Is there some reason that you believe you ought to be able to find a protagonist in this book? In general, you would not say that a non-fiction work (especially one that is mainly statistical as opposed to, say, a biography) has a protagonist.
In a work of fiction, the protagonist is the hero -- the person that the reader or audience is supposed to identify with. Is there a person in this work that you are meant to sympathize with? That's how I would look for a protagonist.
I suppose you could say that blacks in general are the protagonist. Or that the individuals whose stories are told are the protagonists. But I fail to see how you could identify an individual who is the protagonist for the whole book.
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