Race in America: The Struggle for Equality

by Herbert Hill

University of Wisconsin Press, 1993
Paper: 978-0-299-13424-2
Library of Congress Classification E185.615.R2125 1993
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.800973

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Race in America is a multidisciplinary analysis of race and injustice by some of the nation’s foremost scholar-activists who helped shape the course of the struggle for civil rights during the recent past. These essays provide a historical retrospective, an assessment of where we are now, and an outline of possibilities for the future.
    The major controversial issues in race relations, in the past and in the present, such as affirmative action, educational segregation, racial practices of labor unions, legal strategies for protest movements, the persistence of racism in American institutions, and the sources of resistance to change are discussed at length by major authorities in their respective fields.
    Many of the most important events in recent American history come alive in these pages as the strategies and programs, the victories and defeats of the civil rights movement are rigorously examined. A unique aspect of the book is that the human experience of active participants in this rich history is evoked through personal and often poignant accounts, such as those of Kenneth B. Clark, who in a memorable autobiographical essay describes a long life devoted to the pursuit of racial justice, and Patricia J. Williams, who relates the contemporary struggles of African American women to the historical context of slavery and its aftermath.
    As no other book can, this collection provides the basis for the critical insights and historical perspectives that are essential for an understanding of the central issue still confronting American society: race and racism.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Herbert Hill is professor of Afro-American studies and industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Formerly national labor director of the NAACP, he is the author of Black Labor and the American Legal System, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, as well as other books. He has presented testimony before Congressional committees and frequently appears as expert witness in federal court litigation involving employment discrimination.

James E. Jones Jr. is the Nathan P. Feinsinger Professor of Labor Law and former director of the Industrial Relations Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was associate solicitor of labor, Division of Labor Relations and Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Labor. He is the coauthor of Discrimination in Employment and has contributed many articles on labor law, industrial relations, and civil rights to law journals and other publications.

REVIEWS

Winner of a Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Intolerance & Human Rights

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

Preface

Part I.
The Past Is Prologue: Historical Perspective

1.
Racial Progress and Retreat: A Personal Memoir

Clark, Kenneth B.

2.
Centuries of Black Protest: Its Significance for America and the World

Morris, Aldon

Part II.
Brown and After: The Legal Struggle

3.
Remembrances of Racism Past: Getting Beyond the Civil Rights Decline

Bell, Derrick

4.
Thirty-Five Years Later: New Perspectives on Brown

Carter, Robert L.

5.
Civil Rights after Brown: “The Stormy Road We Trod”

Jones, Nathaniel R.

6.
Three Strategies for Implementing Brown Anew

Liebman, James S.

7.
Educational and Racial Equity Toward the Twenty-First Century–A Case Experiment in Connecticut

Brittain, John C.

8.
Brown v. Board of Education

Chambers, Julius L.

Part III.
The Persistence of Discrimination

9.
The Common Destiny of Blacks and Whites: Observations about the Social and Economic Status of the Races

Farley, Reynolds

10.
School Desegregation after Two Generations: Race, Schools, and Opportunity in Urban Society

Orfield, Gary

11.
Black Workers, Organized Labor, and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act: Legislative History and Litigation Record

Hill, Herbert

Part IV.
Perspectives: Past and Future

12.
The Rise and Fall of Affirmative Action

Jones, Jr., James E.

13.
Race Relations as Social Process: Sociology's Resistance to a Civil Rights Orientation

Lyman, Stanford M.

14.
A Tale of Two Decades: Race and Class in the 1880s and the 1980s

Takaki, Ronald

15.
Racism and Our Future

Williams, Eddie N.
Morris, Milton D.

16.
Fetal Fictions: An Exploration of Property Archetypes in Racial and Gendered Contexts

Williams, Patricia J.

Contributors

Index

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