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By the color of our skin : the illusion of integration and the reality of race
Steinhorn, LeonardNew York : Dutton, [1999].The signs of progress are everywhere -- white children want to "be like Mike", Oprah chats with millions everyday, Newt Gingrich quotes Martin Luther King. But when we look beyond the rhetoric and symbols, we find a very different reality: 70 percent of black children attend predominantly black schools; a Hispanic or Asian American with a third grade education is more likely to live in an integrated neighborhood than a black with a Ph.D. -- and the list goes on. "By the Color of our Skin" is a provocative, readable analysis of race that argues three things: integration does not exist now, it was never a possibility in the past, and it will never exist in the future.
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From power to prejudice : the rise of racial individualism in midcentury America
Gordon, Leah N.Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2015.Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intellectual history, Leah N. Gordon Jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, From Power to Prejudice examines American academia-both black and white-in the 1940s and '50s. Gordon presents four competing visions of "the race problem" and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction. A number of factors, Gordon shows, explain racial individualism's postwar influence: individuals were easier to measure than social forces; psychology was well funded; studying political economy was difficult amid McCarthyism; and individualism was useful in legal attacks on segregation. Highlighting vigorous midcentury debate over the meanings of racial justice and equality, From Power to Prejudice reveals how one particular vision of social justice won out among many contenders.
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The other American dilemma : schools, Mexicans, and the nature of Jim Crow, 1912-1953
Donato, Rubén, 1955-Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2021]Online EBSCOhost Access limited to 1 user
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