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Title: The Ordeal of Integration (First Printing) Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis
Publisher: Civitas Books, Washington D. C.
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1887178619
ISBN 13: 9781887178617
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket

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In this provocative new book, sociologist Orlando Patterson takes on the intractable dilemma of race in late 20th-century America. Using current demographic research, Patterson exposes common misperceptions about the lives and experiences of black and white Americans, misperceptions that are hampering the success of integration.

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Patterson (sociology, Harvard), the author of the prize-winning Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (LJ 7/91), draws on current social science research to investigate the "paradoxes" of race relations in the United States. One is that black living standards are generally rising even as the news media uniformly depicts blacks as poor inner-city residents. Another is that race relations are said to be worsening at a time when increasing numbers of respondents tell pollsters that they have friends and co-workers from other races. Yes, some blacks are part of an "underclass," says Patterson, and a sizable minority of whites remain steeped in racist thought. But it is "irresponsible to overplay" the grim news. "An unholy alliance of conservative, law-and-order hard-liners, sensationalist media producers, and Afro-American race leaders all have vested interests in exaggerating the degree to which the underclass has infected both the broader Afro-American population and the nation at large." Critical of both the mainstream Civil Rights movement and the conservative counter-establishment, Patterson adopts a maverick position that combines support for affirmative action and an activist government with a rejection of various forms of nationalism or democratic socialism. Recommended for larger libraries.?Kent Worcester, Marymount Manhattan Coll., New York
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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