San Antonio College Library

In Forced Justice, David J. Armor explores the benefits and drawbacks of voluntary and involuntary desegregation plans, especially those in communities with "magnet" schools. He finds that voluntary plans, which let parents decide which school program is best for their children, are just as effective in attaining long-term desegregation as mandatory busing, and that these plans generate far greater community support. Armor concludes by proposing a...

Hundreds of black & white photographs chronicling the civil rights movement. Captions and accompanying text by Lorraine Hansberry, American playwright. Photographers include Danny Lyon, Don Charles, Norris McNamara, Frank Dandridge and others.

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) In 1958, a few weeks after Richard and Mildred Loving got married in Washington, DC, they were arrested one night in their Virginia bedroom for the crime of interracial marriage. Sentenced to one year in jail, the couple was told the sentence would be suspended if they left the state and did not return for 25 years. The Lovings moved to Washington, DC but in 1963 they went back to court to challenge...

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ..."--A passage by Charles Dickens published a century ago - describes how African Americans today feel about their chances for advancement. Since the 1960s, socioeconomic reports have examined the difficulties blacks have endured in their attempts to enter into the mainstream. For example, in 1965, then U.S. Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel P. Moynihan released the "Moynihan Report" stating...

In Shades of Freedom, Higginbotham provides a magisterial account of the interaction between law and racial oppression in America from colonial times to the present, demonstrating how the one agent that was entrusted to guarantee equal justice under the law - the judicial system - instead, more often played a dominant role in enforcing the inferior position of blacks, and, on some occasions, eradicated racial injustice. The precept of racial inferiority...

American myths about national character tend to overshadow the historical realities. This book examines the origins of racialism in America to show that the belief in white American superiority was firmly ensconced in the nation's ideology by 1850. The author chronicles the beginnings and growth of an ideology stressing race, basic stock, and attributes in the blood. He traces how this ideology shifted from the more benign views of the Founding Fathers,...

Bram Dijkstra's new book, ten years in work, is a stunning inquiry into the idea of woman as seductress: how, in many areas of twentieth-century high and popular culture, the female came to be portrayed as a regressive, primitive force whose sexuality could destroy the social order, undermining the supremacy of the white male - and shows the devastating historical effects of this portrayal. Dijkstra begins his analysis with the 1915 silent film A...

"While the public debate over the existence of racism and affirmative action continues to rage, preeminent evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves forever changes how we will think about race. Graves argues that science cannot account for the radical categories used to classify people, and goes a step further to describe racism as an unintended consequence of evolution. He offers creative, innovative ways to bring true equality to America." "The Race...