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Title: The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's "Racial" Crisis by Orlando Patterson ISBN: 1-887178-97-X Publisher: Perseus Book Group Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A departure from entrenched positions
Comment: Orlando Patterson in a seemingly departure from entrenched positions on both sides of the debate on African American issues chooses a mid ground.It is a collection of essays the first entitled PARADOXES OF INTEGRATION is in my view the best.It has a number of illustrative charts.It states the fact that African Americans indeed have a bipolar distribution with an expanding middle class but also a lower class who have not benefitted much in terms of income since the 60's.He does not throw punches when he talks about problems of drugs,teenage pregnancy,lack of skills that has been also discribed by Julius Wilson as the dissapearance of jobs.He also talks about housing patterns.Other chapters deal with the moral and intellectual crisis of Liberal African American advocay and also conservatives.In these essays he refers to philosophers like Kant,Epictecus.He is critical of both groups.He also debunks the Bell curve and talks about Affirmative action which he believes should continue for now but phased out gradually.My grouses with the book are his solutions in the conclusion do not seem far reaching enough.He also prefers using the term Afro Americans and Euro Americans.The truth is no matter what explanation you provide for the nomenclature you choose the problems remain the same.Also he talks about interracial marrying and census but this is not the main thrust of the book in any way.It is indeed a welcome addition to my growing library.
Rating: 5
Summary: Common-sense moderate view of race relations in America
Comment: Professor Patterson writes eloquently and thoughtfully on the changes made in race relations in the US. He also presents a well-reasoned summary of some of the reasons for the inte-racial friction still remaining in America, as well as a potential template for further change. Patterson is more of a moderate than most writers on this topic; and he also very succintly illustrates why and how each end of the American political spectrum has an interest in maintaining the tone of racial dialogue at its current fever pitch.
Rating: 1
Summary: Is he insane??
Comment: Patterson claims in this text that claims of racism in America are overinflated and that African Americans are doing quite well. While this Harvard sociologist may be doing quite well he has forgotten about the "masses". Patterson argues not only for integration and assimilation, but miscegenation. Is this his idea of "if you can't beat them become them"?
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Title: Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries by Orlando Patterson ISBN: 158243039X Publisher: BasicCivitas Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture by Orlando Patterson ISBN: 0465025323 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: A Country of Strangers : Blacks and Whites in America by David K. Shipler ISBN: 0679734546 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Piece of the Pie: Black and White Immigrants Since 1880 by Stanley Lieberson ISBN: 0520043626 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: May, 1981 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Liberal Racism: How Fixating on Race Subverts the American Dream by Jim Sleeper ISBN: 0742522016 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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