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Civil rights and social wrongs : Black-white relations since World War II
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Civil rights and social wrongs : Black-white relations since World War II

Author: John Higham; Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Higham; Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
ISBN: 0271017090 9780271017099 0271019328 9780271019321
OCLC Number: 36681654
Notes: Revised papers of a symposium presented at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., during Oct., 1994. "Published in association with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies."
Description: viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : a historical perspective / John Higham -- The color line, the dilemma, and the dream : race relations in America at the close of the twentieth century / Lawrence D. Bobo -- The changing meaning of civil rights, 1954-1994 / Lawrence H. Fuchs -- Making sense of the affirmative action debate / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Residential segregation and persistent urban poverty / Douglas S. Massey -- Multiculturalism and a new America / Nathan Glazer -- Our pluralistic common culture / Diane Ravitch -- Race and civil society : a democratic conversation / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem -- A meditation on the meaning of "diversity" in the United States / Gerald Early -- Coda : three reconstructions / John Higham.
Responsibility: edited by John Higham.
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