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. |
Local note | Little-306203--305131011454S |
General note | Revised papers of a symposium presented at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., during Oct., 1994. |
General note | "Published in association with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies." |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016. |
LCCN | 97008568 |
ISBN | 0271017090 (alk. paper) |