Race and Ethnicity in the United States: Issues and Debates

This volume brings together some of the clearest and most incisive recent scholarship on race and ethnicity, with a focus on key policy issues. The first half of the book focuses on the dismantling of anti–racist policies in the post–civil rights era, beginning with a general assessment of "race" in America thirty years after the historic Kerner Commission Report. Examinations follow of affirmative action, school desegregation, housing discrimination, and racial districting – four areas where policies enacted during the civil rights era have been blunted or reversed. Part Two sees the focus of the book move to ethnicity. How have immigration and shifting demographics affected the construction of nationality? Will new immigrants follow in the footsteps of old immigrants when it comes to socioeconomic mobility and cultural assimilation? Further readings examine specific policy issues: immigration, multiculturalism, bilingualism, ethnic self–segregation on college campuses, and the debate over "identity politics."
Written by leading scholars in the field, all of the readings clearly and thoughtfully explore the intersections among the academy, public policy, and popular understandings of race and ethnicity. The format is ideal for examining these hotly debated issues: two readings cover each topic, thus offering contrasting viewpoints that encourage thought and discussion.

Spis treści:
Contributors.
Acknowledgments.
Note to the Reader.
Section I: Anti–Racist Public Policy in the Post–Civil Rights Era:.
Introduction to Section I: Two Steps Forward and One Step Backward.
Part I: The Eclipse of Anti–Racist Public Policy:.
1. The Kerner Commission Report in Retrospect: John Charles Boger.
2. The Liberal Retreat from Race: Stephen Steinberg.
Part II: The National Conversation on Race:.
3. Democracy′s Conversation: Lani Guinier.
4. Yackety–Yak A bout Race: Adolph Reed, Jr.
Part III: The Racial Division of Labor:.
5. Occupational Apartheid and the Origins of Affirmative Action: Stephen Steinberg.
6. Bursting the Bubble: The Failure of Black Progress: Sharon M. Collins.
Part IV: The Race Versus Class Debate:.
7. The Case for Class–Based Affirmative Action: Richard D. Kahlenberg.
8. Should Public Policy Be Class Conscious Rather than Color Conscious?: Amy Gutmann.
Part V: The Future of Affirmative Action:.
9. When Preferences Disappear: Peter Schrag.
10. Is Affirmative Action Doomed? Ronald Dworkin.
Part VI: Should the Ghetto Be "Dismantled"?.
11. The Future of the Ghetto: Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton.
12. The Complexities of a Public Housing Community: Larry Bennett and Adoph Reed, Jr.
Part VII: School Desegregation:.
13. Turning Back to Segregation: Gary Orfield.
14. Integration Dilemmas in a Racist Culture: Doris Y. Wilkinson.
Part VIII: Racial Districting:.
15. Groups, Representation, and Race Conscious Districting: Lani Guinier.
16. The Future of Black Representation: Carol M. Swain.
Section II: The Politics of Diversity:.
Introduction to Section II: The One and the Many.
Part IX: The Meaning of American Nationality:.
17. What Does It Mean To Be an American?: Michael Walzer.
18. The Ethno–Racial Pentagon: David Hollinger.
Part X: The Melting Pot: Myth or Reality?:.
19. Assimilation′s Quiet Tide: Richard D. Alba.
20. Are the Children of Today′s Immigrants Making It?: Joel Perlmann and Roger Waldinger.
Part XI: The Immigration Debate:.
21. The Immigrant Contribution to the Revitalization of Cities: Thomas Muller.
22. Immigration Policy and the U.S. Economy: An Institutional Perspective: Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.
Part XII: Multicultural Education:.
23. Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures: Diane Ravitch.
24. T he Great Multicultural Debate: Gary B. Nash.
Part XIII: Language Politics:.
25. Lingo Jingo: English–Only and the New Nativism: Geoffrey Nunberg.
26. English Only: The Tongue–Tying of America: Donaldo Macedo.
Part XIV: Self–Segregation on College Campuses:.
27. Degree of Separation at Yale: Peter Beinart.
28. Understanding Self–Segregation on the Campus: Troy Duster.
Part XV: The Debate Over "Identity Politics":.
29. The Rise of "Identity Politics": Todd Gitlin.
30. Identity Politics and Class Struggle: Robin D. G. Kelley.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Stephen Steinberg is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and a Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His previous books include The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America and Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy which received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti–Racist Scholarship. In addition to his academic work, he has published articles in The Nation, Reconstruction, and New Politics.

Okładka tylna:
This volume brings together some of the clearest and most incisive recent scholarship on race and ethnicity, with a focus on key policy issues. The first half of the book focuses on the dismantling of anti–racist policies in the post–civil rights era, beginning with a general assessment of "race" in America thirty years after the historic Kerner Commission Report. Examinations follow of affirmative action, school desegregation, housing discrimination, and racial districting – four areas where policies enacted during the civil rights era have been blunted or reversed. Part Two sees the focus of the book move to ethnicity. How have immigration and shifting demographics affected the construction of nationality? Will new immigran ts follow in the footsteps of old immigrants when it comes to socioeconomic mobility and cultural assimilation? Further readings examine specific policy issues: immigration, multiculturalism, bilingualism, ethnic self–segregation on college campuses, and the debate over "identity politics."
Written by leading scholars in the field, all of the readings clearly and thoughtfully explore the intersections among the academy, public policy, and popular understandings of race and ethnicity. The format is ideal for examining these hotly debated issues: two readings cover each topic, thus offering contrasting viewpoints that encourage thought and discussion.