Advances the argument for a new Civil Rights Agenda attuned to the changing conditions of the 1990s.
Insightful essays from leading scholars and writers on civil rights and race relations focus on the retrenchment from the ideal of racial equality. A common theme emerges: the new civil rights agenda must embrace radically different perspectives in order to be successful in eradicating racial and ethnic economic inequality.
This volume combines insightful essays from leading scholars and writers on civil rights and race relations with provocative discussions by business professionals and community leaders on retrenchment from the ideal of racial equality. It reviews what Americans really think about race and race relations while providing definitive assessments of the status of affirmative action. The writers put forth convincing evidence that white privilege lies at the root of both current racial inequality and opposition to conventional approaches to remedying inequality.
The essays provide a backdrop for understanding the reversals in support of remedies to racial and ethnic inequality and for understanding why the new agenda that must be forged will need to account for the changing demographics of the minority population. Essays in the volume also underscore how major demographic shifts and economic transformations have conspired with political reversals to make the agenda of the 1960s and 1970s civil rights movement obsolete. Any new approach to racial and ethnic inequality must account both for the coloring of America and the persistence and entrenchment of white racism. The book's final assessment will be of great interest to opinion leaders and officials as well as researchers and scholars in political science, economics, sociology, and Black Studies.
Preface by Samuel L. Myers, Jr.
Historical Roots of Contemporary Racial Inequality by Herbert Hill
Race, Civil Rights, and the New Immigrants: Nativism and the New World Order by Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Fighting White Racism: The Future of Equal Rights in the United States by Joe R. Feagin
Affirmative Action Policy Under Executive Order 11246: A Retrospective View by Bernard E. Anderson
Racial Differences in Employment Shares: New Evidence from the EEO-1 Files by William M. Rodgers, III
Where the Jobs Went in the 1990-1991 Downturn: Varying (Mis)Fortunes or Homogeneous Distress? by M. V. Lee Badgett
Foundation Connections to Black Workers and Labor Unions by Richard Magat
Diversity in the Workplace: A Dialogue Among Corporate Executives
A Local Conversation about Race
Hungry Mind Review Questionnaire by Betsy Hubbard, Kathleen Kalina, Rebecca Kelleher-Reeth, Dartrell Lipscomb, Reginald J. Mitchell, Sr., and Michelle Revels
"Don't Throw Trash in the Well from Which You Must Drink": Black Demagogues, the Media, and the Pollution of Racial Discourse by Richard M. Benjamin
The Political Assault on Affirmative Action: Undermining Forty Years of Progress Toward Equality by The Honorable Gerald W. Heaney
Is Affirmative Action a Quota System? by Barbara R. Bergmann
Reparations by William A. Darity, Jr.
Remedies to Racial Inequality
Afterword: The Future of Race Relations and Civil Rights by Samuel L. Myers, Jr.
Reviews
This excellent, highly readable volume examines numerous venues, including historical circumstances, surveys of racism, white and black ideologues, affirmative action policies, and outcomes of these policies....Recommended for all levels.—Choice
