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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. The rough road to racial uplift / Christopher H. Foreman Jr. ; The two nations of Black America / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; The legacy of slavery / Glenn C. Loury --
pt. 2. Affirmative action. Black progress / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom ; Affirmative action / Orlando Patterson --
pt. 3. Education. The 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 ; The unsteady march toward racial equality / Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith ; The moral basis of a color-blind politics / Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines.
Responsibility: Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., editor.

Abstract:

"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 concludes with a discussion of the feasibility of "reaching beyond race" to build stronger political coalitions for racially progressive policies."--BOOK JACKET.

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