Brian — nice post and interesting. I am not familiar with the works you indicated, but I am quite familiar which teaching about discrimination, racial and class. 32 years of high school Engish and hisory. As for Ms. Rice’s remarks on ;not needing the Civil Right Movement’ because it ‘the change would have come’ anyway — I will have to reasearch that myself. I do not see any citation. I guess I find it hard to believe that she would say something that …blind and naive. But nothing that comes from some Republicans surprises me now.