This book demonstrates how ideological dogmatism could be potentially dangerous in policy-making processes. Specifically, it considers Thomas Sowell’s constant disparagement of African American culture on the one hand, and his call for an immediate termination of preferential policies on the other as an intent to penalize a community that is already trapped in a double bind where the egalitarian promises of civic republicanism conflict with denigration and denial. As the book shows, this is eventually represented as an impending threat to the very ideal of an ethnically integrated society. Sami Nighaoui received a doctorate in English from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Manouba, Tunisia. He is a Steinhardt School of Education alumnus and holder of a certificate in Educational Leadership from New York University. He co-founded the American Studies Research Group at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities in Kairouan, Tunisia, and has published several articles on race relations in the United States. He is currently teaching American Cultural Studies at the Higher Institute of Languages at Carthage University, Tunisia.