Integration or separation? : a strategy for racial equality / Roy L. Brooks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon), 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Black nationalism--United States.

Black nationalism.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xi, 348 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.

Summary:

Integrated in principle, segregated in fact: is this the legacy of fifty years of "progress" in American racial policy? Is there hope for much better? Roy L. Brooks, a distinguished professor of law and a writer on matte rs of race and civil rights, says with frank clarity what few will admit -- integration hasn't worked and possibly never will. Equally, he casts doubt on the solution that many African-Americans and mainstream whites have advocated: total separation of the races. This book presents Brooks's strategy for a middle way between the increasingly unworkable extremes of integration and separation.

Contents:

I Racial Integration 1

1 Elementary and Secondary Education 5

2 Higher Education 33

3 Housing 47

4 Employment 69

5 Voting 84

6 Why Integration Has Failed 104

II Total Separation 117

7 Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois 125

8 Marcus Garvey 132

9 The Nation of Islam 143

10 Emigration to Liberia 156

11 Black Towns in the United States 168

12 Intra-Racial Conflicts and Racial Romanticism 185

III Limited Separation 189

13 The Case for a Policy of Limited Separation 199

14 Elementary and Secondary Education 214

15 Higher Education 235

16 Cultural Integration within the Community 244

17 Economic Integration within the Community 258

18 Political Power 276.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-337) and index.

OCLC:

34557327