Bottom pig

"Bottom pig is a key to tribal rituals, whiteness that gets rid of blacks, blackness that gets rid of whites-- and a key to an integrated America too sobering to seem likely or possible. In the realm of the possible-so-far, our achievement of desegregation, a "color-blind" society, the author would characterize as simple blindness, compounded by denial of blindness. From this departure, whether or not to remedy the present becomes a kind of inverted answering of the question of who should inherit" -- dust jacket flap.