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...Ellis Cose's Color-Blind: Seeing Beyond Race in a Race-Obsessed World (HarperCollins; 260 pages; $24) is an attempt to break out of what the author calls "the well-worn rut into which racial reflections and conversations commonly fall." A pit of conceptual quicksand would be more like...
...case of Texaco is only anomalous because the statements and actions of its racist top brass are now public knowledge. As journalist Ellis Cose proved in The Rage of a Privileged Class, black employees throughout corporate America often must struggle against subtle glass ceilings as well as outright racial hostility. The solution to this dilemma may well be more--not less--affirmative action. Without explicit and enforced preference programs, black advancement may be stifled at token levels...
...educated in the Ivy League, has climbed high in his profession. But precisely the reasons for which he should feel self-respect, airtight reasons for a white man, raise confusing interior questions about his identity as a black man. Or so I surmise. Hence the anger. Ellis Cose wrote a book called The Rage of a Privileged Class about black executives and law partners who earn half a million dollars or more a year and feel sorry for themselves. My friend is a flashing electrical display of privileged rage...
ESSAY Ellis Cose argues that quotas are a smoke screen...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Robert Ball, Jesse Birnbaum, Patricia Blake, Gerald Clarke, Jay Cocks, Ellis Cose, John Elson, Pico Iyer, Leon Jaroff, Marguerite Johnson, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Richard Schickel, John Skow, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias, Michael Walsh, Denise Worrell...