Disintegration
The Splintering of Black America
New York : Doubleday, [2010]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xi, 254 pages ; 22 cm
Explains how years of desegregation and affirmative action have led to the revelation of four distinct African American groups who reflect unique political views and circumstances, in a report that also illuminates crucial modern debates on race and class.
Contents:
"Black America" doesn't live here anymore -- When we were one -- Parting of the ways -- The mainstream : a double life -- The abandoned : no way out -- The transcendent : where none have gone before -- The emergent (part 1) : coming to America -- The emergent (part 2) : how Black is Black? -- Urgency, focus and sacrifice -- We know who we are, but who will we be?
Subjects:
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Group identity -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Group identity -- United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Social mobility -- United States.
United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9780385526548
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SOCIAL SCI Race Rob | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-245) and index.