This new edition brings fully up-to-date a book widely praised for its clear and objective presentation of changes in American racial attitudes during the second half of the twentieth …
Although the opinions of whites on issues of race and inequality have been examined in depth, the perceptions of blacks about these issues have been largely ignored. This book is …
Throughout this impressive and controversial account of the fight against job discrimination in the United States, Paul Burstein poses searching questions. Why did Congress adopt …
RB Freeman, RA Gordon, D Bell, RE Hall - Brookings papers on economic …, 1973 - JSTOR
THE ECONOMIC STATUS OF BLACK AMERICANS has changed greatly over the past two decades. In some aspects of market position-years of school completed, occupational …
JR Kluegel, ER Smith - Social Forces, 1983 - academic.oup.com
In this paper we examine the effects of economic self-interest, racial affect, and stratification beliefs on attitudes toward affirmative action programs held by whites. Using data from a …
TF Pettigrew - The Annals of the American Academy of …, 1979 - journals.sagepub.com
Five major trends in contemporary American race relations are specified and discussed:(1) the discontinuities of social change, with uneven progress within and across institutions;(2) …
The responsiveness of 13 institutions to increased black enrollments is examined in this book. Focus is on the impacts of minority enrollments on the institutions--what kinds of …
It is a powerful story: the relationship between the 1960s New Left and organized labor was summed up by hardhats confronting students and others over US involvement in Vietnam …