Research Catalog

Title

Civil rights and race relations in the post Reagan-Bush era / edited by Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1997.

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Additional Authors

Myers, Samuel L.

Description

xiv, 269 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Subject

• African Americans > Civil rights
• Affirmative action programs > United States
• African Americans > Employment
• United States > Race relations
• United States > Ethnic relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Historical roots of contemporary racial inequality / Herbert Hill -- Race, civil rights, and the new immigrants : nativism and the new world order / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- Fighting white racism : the future of equal rights in the United States / Joe R. Feagin -- Affirmative action policy under Executive Order 11246 : a retrospective view / Bernard E. Anderson -- Racial differences in employment shares : new evidence from the EEO-1 files / William M. Rodgers III -- Where the jobs went in the 1990-91 downturn : varying (mis)fortunes or homogeneous distress? / M.V. Lee Badgett -- Foundation connections to black workers and labor unions / Richard Magat -- Diversity in the workplace : a dialogue among corporate executives -- A local conversation about race -- Hungry mind review questionnaire / Betsy Hubbard --
• "Don't throw trash in the well from which you must drink" : black demagogues, the media, and the pollution of racial discourse / Richard M. Benjamin -- The political assault on affirmative action : undermining 50 years of progress toward equality / Gerald W. Heaney -- Is affirmative action a quota system? / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Reparations / William A. Darity, Jr. -- Remedies to racial inequality -- Afterword : the future of race relations and civil rights / Samuel L. Myers, Jr.

ISBN

0275956210 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96037730^

OCLC

36001177

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library