Six fresh books worth perusing
You can soothe your intellectual itch with these recent Harvard faculty-authored titles. Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America Princeton University Press, Feb. 2012 By Jennifer L. Hochschild, Vesla M. Weaver, Traci R. Burch Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Jennifer L. Hochschild collaborates with Vesla M. Weaver and Traci R. Burch on this new consideration of race in contemporary America. Not since the 1960s has there been a racial transformation as great as the one the country is currently experiencing. Spurred by forces like immigration and policy changes that promote integration and equality, America’s racial order has above all been altered by youths, whose collective memory includes Hurricane Katrina and Barack Obama’s election. “If transformative forces persist and prevail,” the authors write, “the United States can finally move toward becoming the society that James Madison...