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(The failures of) integration : how race and class are undermining the American dream / Sheryll Cashin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cashin, Sheryll.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Equality--United States.
- Equality.
- United States.
- Segregation--United States.
- Segregation.
- Minorities--United States--Social conditions.
- Minorities.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 391 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Integration
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Public Affairs, [2004]
- Summary:
- Cashin argues that despite the fact that Brown v. Board of Education ended legal segregation fifty years ago, de facto segregation thrives in America today.
- Contents:
- Won't you not be my neighbor? : race and housing
- Bucking the trend : racially integrated communities and racial integration
- Institutionalized separatism
- The dilemma of the black middle class
- White separatism : the costs and benefits
- Schools : separate and unequal
- The cost of the ghetto
- The 50-50 nation : loggerhead politics
- What to do about it.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-382) and index.
- ISBN:
- 158648124X
- OCLC:
- 54694658
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