Lage Kosten One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race – Scott Malcomson

Why has a nation founded upon precepts of freedom and universal humanity continually produced, through its preoccupation with race, a divided and constrained populace? Scott Malcomson’s search for an answer took him across the country–to the Cherokee Nation, an all-black town, and a white supremacist enclave in Oklahoma–back though the tangled red-white-and-black history of America from colonial times onward, and to his own childhood in racially fractured Oakland, California. By not only recounting our sh…