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)
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“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)
“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)
“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)
“The Morally Lazy White Middle Class” by Robert Jensen (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Robert Jensen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The invitation to write this commentary asked for reaction to the “sadly dour view” on integration of Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown. Yet I don’t find the authors’ view sad or dour; their conclusion that racial integration is an illusion is honest and hopeful. Like the authors, it seems to me that the only hope of … [Read more...] about “The Morally Lazy White Middle Class” by Robert Jensen (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
