Andrew Hacker Two Nations Summary

Two Nations is a book about the U.S. and about the racial tensions between Caucasians and African Americans. The book’s author, Andrew Hacker, goes into detail on how the two races conflict has been growing since blacks were first brought to America and enslaved. He goes through history, education, racism, crime, among other things to help break down the racial tension between blacks and whites.
Andrew Hacker is an American political scientist and public intellectual. He used statistic figures from websites and printed reports to support his information. He wrote the book to show the conditions that keeps blacks and whites far apart in their search for the american dream. He also states that we are to still of fear sensed by Tocqueville still haunts us. He feared Despotism, a form of government where a single entity rules with absolute power, such as an individual or group of people.
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And in over half of these households, the mother has never been married. Compared to white mothers, black women running households is common with 53.5%, while white mothers have a 19.1%. Blacks have a higher unemployment rate than whites. Most of the highly paid black workers in America are athletes and entertainers. In education, black student enrollment in flagship schools are highest at Alabama with a 14.5%, and predominant black campuses such as Alabama State have 90.1%. He mentions how we always hear of “black crime” but not “white crime”. Statistics show that under perpetrators to be black and the victim tends to be white. Statistics also show that rapist perpetrators tend to be white and the victim tends to be white. Also, statistics show that black tend to be common robbery on white victims. In prison there tend to be 36.1% white inmates, 46.3% black inmates, and 17.6% of other