Peter I. Rose, a sociologist and writer, is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute at Smith College. His many books include The Subject is Race (Oxford University Press, 1968), Seeing Ourselves (Knopf, 1975), Nation of Nations (Random House, 1972), and The Dispossessed: An Anatomy of Exile (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).