Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide - Hardcover

Smith, Robert C.; Seltzer, Richard

 
9780742500242: Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0742500241 ISBN 13: 9780742500242
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide is a detailed study of some of the most racially divisive issues America has encountered in the past decade. Smith and Seltzer employ more than forty surveys to explore race-based public opinion differences on high-profile controversies including the Rodney King and O. J. Simpson cases; the arrest, trial, jailing, and subsequent reelection of Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry; the Million Man March and Louis Farrakhan; and the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill controversy. The authors also look at race-based opinion differences on the inner-city crack cocaine epidemic and the spread of AIDS among the American populace.

The divisions in opinion between blacks and whites on these controversies are explained in terms of the distinctive historical and cultural experiences of the different races and the gaps, gulfs, and chasms in their contemporary social and economic conditions. While also noting significant commonalities in opinion across the color line, the book focuses on racial differences and their sources, and in a concluding chapter advances suggestions as to how the nation might overcome its racial divisions. This innovative study is a unique, rich, contextualized, dynamic analysis of race opinion, unlike anything else in literature.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University. He is the author of many books, including African American Leadership (coauthored with Ronald W. Walters); John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, and the Politics of Ethnic Incorporation and Avoidance; and Ronald W. Walters and the Fight for Black Power, 1969-2010, all published by SUNY Press.

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Verlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0742500241
ISBN 13 
9780742500242
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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