San Antonio College Library

Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty? Is inequality a necessary evil that's the best way available to motivate economic action and increase total output? Can we retain a meaningful democracy even when...

"Everything seemed to be going the Phillies' way. Up by 6 1/2 games with just 12 left to play in the 1964 season, they appeared to have clinched their first pennant in more than a decade. Outfielder Johnny Callison narrowly missed being the National League MVP. Third baseman Richie Allen was Rookie of the Year." "But the "Fightin' Phils" didn't make it to the postseason - they lost 10 straight and finished a game behind the St. Louis Cardinals. Besides...

"Feagin and Cobas provide the first in-depth examination of the everyday racism faced by middle-class Latinos. Based on a national survey, we learn how a diverse group of talented Latinos--Mexican Americans, Puerto Rican Americans, Cuban Americans, and others--respond to and cope with the commonplace white racial framing and discriminatory practices. Drawing on extensive interviewing, the authors address the recurring discrimination of ordinary whites...

Page 212 incorrectly identifies the names of the first five black students to enroll at Southwest Texas State. The five black women who enrolled in February 1963 were Dana Jean Smith, Georgia Hoodye, Gloria Odoms, Helen Jackson, and Mabeleen Washington.

"Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in American sports. This collection of essays shows that for many African Americans it was the world of athletics that first opened an avenue to equality and democratic involvement." "Race and Sport showcases African Americans as key figures making football, baseball, basketball, and boxing internationally...

"Growing Up White is for everyone who wants to know more about our schools, our community, our country, and ourselves. Julie Landsman takes the reader on an inventory of her life, pulling from events and scenes a set of lessons learned. She honestly and unflinchingly discloses the privileges she has experienced as a white person and connects those to her presence in city classrooms where she taught for more than twenty-five years."--Jacket

James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginal perspective-a black man during segregation and the Civil Rights era, a homosexual at a time when tolerance toward gays was not common-Baldwin has fascinated readers for over half a century. Yet Baldwin's critics have tended to separate his weighty,...