By George C. Galster (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Professors Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown analyze contemporary American racial attitudes, behaviors, symbols and politics and come to the pessimistic conclusion that black-white integration is impossible during our lifetimes. There is no doubt that the challenges of moving toward a racially integrated society are … [Read more...] about “Progress in Integration HAS Been Made” by George C. Galster (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
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“Half Full? Half Empty?” by James W. Loewen (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By James W. Loewen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) We all stare at the half-full glass of integration and racial justice. We all wish it were full. Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown and some others emphasize the empty top half, singling out neighborhoods and schools that have resegregated and stressing that white ethnic groups — “the Italian, Jews, Poles, and Russians” … [Read more...] about “Half Full? Half Empty?” by James W. Loewen (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“No One Even Knows What Integration Is” by John Woodford (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
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)
“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)
“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)
