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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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