A unique critical overview of how racism has changed over time - and how it has not. Asking such questions as: if everyone is against racism now, why does awareness of race have such a deep, if hidden, hold on our consciousness, institutions and politics? Why does racial thinking still have such a profound impact on the opportunities for blacks and whites? Hadjor shows how racial thinking continues to permeate and define America as a nation and calls for the deracialising of American socio-politics in order to achieve equal opportunity for all.