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- catalog abstract ""This book examines the vexing reality of racial conditions in America today: improved overall, but far more complicated than they used to seem, and in important respects continually depressing. Thirteen essays - by some of the most highly respected experts in the nation - present thoughtful, and often competing, assessments of African American progress and of the prospects for its further enhancement." "The book concludes with a discussion of the feasibility of "reaching beyond race" to build stronger political coalitions for racially progressive policies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11445615.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations Forecasting.".
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""This book examines the vexing reality of racial conditions in America today: improved overall, but far more complicated than they used to seem, and in important respects continually depressing. Thirteen essays - by some of the most highly respected experts in the nation - present thoughtful, and often competing, assessments of African American progress and of the prospects for its further enhancement." "The book concludes with a discussion of the feasibility of "reaching beyond race" to build stronger political coalitions for racially progressive policies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. The predicament -- Rough road to racial uplift / Christopher H. Foreman Jr. -- Two nations of Black America / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Legacy of slavery / Glenn C. Loury -- pt. 2. Affirmative action -- Black progress / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom -- Affirmative action / Orlando Patterson -- pt. 3. Education -- Black-white test score gap / Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips -- Race, education, and equal opportunity / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Vouchers and central city schools / Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene -- pt. 4. Community -- Impediments to integration / Nathan Glazer -- Black churches and the inner-city poor / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- pt. 5. Politics -- American racial and ethnic politics in the twenty-first century / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- Unsteady march toward racial equality / Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith -- Moral basis of a color-blind politics / Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines.".
- catalog extent "x, 216 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0815728808 (cloth)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations Forecasting.".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog subject "305.896/073 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Civil rights.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Social conditions 1975-".
- catalog subject "E185.615 .A5925 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. The predicament -- Rough road to racial uplift / Christopher H. Foreman Jr. -- Two nations of Black America / Henry Louis Gates Jr. -- Legacy of slavery / Glenn C. Loury -- pt. 2. Affirmative action -- Black progress / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom -- Affirmative action / Orlando Patterson -- pt. 3. Education -- Black-white test score gap / Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips -- Race, education, and equal opportunity / Linda Darling-Hammond -- Vouchers and central city schools / Paul E. Peterson and Jay P. Greene -- pt. 4. Community -- Impediments to integration / Nathan Glazer -- Black churches and the inner-city poor / John J. DiIulio, Jr. -- pt. 5. Politics -- American racial and ethnic politics in the twenty-first century / Jennifer L. Hochschild -- Unsteady march toward racial equality / Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith -- Moral basis of a color-blind politics / Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines.".
- catalog title "The African-American predicament / Christopher H. Foreman, Jr., editor.".
- catalog type "text".