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Race and Reconciliation in America

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 2009

Summary

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all. While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years_including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State_it's clear that our journey to a post-racial era is far from complete. In virtually every measurable category, whether income levels, job opportunities, access to health care, life expectancy, high school diplomas, incarceration rates, do not fare well compared to their white counterparts. The dialogue entitled Race and Reconciliation in America was convened to provide a forum for a long overdue, open, honest, and constructive discussion among people of good will about the need for the American people to truly grasp the depth of past misdeeds, why the legacies of past oppression persist, and how we can achieve a more fair and just society embodied in the American Dream.



Bibliographic data

Edition
1/2009
Copyright Year
2009
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-3550-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-3552-5
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
214
Product Type
Monograph

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. List of Participants No access
    3. Editors’ Note No access
  1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
  2. 1 The Arc of History and How We Got Here No access Pages 9 - 30
  3. 2 Justice: Is It Color Blind? No access Pages 31 - 56
  4. 3 Education: What Are We Teaching? What Are We Learning? Are We Failing? No access Pages 57 - 82
  5. 4 The Economics of Race No access Pages 83 - 108
  6. 5 The Media and Film No access Pages 109 - 142
  7. 6 Religion and Spirituality No access Pages 143 - 168
  8. 7 The Next Generation Speaks No access Pages 169 - 200
  9. Conclusion No access Pages 201 - 202
  10. Race and Reconciliation in America Mission and Cofounders No access Pages 203 - 204
  11. Index No access Pages 205 - 214

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