Our Future

Abstract

This chapter concludes by offering a specific diagnosis of contemporary American conundrums about race as well as specific constructive suggestions for addressing those conundrums. Paul Krugman, David Brooks and Sheryl Cashin are prominent characters in the discussion of this last chapter. The suggestions require us to move beyond fundamentalist, Enlightenment ideologies of society and politics and to embrace fully the indigenous intellectual traditions of our American world. These indigenous traditions enable a move beyond ideological opposition into a brotherhood and sisterhood of citizenship.