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America in black and white : one nation, indivisible / Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom.

Title
America in black and white : one nation, indivisible / Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom.
Author
Thernstrom, Stephan
Publication
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, ©1997.

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Additional Authors
  • Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
  • Thernstrom, Abigail M., 1936-2020
Description
704 pages : maps; 25 cm
Summary
  • The "American Dilemma," Gunnar Myrdal called the problem of race in his classic 1944 book. More than half a century later, race remains the issue that dwarfs all others - the problem that doesn't get solved and won't go away. But in the decades since Myrdal wrote, much has changed, say the authors of America in Black and White. Progress - too little acknowledged - has been heartening. Pessimists talk of the "permanence of racism," and say that things are as bad as ever. In fact, the authors show, the status of blacks has been transformed in recent decades, and there is no going back. Problems remain, of course. But they will not be solved by traditional civil rights strategies, the authors argue. Affirmative action programs, for instance, do nothing to help the black underclass. Racial preferences cannot rescue the high school dropout who is too unskilled for the modern world of work
  • Racial progress ultimately depends on our common understanding that we are one nation, indivisible - that we sink or swim together, that black poverty impoverishes us all, and that black alienation eats at the nation's soul.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Association copies (Provenance)
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-671) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1: history -- Jim Crow -- The promised land -- Remarkable change -- Amazing patience -- We shall overcome -- Coming together--and apart -- pt. 2: out of the sixties: recent social, economic, and political trends -- The rise of the black middle class -- Cities and suburbs -- Poverty -- Crime -- Politics -- pt. 3: equality and preferences: the changing racial climate -- With all deliberate speed -- Skills, tests, and diversity -- The higher learning -- Jobs and contracts -- Voting rights -- The racial climate -- Conclusion: one nation, indivisible.
ISBN
  • 0684809338
  • 9780684809335
  • 0684844974
  • 9780684844978
LCCN
97014078
OCLC
  • 36727698
  • SCSB-10307518
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library