May 28, 1999

A Fledgling Democracy Confronts the Legacies of Racism

By NEIL FOLEY

I teach and write about racial ideologies in the United States, particularly as they shape the lives of Latinos, black people, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, and so I was both pleased and surprised to receive an invitation from the United States Information Agency to give a series of lectures in Guatemala last fall. Why Guatemala? I wondered. Why me?

The program-development officer for U.S.I.A. told me

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