By john a powell (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The New America Media poll on racial and ethnic attitudes between Blacks, Hispanics and Asian Americans is both very important and subject to many of the limitations that we have experienced in the past when striving to talk openly about the attitudes and positions of different racial and ethnic groups in the … [Read more...] about “‘Minority’ is a Problem Concept” by john a. powell (May-June 2008 P&R Issue)
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“Achieving Racial Convergence: A Leadership Challenge” by Don T. Nakanishi (May-June 20018 P&R Issue)
By Don T. Nakanishi (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The “Deep Divisions, Shared Destiny” poll provides credence for a continuum of competing views on the interracial and interethnic relations and perceptions among African Americans, Asian Americans and Latino Americans. The results, for example, underscore the familiar themes of mistrust, tensions, competition … [Read more...] about “Achieving Racial Convergence: A Leadership Challenge” by Don T. Nakanishi (May-June 20018 P&R Issue)
“An Integration Scenario OR Ending the Illusion” by Herbert J. Gans (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Herbert J. Gans (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) I agree with virtually all of Steinhorn’s and Diggs-Brown’s analysis, but do not share their disappointment, since few of us who were around in the actual (rather than the now imagined) ’60s had any illusions or expected any miracles. Moreover, racial, and particularly residential, integration was then a … [Read more...] about “An Integration Scenario OR Ending the Illusion” by Herbert J. Gans (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)