Healing Our Divided Society : Investing in America Fifty Years after the Kerner Report
Subtitle: Investing in America Fifty Years after the Kerner Report
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9781439916032
Subjects: United states, politics and government
Description: In 1968, the Kerner Commission concluded that America was heading toward "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." Today, America's communities are experiencing increasing racial tensions and inequality, working-class resentment over the unfulfilled American Dream, white supremacy violence, toxic inaction in Washington, and the decline of the nation's example around the world. In Healing Our Divided Society, Fred Harris, the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, along with Eisenhower Foundation CEO Alan Curtis, re-examine fifty years later the work still necessary towards the goals set forth in The Kerner Report. This timely volume unites the interests of minorities and white working- and middle-class Americans to propose a strategy to reduce poverty, inequality, and racial injustice.