Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II Contributor(s): Higham, John (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0271017090 ISBN-13: 9780271017099 Publisher: Penn State University Press OUR PRICE: $60.34 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 1997 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Political Science | Civil Rights |
Dewey: 327.73 |
LCCN: 97008568 |
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.25" W x 9.42" (1.09 lbs) 232 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1940's - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The persistence of racial inequality in a democratic society may be the gravest problem confronting the United States. It has surely been the most intractable. Yet the torrent of scholarship and comment unleashed in recent years by the question of race provides a general reader with little overall understanding of the solutions attempted and the resulting outcomes. These essays by ten leading scholars offer the most compact comprehensive appraisal we have of how the modern civil rights movement arose, what changes it brought about in relationships between blacks and whites, and how it led to affirmative action, to multiculturalism, and eventually to the present stalemate and discontent. Contributors are Christopher Beem, Lawrence Bobo, Erwin Chemerinsky, Gerald Early, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Lawrence H. Fuchs, Nathan Glazer, John Higham, Douglas S. Massey, and Diane Ravitch. |
Contributor Bio(s): Higham, John: - John Higham is Professor of History Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University and a past president of the Organization of American Historians. His books include Send These to Me: Immigrants in Urban America (1983) and Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (1986). |