The Ethnic Moment: The Search for Equality in the American Experience - The Search for Equality in the American Experience

The aim of the editor, Philip Fetzer, is to humanize the concept of equality; each of these vividly autobiographical essays gives voice to the writer's first experience of inequality, and the point at which each became committed to the search for equality. In the seven selections in Part I, "Moments", the authors describe critical experiences in their lives that awakened in them a new and deeper understanding of equality. In the remaining five essays in Part II, "From the Beginning", each contributor describes how he or she came to know the meaning of equality at an early age. The majority of these essays have been written exclusively for this volume or appear here for the first time; they have been selected to represent widely diverse backgrounds with regard to ethnicity, gender, occupation, and social/economic class, and convey with dramatic immediacy the themes of human conflict, personal triumph, determination, individual achievement, adversity, love and understanding.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Thinking about Equality, Philip L. Fetzer; Part 1 Moments; Chapter 2 A Season for Justice, Morris Dees; Chapter 3 The Way We Were—1949, Betty Friedan; Chapter 4 Going South, Howard Zinn; Chapter 5 A Participant’s Commentary—The Voting Rights Act of 1965, Julian Bond; Chapter 6 Growing Up with Gender Discrimination in Sport, Donna A. Lopiano; Chapter 7 Equality Requires a Fight for Recognition and Meaning, Michael Lerner; Chapter 8 Another “Theme for English B”, Gayle Pemberton; Part 2 From the Beginning; Chapter 9 From Participation to Equality, Henry Gonzalez; Chapter 10 La Famiglia, La Famiglia, Michael Parenti; Chapter 11 Grampa’s Indian Blood, Joseph Bruchac; Chapter 12 Prejudice Is a Curable Disease, William Winter; Chapter 13 A Dream Deferred, Alice Brooks;

About the author

Philip L. Fetzer

Product details

• Authors: Philip L. Fetzer, Fetzer Philip L.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.1996
• EAN: 9781563249266
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-926-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Weight: 612 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; USA, Ethnic Studies, Biography: general, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social discrimination & inequality, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural & Regional