Revised papers of a symposium presented at the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, Pa., during Oct., 1994. "Published in association with the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies." Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : a historical perspective / John Higham -- The color line, the dilemma, and the dream : race relations in America at the close of the twentieth century / Lawrence D. Bobo -- The changing meaning of civil rights, 1954-1994 / Lawrence H. Fuchs -- Making sense of the affirmative action debate / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Residential segregation and persistent urban poverty / Douglas S. Massey -- Multiculturalism and a new America / Nathan Glazer -- Our pluralistic common culture / Diane Ravitch -- Race and civil society : a democratic conversation / Jean Bethke Elshtain and Christopher Beem -- A meditation on the meaning of "diversity" in the United States / Gerald Early -- Coda : three reconstructions / John Higham.
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