Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates
- List Price: $76.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
- Publish date: 01/01/2000
Description:
This volume brings together some of the most lucid and incisive recent scholarship on race, ethnicity and public policy.
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Part one focuses on the dismantling of anti-racist public policy during the post-civil rights era. Readings begin with a general assessment of what "race" means in America today followed by an examination of affirmative action, school desegregation, housing discrimination, and racial districting -- four areas where policies enacted during the civil rights era have been blunted or reversed.
Part two shifts the focus from race to ethnicity, addressing how immigration and shifting demographies have affected the construction of nationality. It poses the central question -- will new immigrants follow in the footsteps of the old when it comes to socioeconomic mobility and cultural assimilation?
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