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One by one from the inside out : essays and reviews on race and responsibility in America

Title
One by one from the inside out : essays and reviews on race and responsibility in America / Glenn C. Loury.
Author
Loury, Glenn C.
Publication
New York, NY : Free Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description
ix, 332 pages; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Prologue: Free at Last? A Personal Perspective on Race and Identity in America -- Pt. I. Race and Responsibility in the Post-Civil Rights Era. 1. Black Dignity and the Common Good. 2. The Moral Quandary of the Black Community. 3. A New American Dilemma. 4. Two Paths to Black Progress. 5. The End of an Illusion: Black-Jewish Relations in the Nineties. 6. Economic Discrimination: Getting to the Core of the Problem. 7. Senate Testimony on the Civil Rights Act of 1990 -- Pt. II. Can We Talk? 8. Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of Political Correctness and Related Phenomena. 9. Leadership Failure and the Loyalty Trap. 10. Second Thoughts and First Principles. 11. Professors and the Poor: Discussion at a Poverty Conference -- Pt. III. A Critical Look at the Field (Selected Reviews). 12. Preaching to the Converted: Race Matters / Cornel West. 13. Liberal Racism: Two Nations / Andrew Hacker. 14. Dilemmas of a Black Intellectual: Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby / Stephen L. Carter.
  • 15. Demanding More of Blacks Than Whites: The Content of Our Character / Shelby Steele. 16. The Family, the Nation, and Senator Moynihan: Family and Nation / Daniel P. Moynihan. 17. A Crisis Grows in Brooklyn: Canarsie / Jonathan Rieder. 18. Other Reviews, 1992-1994. Doing Well by Doing Good: The Death of an American Jewish Community / Hillel Levine and Lawrence Harmon. Miracles Are Still Happening: Upon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church / Samuel G. Freedman. Spiritual Politics: The Culture of Disbelief / Stephen L. Carter. Permanently Alienated: Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism / Derrick Bell. The Epic Career of W. E. B. Du Bois: W. E. B. Du Bois: Writings / Edited by Nathan I. Huggins. Black Crime: Answering Conservatives: "America's Black Crime Gap - and How to Close It" / John Dilulio. It's a Spiritual Thing, You Wouldn't Understand: The Bell Curve / Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray -- Epilogue: New Life: A Professor and Veritas.
ISBN
0029194415
LCCN
94046593
OCLC
  • 31707993
  • ocm31707993
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries