ABSTRACT
On the Martin Luther King holiday, January 17, 2000, some 46,000 protesters, black and non-black, marched in downtown Columbia, South Carolina, protesting the flying of the Confederate battle flag atop the South Carolina state house. Since the days of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, no crowd this large had gathered to protest what has become one of the nation's major symbols of white privilege. The march was a loud cry against racism. This book probes the nature of certain cases that many have thought to be examples of white racism. Looking at these cases, it examines sets and series of events that show what many white Americans believe and feel and how they sometimes act in regard to African American men, women, and children. The book looks at who these whites are and makes a distinction between active participants in racialized actions, those who are acolytes, and those who are but passive participants.
