The Black Progress Question: Explaining the African American Predicament (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations) - Softcover

Burman, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803950616 ISBN 13: 9780803950610

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1994

Synopsis

The recent Los Angeles race riots exposed the depth and persistence of the race problem in the United States and symbolized the despair and hopelessness felt in North America's cities. The key question remains: Are African-Americans making any progress towards integration into mainstream society?

The Black Progress Question examines the popular responses to this issue and finds them insufficient. For too long, the analysis of black progress has been met with an unwarrented optimism. Stephen Burman presents an alternative approach, sobering in its realism, which will dispel beliefs that a solution to this problem is close at hand.

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From the Back Cover

The African American experience in the U.S. has enriched American history in countless ways. The overriding theme of that experience, however, is one of exploitation and discrimination. How long will this go on? Are African Americans making progress toward complete incorporation into American society? The author of this fascinating volume addresses these issues, examines others' accounts, and offers an alternative approach to explaining the "African American predicament". Burman's analysis is a sobering one: No simple answer is available to the problem at hand. Some of the other issues the author addresses are the liberal tradition and Black progress, race and politics (with special emphasis on Atlanta, Georgia), Black nationalism, and Marxism and capitalism and how they relate to Black progress.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0803950616
• ISBN 13: 9780803950610
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256