LEADER 04670nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910495886303321 005 20230829010903.0 010 $a0-520-35459-1 010 $a0-520-91272-1 010 $a0-585-31999-5 024 7 $a2027/heb33193 035 $a(CKB)111004366703088 035 1 $aMAHL91B973 035 1 $zCUBL91B372 035 $a(MH)001970778-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237243 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12085241 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237243 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10188742 035 $a(PQKB)11527445 035 $a(dli)HEB33193 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000789 035 $a(DE-B1597)648343 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520354593 035 $a(MiU)MIU01100000000000000000789 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366703088 100 $a19910205d1990 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRethinking the American race problem /$fRoy L. Brooks 210 0 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1990 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 256 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-520-07878-0 311 08$a0-520-06886-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-237) and index. 330 $aIf the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold new examination of the seemingly intractable racial problems confronting Americans at the end of the twentieth century. In a wide-ranging and probing study, Brooks calls into question the prevailing wisdom about racism, civil rights legislation, and the composition of the Black community, going on to offer a dramatic new approach to the race problem. In Brooks' mind, civil rights laws-laws targeted at racial discrimination-have not only failed to engender racial equality, but have in fact had a negative effect on the standard of living of many Blacks. Brooks defines the American race problem so as to carefully separate racial oppression from (economic) class oppression and explains how civil rights legislation since the 1960s has hurt Black Americans of every class. He offers a strategy for resolving the country's racial inequities, unique in its attentiveness to class division in Black society, that combines governmental remedies and an unprecedented program of Black self-help.While Brooks argues that the government has the means to resolve the race dilemma, he suggests that it lacks the spirit to do so. Thus, it may be time for Black Americans to come to grips with an unpleasant reality-namely, that they can count on the government only for minimal alleviation, and must take on the larger portion of responsibility for resolving the American race problem themselves.Certain to arouse controversy, Rethinking the American Race Problem offers new understandings of issues often clouded by misconceptions and backward notions. It is an important book for anyone concerned about the current state of race relations in America. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y1975- 606 $aSocial classes$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 606 $aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions$y1975-$zUnited States 606 $aSocial classes$xCivil rights 606 $aAfrican Americans 606 $aGender & Ethnic Studies$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 606 $aEthnic & Race Studies$2HILCC 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSocial classes 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aSocial classes$xCivil rights. 615 0$aAfrican Americans. 615 7$aGender & Ethnic Studies 615 7$aSocial Sciences 615 7$aEthnic & Race Studies 676 $a305.8/96/073 700 $aBrooks$b Roy L$g(Roy Lavon),$f1950-$0256765 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bMH-L 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495886303321 996 $aRethinking the American race problem$92865082 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress