Race and ethnicity in the United States : issues and debates /
Steinberg, Stephen.
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers,
2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The eclipse of anti-racist public policy. The Kerner Commission Report in retrospect / John Charles Boger ; The liberal retreat from race / Stephen Steinberg -- The national conversation on race. Democracy's conversation / Lani Guinier ; Yackety-Yak about race / Adolph Reed, Jr. -- The racial division of labor. Occupational apartheid and the origins of affirmative action / Stephen Steinberg ; Bursting the bubble : the failure of black progress / Sharon M. Collins -- The race versus class debate. The case for class-based affirmative action / Richard D. Kahlenberg ; Should public policy be class conscious rather than color conscious? / Amy Gutmann -- The future of affirmative action. When preferences disappear / Peter Schrag ; Is affirmative action doomed? / Ronald Dworkin -- Should the ghetto be "dismantled"? The future of the ghetto / Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton ; The complexities of a public housing community / Larry Bennett and Adolph Reed, Jr. -- School desegregation. Turning back to segregation / Gary Orfield ; Integration dilemmas in a racist culture / Doris Y. Wilinson -- Racial districting. Groups, representation, and race conscious districting / Lani Guinier ; The future of black representation / Carol M. Swain -- The meaning of American nationality. What does it mean to be an "American"? / Michael Walzer ; The ethno-racial pentagon / David Hollinger -- The melting pot : myth or reality? Assimilation's quite tide / Richard D. Alba ; Are the children of today's immingrats making it? / Joel Perlmann and Roger Waldinger -- The immigration debate. The immigrant contribution to the revitalization of cieties / Thomas Muller ; Immigration policy and the U.S. economy: an institutional perspective / Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. --Multicultural education. Multiculturalism : E Pluribus Plures / Diane Ravitch ; The great multicultural debate / Gary B. Nash -- Language politics. Lingo Jingo : English-Only and the new nativism / Geoffrey Nunberg ; English only : the tongue-tying of America / Donaldo Macedo -- Self-segregation on college campuses. Degree of separation at Yale / Peter Beinart ; Understanding self-segregation on the campus / Troy Duster -- The debate over "identity politics". The rise of "identity politics" / Todd Gitlin ; Identity politics and class struggle / Robin D.G. Kelley.