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- catalog abstract ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."--A passage by Charles Dickens published a century ago - describes how African Americans today feel about their chances for advancement. Since the 1960s, socioeconomic reports have examined the difficulties blacks have endured in their attempts to enter into the mainstream. For example, in 1965, then U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan released the "Moynihan Report" stating that the roots of poverty, illiteracy, and despair in the black community are tied to the instability within the family resulting from centuries of slavery and discrimination. Twenty-five years later, U.S. Statistical Abstracts declared that the number of African Americans in correctional facilities equaled those in universities; and the 1990 U.S. Census Bureau reported that not only do 45% of black children live in families barely at the poverty line, but that the median income of a white household is almost double that of a black household. Are there specific reasons for the prevalence of dysfunction in the African-American community? Racism or Attitude? The Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation and Self-Esteem challenges the long-held assumptions of black leaders and liberal thinkers that racism and discrimination are the only reasons behind the state of the African-American population. Dr. James L. Robinson, a political scientist specializing in African-American history, contends that negative attitude and a lack of self-esteem are as accountable as discrimination and racism for the ethnocentric troubles within the black community. The author explores social and economic conditions as they relate to the contradictions between race and class thinking, the varied results of Affirmative Action, and the effects of the civil rights movement on African Americans. Have Affirmative Action and other such programs contributed to a sense of unworthiness within African Americans as to their abilities and intelligence? Or, is today's politically sensitive climate deflecting the responsibility of the individual to succeed in a society based upon merit? In response to these questions, Dr. Robinson, himself a beneficiary of Affirmative Action, demonstrates that true black liberation will occur only when black attitudes toward race change. Racism or Attitude? is a frank analysis on the effects of race, economics, and politics in the United States on present and future generations of all members of society. Sociologists, political scientists, educators, ethnohistorians, demographers, criminologists, and behavioral psychologists will find this handbook on contemporary American history to be invaluable.".
- catalog contributor b7626828.
- catalog coverage "United States Race relations.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description ""It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."--A passage by Charles Dickens published a century ago - describes how African Americans today feel about their chances for advancement. Since the 1960s, socioeconomic reports have examined the difficulties blacks have endured in their attempts to enter into the mainstream. For example, in 1965, then U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan released the "Moynihan Report" stating that the roots of poverty, illiteracy, and despair in the black community are tied to the instability within the family resulting from centuries of slavery and discrimination. Twenty-five years later, U.S. Statistical Abstracts declared that the number of African Americans in correctional facilities equaled those in universities; and the 1990 U.S. ".
- catalog description "Census Bureau reported that not only do 45% of black children live in families barely at the poverty line, but that the median income of a white household is almost double that of a black household. Are there specific reasons for the prevalence of dysfunction in the African-American community? Racism or Attitude? The Ongoing Struggle for Black Liberation and Self-Esteem challenges the long-held assumptions of black leaders and liberal thinkers that racism and discrimination are the only reasons behind the state of the African-American population. Dr. James L. Robinson, a political scientist specializing in African-American history, contends that negative attitude and a lack of self-esteem are as accountable as discrimination and racism for the ethnocentric troubles within the black community. ".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Race thinking -- Race or class? A classic debate -- The price of affirmative action -- Crime and punishment -- Blacks, Jews, Koreans, and Hispanics in the promised land -- Welfare dependency -- The declining significance of integration -- Black empowerment -- Conclusion : racial healing.".
- catalog description "Sociologists, political scientists, educators, ethnohistorians, demographers, criminologists, and behavioral psychologists will find this handbook on contemporary American history to be invaluable.".
- catalog description "The author explores social and economic conditions as they relate to the contradictions between race and class thinking, the varied results of Affirmative Action, and the effects of the civil rights movement on African Americans. Have Affirmative Action and other such programs contributed to a sense of unworthiness within African Americans as to their abilities and intelligence? Or, is today's politically sensitive climate deflecting the responsibility of the individual to succeed in a society based upon merit? In response to these questions, Dr. Robinson, himself a beneficiary of Affirmative Action, demonstrates that true black liberation will occur only when black attitudes toward race change. Racism or Attitude? is a frank analysis on the effects of race, economics, and politics in the United States on present and future generations of all members of society. ".
- catalog extent "xi, 269 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Racism or attitude?".
- catalog identifier "0306449455".
- catalog isFormatOf "Racism or attitude?".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Insight Books,".
- catalog relation "Racism or attitude?".
- catalog spatial "United States Race relations.".
- catalog subject "305.896/073 20".
- catalog subject "African Americans Race identity.".
- catalog subject "E185.625 .R56 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Race thinking -- Race or class? A classic debate -- The price of affirmative action -- Crime and punishment -- Blacks, Jews, Koreans, and Hispanics in the promised land -- Welfare dependency -- The declining significance of integration -- Black empowerment -- Conclusion : racial healing.".
- catalog title "Racism or attitude? : the ongoing struggle for Black liberation and self-esteem / James L. Robinson ; foreword by Mitchell F. Rice.".
- catalog type "text".