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Race and Ethnicity Book Catalog [SORT BY TITLE] [SORT BY AUTHOR] [SORT BY DATE] |
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 | One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups by Herman Badillo Sentinel, January 2007 "As the nation's first Puerto Rican-born U.S. congressman, the trailblazing Badillo supported bilingual education and other government programs he thought would help the Hispanic community. But Badillo came to see that the real path to prosperity, political unity, and the American mainstream is self-reliance, not big government. Badillo's solution to this problem relies on traditional values: hard work, education, and achievement. His lessons are important not only for Hispanics but for every American." AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America by John H. McWhorter Dutton and Gotham Books, February 2006 McWhorter traces the decline of the black inner city since the Civil Rights movement and rejects the usual assumptions about black history and culture. In Winning the Race, McWhorter offers a compelling new vision for the future of black America. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American by Tamar Jacoby Basic Books, 2004 Jacoby includes distinguished social scientists, prize-winning journalists and fiction-writers—thinkers like Nathan Glazer, Herbert Gans, John McWhorter, Michael Barone, Pete Hamill and Stanley Crouch in her look at the melting pot in America, and what it means to be an American in the age of globalization. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Authentically Black: Essays for the Black Silent Majority by John H. McWhorter Gotham Books, January 2003 Addressing subjects as diverse as affirmative action, blacks on television, and the reparations movement, John McWhorter identifies and assesses black America’s tendency to publicly emphasize a victimhood it privately acknowledges to be a thing of the past. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom Simon & Schuster, 2003 Two distinguished experts on race in America offer a sober appraisal of the racial gap in education—and show how it can be overcome. No Excuses highlights inner-city schools across the country that are models of superb education and thus beacons of hope. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Beyond the Color Line: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom Hoover Institution Press, January 2002 A collection of 25 essays by some of America’s leading thinkers. Addressing such issues as racial preferences, education, and crime, these essays maintain that old civil-rights strategies cannot solve today’s problems. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | The Burden of Bad Ideas by Heather Mac Donald Ivan R. Dee, October 2000 A wide-ranging, scathing attack on elite opinion, particularly as it deals with issues involving race and poverty. The intellectual orthodoxy that insists on viewing the poor as oppressed victims, Mac Donald shows, is far more oppressive than anything it seeks to condemn. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration by Tamar Jacoby The Free Press, June 1998 A thoroughly researched history of race relations in three American cities since the civil-rights era. This book captures the heartbreaking collapse of the early ideals of integration and color-blindness. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible by Stephan Thernstrom, Abigail Thernstrom Simon & Schuster, September 1997 A monumental study of race in America over the last fifty years. This book highlights unheralded truths about the socioeconomic, educational, and cultural condition of African-Americans. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities by George L. Kelling, Catherine M. Coles The Free Press, November 1996 Newly released in paperback, this work outlines the policing strategies that have led to dramatic reductions in crime rates in New York and other major cities. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Assimilation, American Style by Peter D. Salins Basic Books, 1996 A brilliant examination of the American melting pot. In this work, Salins argues that the integration of immigrants and ethnic groups into mainstream American society has formed the foundation of this nation's success and that the goal of cultural assimilation remains vital to the American future. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education by Seymour Fliegel Random House, August 1993 The inspirational account of how a unique school-choice program helped turn around the lives of some of New York City's most disadvantaged youths. In Miracle in East Harlem, Fliegel, who developed District Four's school-choice program, documents how educational innovation can overcome the greatest challenges confronting urban education, from poverty to bureaucracy. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON |
 | The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass by Myron Magnet William Morrow, March 1993 Cited by George W. Bush as the second-most-important book he had ever read—right after the Bible. The Dream and the Nightmare argues that today's underclass owes its existence to the cultural revolution of the Sixties, a revolution that was effected by the prosperous but suffered by the poor. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation by Linda Chavez Basic Books, October 1991 The untold story of Hispanic progress in America. Hispanics, Chavez argues, are following the path blazed by earlier immigrants and entering the American mainstream–a trajectory threatened not by poverty or racism, but by misguided programs like affirmative action and bilingual education which actively hinder Hispanic assimilation into American society. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 by Charles Murray Basic Books, September 1984 The book that has indelibly shaped the debate over welfare in America. In this ground-breaking work, Murray argues that the massive social programs of the 1960's have not only failed to improve conditions for poor Americans, but have perpetuated and intensified the disadvantages that the Great Society set out to eradicate. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON | READ MORE |
 | The State Against Blacks by Walter Williams McGraw-Hill, October 1982 A critical look at race in America. Williams argues that while bigotry and discrimination may be a partial explanation for the condition of many blacks in America, they are not the only, or the most important, reasons why many blacks are behind. Instead, he shows, a myriad of local, state, and federal laws systematically impede economic and social progress for minorities in America. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON |
 | Markets and Minorities by Thomas Sowell Basic Books, September 1981 One of the classic works on the economic and social problems confronting minorities. In this volume, Sowell shatters myths about the impact of discrimination in the lives of minorities, and shows that the market can significantly improve the economic condition of American minorities. AVAILABLE AT AMAZON |
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