Race is once again a leading issue in American politics. The clock has been turned back on the progress of the 1960s, and again hostility, resentment and racial conflict threaten to divide the nation. How do ordinary Americans view these changes? How do attitudes towards race affect their daily lives, their relations to their fellow Americans, their images of themselves? This book aims to bring out the full complexity of the thoughts and emotions of both blacks and whites on these and other related questions. Amongst almost 100 Americans interviewed are preachers and street punks, college students and Klansmen, members of mixed-race marriages, and the nephew of the founder of apartheid.