Integration or Separation?: A Strategy for Racial Equality by Roy L. Brooks PDF

By Roy L. Brooks

ISBN-10: 0674132955

ISBN-13: 9780674132955

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ISBN-13: 9780674456457

ISBN-10: 9996547086

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built-in in precept, segregated in truth: is that this the legacy of 50 years of ''progress'' in American racial coverage? Is there desire for a lot higher? Roy L. Brooks, a wonderful professor of legislations and a author on concerns of race and civil rights, says with frank readability what few will admit--integration hasn't labored and doubtless by no means will. both, he casts doubt at the resolution that many African-Americans and mainstream whites have recommended: overall separation of the races. This booklet provides Brooks's procedure for a center method among the more and more unworkable extremes of integration and separation.

restricted separation, the strategy Brooks proposes, shifts the focal point of civil rights coverage from the gang to the person. outlined as cultural and monetary integration inside African-American society, this coverage may advertise separate education, housing, and company agencies the place had to bolster the self-sufficiency of the neighborhood, with out trammeling the racial pursuits of people inside of or outdoors of the crowd, and with out endangering the belief of a shared Americanness. yet all of the whereas Brooks envisions African-American public colleges, companies, and groups redesigned to serve the enlightened self-interest of the person. Unwilling to renounce solely on racial integration, he argues that constrained separation may perhaps certainly bring about better race family and, finally, to fit integration.

This booklet appears to be like at an important time, as Republicans dismantle earlier civil rights rules and Democrats look for new ones. With its replacement technique and invaluable coverage rules for bringing person African-Americans into mainstream society as first class voters, Integration or Separation? should still impression debate and policymaking around the spectra of race, type, and political persuasion.

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Racial Separation Racial separation is destructive when it subordinates or stigmatizes a racial group either by law (as under de jure segregation during Jim Crow) or in fact (such as de facto segregation in public schools or housing). But there 42 / RAe I A LIN T E G RAT ION is a form of separation that neither subordinates nor stigmatizes. It merely creates conditions under which members of a particular racial group can eventually become part of mainstream society. Its long-term goal is individual dignity and empowerment, or racial equality.

First, it has not reached parity with that of white students, as it did for several years in the 1970s. 4 Second, the increase in the enrollment rate was largely pushed up by African American women, who greatly outnumber the men in higher education. In 1965, when figures were first collected, 148,000 African American women versus 126,000 African American men attended college. Today the gender gap has grown substantially. Over 300,000 more African American women than men attended college in 1992, 865,000 versus 537,000.

122 Indeed, in the Minneapolis public school my daughter attended, poor African American children were bused in from the northern part of the city. The socioeconomic mismatch was readily apparent not only in academic readiness and performance, but also in the way teachers treated the students. I stood outside a classroom one day, horrified, as a popular white teacher who had been with the school for many years berated in front of the entire class an unkempt 5-year-old boy from north Minneapolis just because he could not recite his street address.

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