African Americans and the Public Agenda
The Paradoxes of Public Policy

Edited by:

Cedric Herring - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Other Titles in:
Ethnic Studies (General)

March 1997 | 304 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

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Key issues surrounding race and public policy in North America are examined in this book. For example, who truly represents African Americans in the American political process? Why does there seem to be increased white resistance to programmes that seek to redress equality if white racism appears to be declining? And why do so many programmes which are intended to tackle inequality seem instead to exacerbate it? The contributors to this perceptive and timely volume shed light on these apparent paradoxes.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

William Julius Wilson

Preface

Cedric Herring

African Americans, the Public Agenda, and the Paradoxes of Public Policy

A Focus on the Controversies Surrounding Affirmative Action

PART TWO: CHALLENGES TO LEADERSHIP AND REPRESENTATION IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY

Yvonne Scruggs

Cross-Cutting Black Issues Affecting the Changing Role of Government

Michael I J Bennett, Cedric Herring, and Douglas Gills

Political Consolidation or American Apartheid? Some Political and Economic Consequences of Black Empowerment

Jesse L Jackson

Balanced Opportunity

PART THREE: RACIAL DIFFERENCES IN HEALTH

Rae Banks and Assata Zerai

Policy Context and the Relationship between Maternal Drug Abuse and Infant Mortality

Katrina Bell McDonald

The Psychosocial Dimension of Black Maternal Health

An Intersection of Race, Gender, and Class

PART FOUR: RACIAL INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL POLICY

Sharon Collins

Race Up the Corporate Ladder

The Dilemmas and Contradictions of First Wave Black Executives

PART FIVE: CHANGES IN IDEOLOGY AND CULTURAL MYTHS

Steven Rosenthal

Affirm Equality; Oppose Racist Scapegoating

Myths and Realities of Affirmative Action

Charles Jarmon

Conservative Religious and Ideological Thought

Sources and Consequences for Public Policy for the Poor

Juan Battle and Michael Bennett

African American Families and Public Policy

The Legacy of the Moynihan Report

PART SIX: RACE AND EDUCATIONAL SEGREGATION

Gail Thomas

Race Relations and Campus Climate for Minority Students

Implications for Higher Education Desegregation

Kerry Rockquemore

Afrocentric Schools

The Effects of Black Male Academics on Academic Achievement

PART SEVEN: CRIME, UNEQUAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND PUNISHMENT

Rae Banks

Race, Representation, and the Drug Policy Agenda

Verna Keith and Garry L Rolison

Race, Gender, and the Timing of Justice

Age at First Arrest and First Incarceration for African American Women

Darnell F Hawkins

Which Way Toward Equality? Dilemmas and Paradoxes in Public Policies Affecting Crime and Punishment

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