<div>The acclaimed work that debunks our myths and false assumptions about race in America<br><br>Maurice Berger grew up hypersensitized to race in the charged environment of New York City in the sixties. His father was a Jewish liberal who worshiped Martin Luther King, Jr.; his mother a dark-skinned Sephardic Jew who hated black people. Berger himself was one of the few white kids in his Lower East Side housing project.<br><br>Berger's unusual experience--and his determination to examine the subject of race for its multiple and intricate meanings--makes <i>White Lies</i> a fresh and startling book.<br><br>Berger has become a passionate observer of race matters, searching out the subtle and not-so-subtle manifestations of racial meaning in everyday life. In <i>White Lies</i>, he encourages us to reckon with our own complex and often troubling opinions about race. The result is an uncommonly honest and affecting look at race in America today--free of cant, surprisingly entertaining, unsettled and unsettling.<br></div>