Andrew Hacker

Two Nations

Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal

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Produktbeschreibung

Providing a fresh look at society's most enduring division, this new edition cogently demonstrates where race relations are today and why race will play a pivotal role in shaping America in the 21st century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scribner
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780743238243
• ISBN-10: 0743238249
• Artikelnr.: 21207834

Autorenporträt

Andrew Hacker is a professor of political science at Queens College in New York City. His books include Downfall: The Demise of a President and His Party, Two Nations, Higher Education?, and The Math Myth. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, Time, and Fortune, among other periodicals. Mr. Hacker lives in New York City.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface
PART I
1. Dividing American Society
2. Race and Racism: Inferiority or Equality?
3. Being Black in America
4. White Responses: Right and Left, Guilt and Sex
PART II
5. Parents and Children: Do the Races Really Differ?
6. The Racial Income Gap: How Much Is Due to Bias?
7. Equity in Employment: Qualifications and Quotas
8. Education: Ethnicity and Achievement
9. Segregated Schooling: Voluntary and Imposed
10. What's Best for Black Children?
11. Crime: The Role Race Plays
12. The Politics of Race
Statistical Sources
Quoted and Cited Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
Copyright © 1992, 1995, 2003 by Andrew Hacker