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Title:

Civil rights and social wrongs : Black-white relations since World War II / edited by John Higham.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

viii, 223 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Afro-Americans--Congresses.--History--20th century--Congresses.
Pluralism (Social sciences)--United States--Congresses.--20th century--Congresses.
United States--Congresses.--Congresses.
United States--Congresses.--1945---Congresses.

Other Authors:

Higham, John.
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780271017099 (alk. paper)
0271017090 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)36681654

LCCN:

97008568

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — 327.73

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake) — 327.73

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)