| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.1

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Book Review

A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn. By Craig Steven Wilder. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xiv, 325 pp. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-231-11907-0.)

Craig Steven Wilder powerfully demonstrates the persistence and pervasiveness of race or, more accurately, the power of whites continually to recast racial oppression and to envelope blacks in an all-encompassing subordination through different historical periods and social relations in Brooklyn, New York. Wielding a wide assortment of sources, Wilder articulately argues that the historic and current predicaments of blacks in Brooklyn are a consequence of the confluence between whites' economic, political, social, and cultural power and race. . . .

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