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Beschreibung
Providing a fresh look at society's most enduring division, this new edition cogently demonstrates where race relations are today and why race will play a pivotal role in shaping America in the 21st century.
Providing a fresh look at society's most enduring division, this new edition cogently demonstrates where race relations are today and why race will play a pivotal role in shaping America in the 21st century.
Über den Autor
Andrew Hacker is a professor of political science at Queens College in New York City. His books include Downfall: The Demise of a President and His Party, Two Nations, Higher Education?, and The Math Myth. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Time, and Fortune, among other periodicals. Mr. Hacker lives in New York City.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents

Preface

PART I

1. Dividing American Society

2. Race and Racism: Inferiority or Equality?

3. Being Black in America

4. White Responses: Right and Left, Guilt and Sex

PART II

5. Parents and Children: Do the Races Really Differ?

6. The Racial Income Gap: How Much Is Due to Bias?

7. Equity in Employment: Qualifications and Quotas

8. Education: Ethnicity and Achievement

9. Segregated Schooling: Voluntary and Imposed

10. What's Best for Black Children?

11. Crime: The Role Race Plays

12. The Politics of Race

Statistical Sources

Quoted and Cited Sources

Acknowledgments
Index

Copyright © 1992, 1995, 2003 by Andrew Hacker
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Importe, Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780743238243
ISBN-10: 0743238249
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hacker, Andrew
Hersteller: Scribner
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Ansata, ein Label der Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe GmbH, Neumarkter Str. 28, D-81673 München, kundenservice@penguinrandomhouse.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew Hacker
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.05.2003
Gewicht: 0,412 kg
Artikel-ID: 102659569