While some historians say the U-S has been moving steadily toward the end of racial discrimination, others say progress towards equality has only occurred in brief periods, with long periods of stagnation and retrenchment in between. Kojo speaks with two scholars about the political and economic progress of race issues in America.

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  • Phillip Klinker Co-author; also Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College. (Pub: University of Chicago Press)
  • William Julius Wilson Author, "The Bridge over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics"; also a MacArthur Prize Fellow; and Lewis P and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. (Pub: University of California Press)

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