Mack on "Representing the Race"

An interview of Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law, about his recently published book, Representing the Race, appears on "The Browser."  In it, Professor Mack explains:

Representing the Race is about the paradoxical nature of the demand that was continually made of these lawyers. Both blacks and whites demanded that they be representative of their race – resemble them and act like them – but at the same time that they be unlike their race, able to speak to the white community and navigate institutions of power. It's a demand that is still made of prominent African Americans as different from one another as Clarence Thomas and Barack Obama.