An Impossible Dream?

An Impossible Dream? builds a bridge between seemingly opposing stances on racial integration: integration as an essential component of racial justice and integration as unwise and potentially harmful. By bringing together political theory constitutional law and critical race theory Stanley shows that much of this apparent disagreement stems from different understandings of the very meaning of integration. Stanley argues that true integration includes both internal psychic conversion and redistribution of power and places a large responsibility on white America to demonstrate its willingness and capacity to make sacrifices and to confront its own privilege.