Racial progress and racist violence arrive simultaneously for Black Americans.

Evidence

It is ironic that racism first wounded me at the very moment my family experienced the fulfillment of the American dream—a big house on the “white side” of town. It was a reminder of the limits of dreaming in this country: for us, the ugliness of America was always just beneath the surface of our supposed racial progress. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 137

Categorization

• DEFINE: Ties the memoir moment to Glaude’s core claim that racial progress is always shadowed by the value gap — an early, personal anchor for his central concept.