The African-American predicament /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Foreman, Christopher H.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [1999]
Subjects:	African Americans > Civil rights. African Americans > Social conditions > 1975- Afro-Americans > Civil rights. Afro-Americans > Social conditions > 1975- United States > Race relations. United States > Race relations > Forecasting.

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. The predicament. The rough road to racial uplift / Christopher H. Foreman Jr. ; The two nations of Black America / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; The legacy of slavery / Glenn C. Loury
pt. 2. Affirmative action. Black progress / Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom ; Affirmative action / Orlando Patterson
pt. 3. Education. The 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 ; The unsteady march toward racial equality / Philip A. Klinkner and Rogers M. Smith ; The moral basis of a color-blind politics / Paul M. Sniderman and Edward G. Carmines.