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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Higham, John.

Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism--United States--History--20th century--Congresses.

Cultural pluralism.

African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Congresses.

African Americans.

United States--Social conditions--1945---Congresses.

United States.

United States--Race relations--Congresses.

Physical Description:

viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1997.

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.

Notes:

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

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0271017090 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

36681654