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Civil rights and social wrongs : Black-white relations since World War II / edited by John Higham.

Contributor(s): Higham, John, 1920-2003 | Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: viii, 223 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0271017090 (alk. paper)Subject(s): United States -- Race relations -- Congresses | African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses | United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- -- CongressesDDC classification: 327.73 LOC classification: E185.615 | .C584 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : a historical perspective / John Higham -- The color line, the dilemma, and the dream : race relations in America at the close of the twentieth century / Lawrence D. Bobo -- The changing meaning of civil rights, 1954-1994 / Lawrence H. Fuchs -- Making sense of the affirmative action debate / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Residential segregation and persistent urban poverty / Douglas S. Massey -- Multiculturalism and a new America / Nathan Glazer -- Our pluralistic common culture / Diane Ravitch -- Race and civil society : a democratic conversation / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem -- A meditation on the meaning of "diversity" in the United States / Gerald Early -- Coda : three reconstructions / John Higham.

Revised papers of a symposium presented at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., during Oct., 1994.

"Published in association with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : a historical perspective / John Higham -- The color line, the dilemma, and the dream : race relations in America at the close of the twentieth century / Lawrence D. Bobo -- The changing meaning of civil rights, 1954-1994 / Lawrence H. Fuchs -- Making sense of the affirmative action debate / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Residential segregation and persistent urban poverty / Douglas S. Massey -- Multiculturalism and a new America / Nathan Glazer -- Our pluralistic common culture / Diane Ravitch -- Race and civil society : a democratic conversation / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem -- A meditation on the meaning of "diversity" in the United States / Gerald Early -- Coda : three reconstructions / John Higham.

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