By John Woodford (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Our struggle is about desegregation and justice, including recompensatory and reparative measures to make up for past systematic handicapping of our socioeconomic and political rights and privileges. The goal is not and should not be termed as “integration.” No one even knows what that is. It can’t be measured … [Read more...] about “No One Even Knows What Integration Is” by John Woodford (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
Symposium Responses
“Today’s Integration Challenge” by Angela E. Oh (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By Angela E. Oh (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Americans are confronted with the fact that we are a multi-racial, multi-cultural society that has yet to define a new vision, strategy or language that allows for the kind of transformation that integration once symbolized. A thorough and relevant assessment of our challenges in connection with race relations and … [Read more...] about “Today’s Integration Challenge” by Angela E. Oh (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By William L. Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown have made an important contribution with their trenchant analysis of where matters now stand in the long struggle for equality and racial integration. Sadly, race remains a seemingly intractable problem, an (perhaps the) American dilemma. W.E.B. DuBois’ observation … [Read more...] about “Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“The Politics of Equality” by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Race and racial discrimination institutionalized within the structures and practices of American society since their beginning are surely not declining in significance as we enter the new millennium. On the other hand, social class — or the growing gap between rich and poor — is clearly … [Read more...] about “The Politics of Equality” by Jerome Scott and Walda Katz-Fishman (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“Setting the Record Straight” by Eric Mann (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Eric Mann (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown book could easily be renamed The Illusions of Liberalism. It argues that there never was a honeymoon period in which a white majority supported civil rights, and it advocates renewed government intervention to protect black civil rights, an analysis and proposals that any civil rights … [Read more...] about “Setting the Record Straight” by Eric Mann (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
