America's urban crisis and the advent of color-blind politics : education, incarceration, segregation, and the future of U.S. multiracial democracy

America's urban crisis and the advent of color-blind politics : education, incarceration, segregation, and the future of U.S. multiracial democracy /

Over 40 years ago the historic Kerner Commission Report declared that America was undergoing an urban crisis whose effects were disproportionately felt by underclass populations. Explores the persistence of this crisis today, despite public beliefs that America has become a post-racial nation after...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Ivery, Curtis L., Bassett, Joshua A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011
Subjects:
Educational equalization.
Discrimination in education.
Imprisonment.
imprisonment.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Color blind ideology. Color-blindness, racism, and multiracial democracy / Michael Omi
  • "Difference," emiseration, and America's urban crisis / Houston Baker
  • Sure, we're all just one big happy family / Benjamin DeMott
  • Immigration, education, and the media / Maria Hinojosa
  • Incarcerated and disappeared in the land of the free / Trinh Minh-ha
  • Mass incarceration and urban crisis. Mass incarceration, civil death, and the new racial domain / Manning Marable
  • Mass incarceration, race, and criminal justice policy / Marc Mauer
  • Racial profiling and imprisonment of the mentally ill / Bob Herbert
  • Case of Jonathan Magbie / Colbert I. King
  • Segregation and the urban crisis. Race and residential segregation in Detroit / John Powell, John Telford
  • Health care as a Civil Rights issue / Alvin F. Poussaint
  • Call for multicultural dialogues / James J. Zogby
  • American education : still separate, still unequal / Arthur Levine
  • Education and the urban crisis. Toward a paradigm shift in our concept of education / Grace Lee Boggs
  • Writing and multiracial education / Nell Irvin Painter
  • Police in schools : can a law enforcement orientation be reconciled with an educational mission? / Johanna Wald, Lisa Thurau
  • Pursuing the promise of brown in the twenty-first century / Erica Frankenberg
  • Multiracial democracy and the urban crisis. In our lifetime / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Making every vote count / Lani Guinier
  • Segregation by race, segregation from opportunity, and the subversion of multiracial democracy in Detroit / Andrew Grant-Thomas
  • How we are white / Gary Howard
  • Toward solutions to the urban crisis.

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