The Myth of Black Progress

by Alphonso Pinkney

• ISBN13: 9780521310475
• ISBN10: 0521310474
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-06-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Professor Pinkey argues race continues to be an ever-present factor in American life.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction: the persistance of racism in the United States

Economic decline and the rise of the new conservatism: twin threats to blacks

Class and race in America

White attitudes and behavior towards black people

Income, occupation, and unemployment

The black middle class

And the black underclass

Some educational issues

Bakke, Weber, and the myth of reverse

Black equity in white America

Notes

Index

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