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)
by the color of our skin
“Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure” by Howard Winant (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Howard Winant (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) If Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown are correct that the elimination of Jim Crow did not really occur, then what did happen in the Civil Rights and post-Civil Rights era? By the Color of Our Skin sounds quite familiar, perhaps because there isn’t anything really new here. Many academics and activists have made … [Read more...] about “Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure” by Howard Winant (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“A Wake-Up Call for Liberals” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
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)
