Race and Ethnicity in the United States Issues and Debates

by Steinberg, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780631208310
• ISBN10: 0631208313
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This volume brings together some of the most incisive recent scholarship on race, ethnicity and public policy.

Author Biography

Stephen Steinberg is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and a Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His previous books include The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America and Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy which received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. In addition to his academic work, he has published articles in The Nation, Reconstruction, and New Politics.

Table of Contents

Contributors	viii
Acknowledgments	xi
Note to the Reader	xv
PART I ANTI-RACIST PUBLIC POLICY IN THE POST--CIVIL RIGHTS ERA	1	(178)
Introduction to Part I: Two Steps Forward and One Step Backward	3	(5)
The Eclipse of Anti-Racist Public Policy	8	(47)
The Kerner Commission Report in Retrospect	8	(29)
John Charles Boger
The Liberal Retreat from Race	37	(18)
Stephen Steinberg
The National Conversation on Race	55	(9)
Democracy's Conversation	55	(5)
Lani Guinier
Yackety-Yak About Race	60	(4)
Adolph Reed, Jr.
The Racial Division of Labor	64	(20)
Occupational Apartheid and the Origins of Affirmative Action	64	(10)
Stephen Steinberg
Bursting the Bubble: The Failure of Black Progress	74	(10)
Sharon M. Collins
The Race Versus Class Debate	84	(16)
The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action	84	(8)
Richard D. Kahlenberg
Should Public Policy Be Class Conscious Rather than Color Conscious?	92	(8)
Amy Gutmann
The Future of Affirmative Action	100	(14)
When Preferences Disappear	100	(5)
Peter Schrag
Is Affirmative Action Doomed?	105	(9)
Ronald Dworkin
Should the Ghetto Be ``Dismantled''?	114	(13)
The Future of the Ghetto	114	(13)
Douglas S. Massey
Nancy A. Denton
The Complexities of a Public Housing Community	127	(8)
Larry Bennett
Adolph Reed, Jr.
School Desegregation	135	(26)
Turning Back to Segregation	135	(19)
Gary Orfield
Integration Dilemmas in a Racist Culture	154	(7)
Doris Y. Wilkinson
Racial Districting	161	(18)
Groups, Representation, and Race Conscious Districting	161	(11)
Lani Guinier
The Future of Black Representation	172	(7)
Carol M. Swain
PART II THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY	179	(157)
Introduction to Part II: The One and the Many	181	(5)
The Meaning of American Nationality	186	(25)
What Does It Mean To Be an ``American''?	186	(11)
Michael Walzer
The Ethno-Racial Pentagon	197	(14)
David Hollinger
The Melting Pot: Myth or Reality?	211	(23)
Assimilation's Quiet Tide	211	(12)
Richard D. Alba
Are the Children of Today's Immigrants Making It?	223	(11)
Joel Perlmann
Roger Waldinger
The Immigration Debate	234	(33)
The Immigrant Contribution to the Revitalization of Cities	234	(19)
Thomas Muller
Immigration Policy and the U. S. Economy: An Institutional Perspective	253	(14)
Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.
Multicultural Education	267	(27)
Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures	267	(10)
Diane Ravitch
The Great Multicultural Debate	277	(17)
Gary B. Nash
Language Politics	294	(20)
Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism	294	(10)
Geoffrey Nunberg
English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America	304	(10)
Donaldo Macedo
Self-Segregation on College Campuses	314	(7)
Degree of Separation at Yale	314	(3)
Peter Beinart
Understanding Self-Segregation on the Campus	317	(4)
Troy Duster
The Debate Over ``Identity Politics''	321	(15)
The Rise of ``Identity Politics''	321	(7)
Todd Gitlin
Identity Politics and Class Struggle	328	(8)
Robin D. G. Kelley
Index	336