February 25, 2000

We Need New and Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity

By MANNING MARABLE

When Nelson Mandela was elected president of a newly democratic South Africa in 1994, an entire period of racial history came dramatically to an end. Since the 1960's, the United States has witnessed the rise of an affluent African-American middle class and the dismantling of the last vestiges of legal segregation. In Europe, growing numbers of ethnic and racial minorities have had an impact on governments and political parties on both the left and the right. Such

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