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

Other author Higham, John, 1920-2003.
Other author Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.
Format Book
Publication InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.
Descriptionviii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
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 noteLittle-306203--305131011454S
General noteRevised 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
LCCN 97008568
ISBN0271017090 (alk. paper)

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