| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Richard B. Pierce. Polite Protest: The Political Economy of Race in Indianapolis, 1920–1970. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2005. Pp. x, 155. $39.95.

This book focuses on three spheres of African American life in Indianapolis: schools, housing, and jobs. In five essays, Richard B. Pierce explores why Indianapolis' black community adopted a politics of negotiation and incrementalism, and why the city's substantial African American community could never translate its numbers and institutional development into success in the political arena. Some readers will find his answers less than convincing because of the book's narrow focus, but most will recognize that Pierce poses important questions, provides careful research, and approaches his sources with an open mind.

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