Kenneth B. Bedell

Realizing the Civil Rights Dream (eBook, ePUB)

Diagnosing and Treating American Racism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains why America can realize the civil rights dream in the 21st century-if U.S. citizens take actions as individuals as well as work together for equality. It has been more than 53 years since Martin Luther King Jr. made his "I Have a Dream" speech. Why has the United States still not been able to make King's dream a reality after a half a century of effort and progress? Is there still hope of full participation for all in America? In Realizing the Civil Rights Dream: Diagnosing and Treating American Racism, author Kenneth B. Bedell proposes a civil rights dream that grows out of American history and speaks to the 21st-century reality. He makes the case that by adopting a larger perspective of the role of racism in preserving U.S. social, cultural, economic, and political institutions and practices, Americans can understand why it has been so difficult to fulfill the promises of the 1960s civil rights dream. Bedell describes and applies sociological theories that serve to explain why racism is still prevalent in the United States and identifies the steps that are necessary to overcome racism. The book concludes with proposals for ways to apply social science to realize the civil rights dream and examples of how individuals can take action to make a difference.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216136729
• Artikelnr.: 68167751

Autorenporträt

Kenneth B. Bedell, PhD, served as a senior advisor in the Department of Education in the Obama administration. He is the author of Different Ships-Same Boat: A North American Perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures Foreword by Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. SECTION
1: DEFINING THE DREAM 1. Introduction 2. Whose Idea Was This? 3. Tearing
Down Barriers 4. The Dream of Full Participation 5. White Cultural
Dominance Is Not Working SECTION 2: SOCIAL SCIENCE OF RACISM 6. The Power
of Paradigms 7. Everyday Racism 8. Institutional Racism 9. Disciplinary
Institutions 10. A Framework to Overcome Racism SECTION 3: REALIZING THE
DREAM 11. Being Antiracist in Everyday Life 12. We All Have Stories 13.
Examples of Institutional Antiracism 14. Working Together 15. Afterword
2016 Acknowledgments Glossary Notes Index