In The Washington Post, Julius Lester praised Richard Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race as free of cant and ideology. ... an excellent starting place for the national discussion about race we so desperately need. The New York Times has hailed Delgado as a pi...

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1. Verfasser:	Delgado, Richard
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York : New York University Press, ©1996.
Schriftenreihe:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Schlagworte:	African Americans > Civil rights. Affirmative action programs > United States. Noirs américains > Droits. Programmes d'action positive > États-Unis. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies. Affirmative action programs African Americans > Civil rights Race relations Race relations > Forecasting United States > Race relations. United States > Race relations > Forecasting. États-Unis > Relations raciales. États-Unis > Relations raciales > Prévision. United States
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Zusammenfassung:	In The Washington Post, Julius Lester praised Richard Delgado's The Rodrigo Chronicles: Conversations about America and Race as free of cant and ideology. ... an excellent starting place for the national discussion about race we so desperately need. The New York Times has hailed Delgado as a pioneer in the study of race and law, and the Los Angeles Times has compared his storytelling style to Plato's Dialogues. In The Coming Race War?, Delgado turns his attention to the American racial landscape in the wake of the mid-term elections in 1994. Our political and racial topography has been radically altered. Affirmative action is being rolled back, immigrants continue to be targeted as the source of economic woes, and race is increasingly downplayed as a source of the nation's problems. Legal obstacles to racial equality have long been removed, we are told, so what's the problem? And yet, the plight of the urban poor grows worse. The number of young black men in prison continues to exceed those in college. Informal racial privilege remains entrenched and systemic. Where, asks Delgado in this new volume, will this lead? Enlisting his fictional counterpart, Rodrigo Crenshaw, to untangle the complexities of America's racial future, Delgado explores merit and affirmative action; the nature of empathy and, more commonly, false empathy; and the limitations of legal change. Warning of the dangers of depriving the underprivileged of all hope and opportunity, Delgado gives us a dark future in which an indignant white America casts aside, once and for all, the spirit of the civil rights movement, with disastrous results.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xviii, 198 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-198).
ISBN:	0585317011 9780585317014 0814718779 9780814718773 9780814744284 0814744281