Book Review - The End of Anger - By Ellis Cose - NYTimes.com

Book Review - The End of Anger - By Ellis Cose - NYTimes.com: ...In “The End of Anger,” Cose confronts a more complex and at times contradictory America. Drawing on a series of interviews with former participants in A Better Chance — a program that helps talented, underprivileged students attend elite prep schools — and with African-American alumni of the Harvard Business School, Cose tracks changing race relations in the post-civil-rights era. He finds that the glass ceiling has been shattered and the anger and resentment that seemed a permanent feature of the black experience in the 1980s and ’90s have yielded to a new optimism, which has survived the recession and the racist invective of the Tea Party. This isn’t simply irrational exuberance — the afterglow of Obama-mania. Instead, Cose sketches a picture of steady historical and generational change in which growing optimism among blacks is a natural response to waning racial bigotry among whites.