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Reed reviews Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society by Michael K. Brown, Martin Carnoy, Elliott Currie, Troy Duster, David B. Oppenheimer, Marjorie M. Shultz, and David Wellman.

Proposes free higher education for all US citizens, modeled after the post-World War II program for veterans, in light of increasing costs of colleges and universities since the 1970s, as a progressive vision and organizing point to counter right-wing attacks on public welfare policies.

Foreword / by Barbara J. Fields -- Introduction -- Quotidian life in the 1950s and 1960s -- The order in flux and being in flux within the order -- "Race" and the new order taking shape within the old -- The new order and the obsolescence of "passing" -- Echoes, scar tissue, and historicity.