RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Nonfiction Civil rights in a petri dish RACE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A Quest, a Study, a Call to Action By Max Klau 384 pp. Jossey-Bass Reviewed by Sala Wyman Developmental psychologist Max Klau begins by asking: What might we learn by carefully observing multiple civil rights movements in a petri dish? Deeply embedded in our personal lives are beliefs about race, the order of things and decisions about whether we conform to those beliefs—or not. Klau creates a social petri dish through examining the complex systems of power that continue to feed historically created social divides and are exacerbated by current political rhetoric and actions. In a sense, he confirms what many of us already know. It’s going to take a lot more than conversations to dismantle systems that create social inequality. A former Vice President of Leadership Development at City Year (an Americorp program) and currently the Chief Program Officer at the New Politics Leadership Academy , Klau’s commit...