Our Hidden Conversations

I wasn't familiar with Norris's race card project until my wife recommended this book. It is actually extraordinary to witness average Americans trying to distill their experience with race and racism into six words, and the people quoted here have come up with an astonishing variety of submissions. Norris has organized the submissions into themes and done extended conversations with many of the people who made submissions. Those deeper conversations round out the stories behind the six words they submitted, and chart the complexity of race in America. The end result is that we get both the blunt assessment of Americans on this issue, and the life stories that led them to their conclusions.