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Informationen zum Autor Chester Hartman Klappentext Poverty and race -- two of America's most salient, and seemingly intractable, domestic problems -- form the cornerstone of this volume. Featuring contributions by some of the most progressive thinkers on these subjects, the book focuses on the key questions as we begin the new century. From the possibility of achieving true integration (as opposed to mere desegregation), environmental justice, education and its role as counter to structural poverty, to the promise (and lack thereof) of recent anti-poverty policies, Challenges to Equality shines an unflinching light on some of the most important issues we face as a society. Zusammenfassung This text on controversial American social issues covers topics like: integration and civil rights; President Clinton's race initiative; poverty; education; the environment; democratic participation; disability rights; and corporate welfare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 Integration; Chapter 1 Civil Rights, Now and Then, Julian Bond; Chapter 2 Wake Up, Jared Taylor! America is a Democracy Now!, Howard Winant; Chapter 3 Digging Out of the White Trap, Marian (Meek) Groot, Paul Marcus; Chapter 4 Response, Chip Berlet, Surina Khan; Chapter 5 Race and Space, John a. powell; Chapter 6 Telling History on the Landscape, James W. Loewen; Chapter 7 Don't Know Much About History.... Quiz, James W. Loewen; Chapter 8 Bilingual Education, Bebe Moore Campbell; Part 2 Symposium; Chapter 9 By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race, Leonard Steinhorn, Barbara Diggs-Brown; Part 3 Commentaries; Chapter 10 The Politics of Equality, Jerome Scott, Walda Katz-Fishman; Chapter 11 Equality Versus Integration, Herbert J. Gans; Chapter 12 Viable Integration Must Reject the Ideology of Assimilationism, John O. Calmore; Chapter 13 A Wake-Up Call for Liberals, Richard D. Kahlenberg; Chapter 14 Now We Are Engaged in a Great Civil War, Testing Whether That Nation, Or Any Nation So Conceived and So Dedicated, Can Long Endure, Howard Winant; Chapter 15 The Morally Lazy White Middle Class, Robert Jensen; Chapter 16 Today's Integration Challenge, Angela E. Oh; Chapter 17 Half Full? Half Empty?, James W. Loewen; Chapter 18 Needed: An Antiwhite Movement, Noel Ignatiev; Chapter 19 Is Integration Possible? Of Course..., Florence Wagman Roisman; Chapter 20 What Is the Question? Integration or Defeat of Racism?, James Early; Chapter 21 Education and Incentives to Actualize Integration, Don DeMarco; Chapter 22 Should Racial Integration Be Pursued As the Only Goal?, Joe Feagin, Yvonne Combs; Chapter 23 Progress in Integration Has Been Made, George C. Galster; Chapter 24 Unillusioned, S.M. Miller; Chapter 25 Keeping the Dream, William L. Taylor; Chapter 26 No One Even Knows What Integration Is, John Woodford; Chapter 27 We Aspire to Integration and Practice Pluralism, Frank H. Wu; Chapter 28 Integration: The Long Hard Road to the Right...
