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“This anthology's 11 chapters offer a state of the art sociological perspective on racial attitudes at the end of the century....This volume effectively conveys the disarray of current thinking and current politics on the black-white question.”–
Book Description
More than half a century has passed since the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Gunnar Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American life. Central to Myrdal's work was the paradox posed by the coexistence of race-based social, economic, and political inequality on the one hand, and the cherished American cultural values of freedom and equality on the other. In the five decades since the publication of this work, there has been a dramatic decline in white Americans' overt expressions of anti-black and anti-integrationist sentiments and in many of the inequalities Myrdal highlighted in his monumental work. Yet the persistence of racial antipathy is evidence of the continuing dilemma of race in American society. This collection of original essays by leading race relations experts focuses on the recent history and current state of racial attitudes in the United States. It addresses key issues and debates in the literature, and it includes chapters on the racial attitudes of African-Americans as well as whites. The volume will be of great importance to students and scholars concerned with the sociology and politics of contemporary American race relations.
Racial Attitudes in the 1990s
Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change,Steven A. Tuch,Jack K. Martin,Praeger Paperback,0275960374,African Americans,Anthropology - Cultural,Attitudes,Discrimination & Racism,Minority Studies - Race Relations,Race relations,Racism,Social Science,Sociology,United States,Whites,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Racism & racial discrimination,Social Science / Discrimination & Race Relations,Social issues,USA,c 1990 to c 2000
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