Race and Ethnicity in the United States

This volume brings together some of the most incisive recent scholarship on race, ethnicity and public policy.

Stephen Steinberg is Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and a Professor of Sociology at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York. His previous books include The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in America and Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy which received the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship. In addition to his academic work, he has published articles in The Nation, Reconstruction, and New Politics.

Contributors

viii

Acknowledgments

xi

Note to the Reader

xv

PART I ANTI-RACIST PUBLIC POLICY IN THE POST--CIVIL RIGHTS ERA

1

(178)

Introduction to Part I: Two Steps Forward and One Step Backward

3

(5)

The Eclipse of Anti-Racist Public Policy

8

(47)

The Kerner Commission Report in Retrospect

8

(29)

John Charles Boger

The Liberal Retreat from Race

37

(18)

Stephen Steinberg

The National Conversation on Race

55

(9)

Democracy's Conversation

55

(5)

Lani Guinier

Yackety-Yak About Race

60

(4)

Adolph Reed, Jr.

The Racial Division of Labor

64

(20)

Occupational Apartheid and the Origins of Affirmative Action

64

(10)

Stephen Steinberg

Bursting the Bubble: The Failure of Black Progress

74

(10)

Sharon M. Collins

The Race Versus Class Debate

84

(16)

The Case for Class-Based Affirmative Action

84

(8)

Richard D. Kahlenberg

Should Public Policy Be Class Conscious Rather than Color Conscious?

92

(8)

Amy Gutmann

The Future of Affirmative Action

100

(14)

When Preferences Disappear

100

(5)

Peter Schrag

Is Affirmative Action Doomed?

105

(9)

Ronald Dworkin

Should the Ghetto Be ``Dismantled''?

114

(13)

The Future of the Ghetto

114

(13)

Douglas S. Massey

Nancy A. Denton

The Complexities of a Public Housing Community

127

(8)

Larry Bennett

Adolph Reed, Jr.

School Desegregation

135

(26)

Turning Back to Segregation

135

(19)

Gary Orfield

Integration Dilemmas in a Racist Culture

154

(7)

Doris Y. Wilkinson

Racial Districting

161

(18)

Groups, Representation, and Race Conscious Districting

161

(11)

Lani Guinier

The Future of Black Representation

172

(7)

Carol M. Swain

PART II THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY

179

(157)

Introduction to Part II: The One and the Many

181

(5)

The Meaning of American Nationality

186

(25)

What Does It Mean To Be an ``American''?

186

(11)

Michael Walzer

The Ethno-Racial Pentagon

197

(14)

David Hollinger

The Melting Pot: Myth or Reality?

211

(23)

Assimilation's Quiet Tide

211

(12)

Richard D. Alba

Are the Children of Today's Immigrants Making It?

223

(11)

Joel Perlmann

Roger Waldinger

The Immigration Debate

234

(33)

The Immigrant Contribution to the Revitalization of Cities

234

(19)

Thomas Muller

Immigration Policy and the U. S. Economy: An Institutional Perspective

253

(14)

Vernon M. Briggs, Jr.

Multicultural Education

267

(27)

Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures

267

(10)

Diane Ravitch

The Great Multicultural Debate

277

(17)

Gary B. Nash

Language Politics

294

(20)

Lingo Jingo: English-Only and the New Nativism

294

(10)

Geoffrey Nunberg

English Only: The Tongue-Tying of America

304

(10)

Donaldo Macedo

Self-Segregation on College Campuses

314

(7)

Degree of Separation at Yale

314

(3)

Peter Beinart

Understanding Self-Segregation on the Campus

317

(4)

Troy Duster

The Debate Over ``Identity Politics''

321

(15)

The Rise of ``Identity Politics''

321

(7)

Todd Gitlin

Identity Politics and Class Struggle

328

(8)

Robin D. G. Kelley

Index

336

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