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Disintegration : the splintering of Black America / Eugene Robinson.
Van Pelt Library E185.86 .R618 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Eugene, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Economic conditions--21st century.
- African Americans--Race identity.
- Group identity--United States.
- Group identity.
- African Americans--Economic conditions.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- United States.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Social mobility--United States.
- Social mobility.
- United States--Social conditions--21st century.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 254 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Doubleday, [2010]
- Summary:
- Explains how years of desegregation and affirmative action have led to the revelation of four distinct African American groups who reflect unique political views and circumstances, in a report that also illuminates crucial modern debates on race and class.
- Contents:
- "Black America" doesn't live here anymore
- When we were one
- Parting of the ways
- The mainstream : a double life
- The abandoned : no way out
- The transcendent : where none have gone before
- The emergent (part 1) : coming to America
- The emergent (part 2) : how Black is Black?
- Urgency, focus and sacrifice
- We know who we are, but who will we be?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780385526548
- 0385526547
- OCLC:
- 500797255
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