Perhaps the most strident of them is Cantle, a British community organizer who became famous for launching the British policy turn, after a wave of race riots in several northern English towns in the summer of 2001, from multiculturalism to 'community cohesion'.
A wave of race riots in the teens and '20s were particularly devastating.
There is a certain wave of race (and the corollary of racialism/racism) denialism that ebbs and flows in some spaces.
But as we collectively assess what happened, it's important that we don't go for the latest wave of race and gender deniers who use any opportunity to miscast things like it's a well-thought out analysis.
America saw a wave of race-related unrest only last week over the decision not to indict another white police officer who had shot dead a young black man in Ferguson, Missouri.
So, like all of his commissioner compatriots, Prezza will bow to the inevitable, and unleash fresh waves of vicious race war upon the North East.
As waves of rebels raced off to war, I could see the country's future in their eyes.
A wave of bloody race riots crackled like a chain of firecrackers in Northern cities, mainly victimizing blacks who had fled Southern poverty to take war industry jobs.
Far less well known, as the historian Phillip Payne has noted, is what happened the year before, when a mob of armed white Marion residents drove more than 200 black families out of town, one of a wave of postwar race riots that served to segregate the industrialized north.
Lehane, whose previous novels include "Mystic River" and "Gone, Baby, Gone," sets his latest at the end of the First World War, as waves of immigration, uneasy race relations, and agitation over labor issues culminate in a police strike in Boston.
