This record of contemporary thought in America is about the subject of race as a leading social and political issue. The clock has been turned back on the progress of the 1960s, and once again hostility, resentment and racial conflict threaten to divide America. Terkel has compiled numerous interviews to find out: how do ordinary people see these changes, and how do their attitudes towards race affect their daily lives, their relationships, their image of themselves? Studs Terkel has won the Pulitzer Prize. Other books by him include Working and Hard Times.