With his previous book, The Rage of a Privileged Class, the author offered a look at the simmering anger of the black middle class. Some sixteen years later, he has discovered this group is much less angry and even optimistic about its future, despite a flagging economy and a deeply divided body politic. In this new book he examines these new attitudes, the decline of black rage, as well as the demise of white guilt and the intergenerational shifts...