Disintegration
Subtitle: the splintering of Black America
By: Eugene Robinson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780385526548
Description: Explains how years of desegregation and affirmative action have led to the revelation of four distinct African American groups who reflect unique political views and circumstances, in a report that also illuminates crucial modern debates on race and class.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Black America" doesn't live here anymore; title: When we were one; title: Parting of the ways; title: The mainstream : a double life; title: The abandoned : no way out; title: The transcendent : where none have gone before; title: The emergent (part 1) : coming to America; title: The emergent (part 2) : how Black is Black?; title: Urgency, focus and sacrifice; title: We know who we are, but who will we be?