The Ordeal of Integration
Subtitle: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed edition
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: November 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781887178617
Subjects: Black studies; Multicultural studies; Social issues; Sociology; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; USA; United  States; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Ethnic relations; Race relations; United States
First sentence: After two and a half centuries of slavery, followed by a century of rural semiserfdom and violently imposed segregation, wanton economic discrimination, and outright exclusion of Afro-Americans from the middle and upper echelons of the nation's economy, it was inevitable that when the nation finally committed itself to the goal of ethnic justice and integration the transition would be painful, if not traumatic.