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Civil Rights and Social Wrongs: Black-White Relations Since World War II
Contributor(s): Higham, John (Editor)
ISBN: 0271017090     ISBN-13: 9780271017099
Publisher: Penn State University Press
OUR PRICE:   $60.34  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: August 1997
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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
 
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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).