Transcending the Color Line by sociologist and professor Bobby E. Mills PhD represents a philosophical attempt to make sense out of American black collective experience. This collection of essays does not reflect traditional sociological perspectives and methodological considerations. Instead the query is How do we live More importantly what are we willing to sacrifice in order to live the way we say we want to live In other words these essays dig deeper to the moral and spiritual issues that lie beneath the more obvious sociological ones. Invariably the search for moral understanding and spiritual meaning is neither easy nor popular. Yet it is the abstract empirical amoral and apolitical character of traditional sociology that has all but rendered it irrelevant to the resolution of contemporary social ills. The biased theoretical assumptions of the scientific method i.e. abstract empiricism are the social basis for the collective bias otherwise known as the illusion of value neutrality. This collective cultural bias is the social foundation for institutional racism sexism theological dogmatism i.e. denominationalism and above all authoritarianism. Indeed every ism is a schism and schisms divide. Our eitheror logic fosters cultural extremism rather than a universal perspective on humanity. By digging deep to the true source of our sociological and leadership issues these essays not only call black and white individuals accountable to the dysfunction present in our shared social experience but inspire all people to transcend the color line and become part of the solution.