By Richard D. Kahlenberg (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown make a compelling case that integration remains an illusion, and for that reason, the book is a powerful antidote to the happy talk of conservatives who tend to emphasize only the progress that we have made. But the authors’ sobering evidence on the state of race … [Read more...] about “A Wake-Up Call for Liberals” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race” by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) There is a conventional wisdom about the 1960s that most writers and commentators follow. The story line is this: we came close, very close, to solving America’s racial dilemma completely in the mid-sixties, until a number of factors stalled our progress and undermined the consensus. … [Read more...] about “By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race” by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
Symposium: Is Integration Possible? (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) A discussion of whether integration is really possible in the United States. Part One This arguably is the biggest dilemma facing America's democracy. Recently, Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown, professors at American University's School of Communication - one African-American, one white, believing that "integration is … [Read more...] about Symposium: Is Integration Possible? (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
Symposium: President Clinton’s Race Initiative Part Four – DEAD END (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) A continuation of commentaries on the report from the Advisory Board to President Clinton\'s Race Initiative.January/February 1999 issue of Poverty & Race View Part One of this Symposium View Part Two of this Symposium View Part Three of this Symposium This is Round 2 of the symposium we began in the Nov/Dec 1998 … [Read more...] about Symposium: President Clinton’s Race Initiative Part Four – DEAD END (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
Race, Poverty, and American Cities,
Race, Poverty, and American Cities, Precise connections between race, poverty and the condition of America's cities are drawn In this collection of seventeen essays. Policymakers and scholars from a variety of disciplines analyze the plight of the urban poor since the riots of the 1960s and the resulting 1968 Kerner Commission Report on the status of African Americans. In … [Read more...] about Race, Poverty, and American Cities,