and ethnicity, which has in turn impaired their ability to understand who Black people are in America. It argues that Black Americans are to be distinguished from other categories of black people in the USA.

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Neither American history nor American society anticipated, sanctioned, or encouraged the development of either Black intellectuals or a Black middle class.

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A critical black history is itself, Wright contends, a device to evaluate American history in a critical manner, to get into the subject more deeply, and to adduce deeper knowledge and truths about it.

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This work offers a new discussion of racism in America that focuses on how white people have been affected by their own racism and how it impacts upon relations between blacks and whites.