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"An obsession with pigmentation is even now the curse of our race," says the narrator of Stephen L. Carter's celebrated first novel, "The Emperor of Ocean Park," published in 2002. The line could serve as an epigraph for Carter's new, equally ambitious novel, "New England White" (Knopf; $26.95). Both books are, defiantly, loose baggy monsters, fusing such popular genres as the mystery, the thriller, the academic satire, the domestic family melodrama, and the seriocomic social novel; both are meditations on race by sharp-eyed citizens of the "darker nation" uneasily dwelling within the "paler nation"--in the fictitious New England university town of Elm Harbor and its ...