Civil rights and social wrongs : Black-white relations since World War II

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

Other author/creator	Higham, John, 1920-2003.
Other author/creator	Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Description	viii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)	African Americans--Civil rights --History --20th century --Congresses. Cultural pluralism--United States --History --20th century --Congresses. United States--Race relations --Congresses. United States--Social conditions --1945- --Congresses.

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)