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The African-American predicament

Author: Christopher H Foreman
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book examines the vexing reality of racial conditions in America today: improved overall, but far more complicated than they used to seem, and in important respects continually depressing. Thirteen essays - by some of the most highly respected experts in the nation - present thoughtful, and often competing, assessments of African American progress and of the prospects for its further enhancement." "The book  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher H Foreman
ISBN: 0815728808 9780815728801
OCLC Number: 41649563
Description: x, 216 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. The predicament --
Rough road to racial uplift / Christopher H. Foreman Jr. --
Two nations of Black America / Henry Louis Gates Jr. --
Legacy of slavery / Glenn C. Loury --
pt. 2. Affirmative action --
Black progress / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom --
Affirmative action / Orlando Patterson --
pt. 3. Education --
Black-white test score gap / Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips --
Race, education, and equal opportunity / Linda Darling-Hammond --
Vouchers and central city schools / Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene --
pt. 4. Community --
Impediments to integration / Nathan Glazer --
Black churches and the inner-city poor / John J. DiIulio, Jr. --
pt. 5. Politics --
American racial and ethnic politics in the twenty-first century / Jennifer L. Hochschild --
Unsteady march toward racial equality / Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith --
Moral basis of a color-blind politics / Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines.
Responsibility: Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., editor.

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This anthology examines the vexing realities of racial conditions in America at the end of the 20th century. Thirteen essays present thoughtful - and at times conflicting - assessments of  Read more...

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