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Providing a fresh look at society's most enduring division, this new edition cogently demonstrates where race relations are today and why race will play a pivotal role in shaping America in the 21st century.
List of contents
Table of ContentsPreface
PART I1. Dividing American Society
2. Race and Racism: Inferiority or Equality?
3. Being Black in America
4. White Responses: Right and Left, Guilt and Sex
PART II5. Parents and Children: Do the Races Really Differ?
6. The Racial Income Gap: How Much Is Due to Bias?
7. Equity in Employment: Qualifications and Quotas
8. Education: Ethnicity and Achievement
9. Segregated Schooling: Voluntary and Imposed
10. What's Best for Black Children?
11. Crime: The Role Race Plays
12. The Politics of Race
Statistical Sources
Quoted and Cited Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright © 1992, 1995, 2003 by Andrew Hacker
About the author
Andrew Hacker is a professor of political science at Queens College in New York City. His books include
Downfall: The Demise of a President and His Party,
Two Nations,
Higher Education?, and
The Math Myth. He is a frequent contributor to
The New York Review of Books,
Time, and
Fortune, among other periodicals. Mr. Hacker lives in New York City.
Summary
In this groundbreaking study, Andrew Hacker offers a fresh and disturbing examination of the divisions of color and class in present-day America, analyzing the conditions that keep black and white Americans dangerously far apart in their ability to achieve the American dream.
Why, despite continued efforts to increase understanding and expand opportunities, do black and white Americans still lead separate lives, continually marked by tension and hostility? In his much-lauded classic and updated version reflecting the changing realities of race in our nation, Andrew Hacker explains the origins and meaning of racism and clarifies the conflicting theories of equality and inferiority. He paints a stark picture of racial inequality in America—focusing on family life, education, income, and employment—and explores the controversies over politics, crime, and the causes of the gap between the races.
Reasoned, accurate, and devastating, Two Nations demonstrates how this great and dividing issue has defined America's history and the pivotal role it will play in the future.
