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Document Type: | Book |
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Orlando Patterson |
ISBN: | 1887178619 9781887178617 188717897X 9781887178976 |
OCLC Number: | 45253661 |
Description: | xi, 233 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The paradoxes of integration -- The moral and intellectual crisis of liberal Afro-American advocacy -- The moral crisis of conservative "racial" advocacy -- For whom the bell curves : the intellectual and cultural contradictions of genetic determinism -- Why we still need affirmative action -- Conclusion : what is to be done. |
Responsibility: | Orlando Patterson. |
Abstract:
In this provocative new book, sociologist Orlando Patterson takes on the intractable dilemma of race in late 20th-century America. Using current demographic research, Patterson exposes common misperceptions about the lives and experiences of black and white Americans, misperceptions that are hampering the success of integration.
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