By Robert Jensen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The invitation to write this commentary asked for reaction to the “sadly dour view” on integration of Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown. Yet I don’t find the authors’ view sad or dour; their conclusion that racial integration is an illusion is honest and hopeful. Like the authors, it seems to me that the only hope of … [Read more...] about “The Morally Lazy White Middle Class” by Robert Jensen (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“A Wake-Up Call for Liberals” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Richard D. Kahlenberg (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown make a compelling case that integration remains an illusion, and for that reason, the book is a powerful antidote to the happy talk of conservatives who tend to emphasize only the progress that we have made. But the authors’ sobering evidence on the state of race … [Read more...] about “A Wake-Up Call for Liberals” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
“By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race” by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
By Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) There is a conventional wisdom about the 1960s that most writers and commentators follow. The story line is this: we came close, very close, to solving America’s racial dilemma completely in the mid-sixties, until a number of factors stalled our progress and undermined the consensus. … [Read more...] about “By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race” by Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
Symposium: Is Integration Possible? (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) A discussion of whether integration is really possible in the United States. Part One This arguably is the biggest dilemma facing America's democracy. Recently, Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown, professors at American University's School of Communication - one African-American, one white, believing that "integration is … [Read more...] about Symposium: Is Integration Possible? (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
Symposium: President Clinton’s Race Initiative Part Four – DEAD END (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) A continuation of commentaries on the report from the Advisory Board to President Clinton\'s Race Initiative.January/February 1999 issue of Poverty & Race View Part One of this Symposium View Part Two of this Symposium View Part Three of this Symposium This is Round 2 of the symposium we began in the Nov/Dec 1998 … [Read more...] about Symposium: President Clinton’s Race Initiative Part Four – DEAD END (November-December 1999 P&R Issue)
