By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race - Softcover

Diggs-Brown, Barbara; Steinhorn, Leonard

 
9780452278738: By the Color of Our Skin: The Illusion of Integration and the Reality of Race
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0452278732 ISBN 13: 9780452278738
Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2000

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While signs of racial progress are everywhere, the reality is that America is hardly more integrated than it was before the civil rights movement. Beyond the rhetoric of politicians, the media, and the prevalent symbols of integration lies a very different reality: 70 percent of black children attend predominantly black schools; and an Hispanic or Asian American with a third grade education is more likely to live in an integrated neighborhood than is a black with a Ph.D. Fueled by these startling statistics, By the Color of Our Skin argues that integration does not exist now; that it never had a chance to exist in the past; and that it will never exist in the future.Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown would themselves like to see integration become a reality but find--through polls, statistics, interviews, and anecdotes--that the illusion of integration is more damaging than useful because it keeps society from having an honest dialogue about the problem of race. By the Color of Our Skin explodes powerful myths and outlines a new vision of race in America.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Barbara Diggs-Brown is an associate professor of public communication at the American University School of Communication. She writes and lectures on cultural diversity in the media and has served as a media and press adviser for political campaigns, public officials, and advocacy groups. She lives outside of Washington, D.C.

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Verlag
Penguin Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0452278732
ISBN 13 
9780452278738
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
322
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