The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream

by Cashin, Sheryll

• ISBN13: 9781586481247
• ISBN10: 158648124X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-13
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

The failures of integration is a provocative look at how segregation by race and class is ruining American democracy. Only a small minority of the affluent are truly living the American Dream, complete with attractive, job-rich suburbs, reasonably low taxes, good public schools, and little violent crime. For the remaining majority of Americans, segregation comes with stratospheric costs. In a society that sets up "winner" and "loser" communities and schools defined by race and class, racial minorities in particular are locked out of the "winner" column. African-Americans bear the heaviest burden. But with the expensive price tag attached to "winner" communities, middle-income whites also struggle to afford homes in good neighborhoods with acceptable schools.

Author Biography

Sheryll Cashin is Professor of Law at Georgetown University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Facts about the failures of integration
Wont's you not be my neighbor? race and housing	p. 3
Bucking the trend : racially integrated communities and racial integration	p. 39
Institutionalized separatism	p. 83
The costs of our failures - a separate and unequal society
The dilemma of the black middle class	p. 127
White separatism : the costs and benefits	p. 167
Schools : separate and unequal	p. 202
The cost of the ghetto	p. 237
Our future
The 50-50 nation : loggerhead politics	p. 263
What to do about it	p. 289
Acknowledgments	p. 333
Notes	p. 337
Index	p. 383
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