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And I had the opportunity to respond to several thoughtful reflections on the book thirty-seven years after its initial publication.

In sharp contrast to many earlier studies, the articles in the Ethnic and Racial Studies symposium include a careful discussion of the two major underlying themes of the book— 1 Ethnciity effect of fundamental economic and political shifts on the changing relative importance of race and class in the life trajectories of African Americans—now extended to all US racial and ethnic groups; and 2 the swing in the concentration of racial conflict from the Reflection On Race And Ethnicity sector to the sociopolitical order—seen in the growing racial divide in US politics, and the conflicts involving race, policing, and the criminal justice system. Rather, in comparing the contemporary situation of African Americans to conditions in the past, their diverging experiences along class lines and the shifting concentration of racial tension from the economic sector to the sociopolitical order indicate that race, although still Ethnkcity salient, has a lesser effect today than economic class in determining life trajectories.

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