City column on race relations in Portland. The author, a black Bowdoin Colleg

City column on race relations in Portland. The author, a black Bowdoin College professor who recently moved from Los Angeles, discovered that poor white men look to bond with him, assuming they share a resentment of wealthy white communities; and black women say black men don\u27t talk to them. Despite Portland\u27s reputation as a haven for black men, the author faults the liberal establishment for failing to make a meaningful cross-cultural community