كتاب
From power to prejudice: the rise of racial individualism in midcentury America
| العنوان: | From power to prejudice: the rise of racial individualism in midcentury America |
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| المؤلفون: | Gordon, Leah N., author. |
| سنة النشر: | 2015 |
| وصف مادي: | xiv, 257 pages ; 24 cm |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Prejudices -- United States -- History -- 20th century., Prejudices., Race discrimination., Race relations., History. |
| جغرافية الموضوع: | United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century., United States. |
| Time: | 1900 - 1999 |
| الوصف: | Americans believe strongly in the socially transformative power of education, and the idea that we can challenge racial injustice by reducing white prejudice has long been a core component of this faith. How did we get here? In this first-rate intellectual history, Leah N. Gordon Jumps into this and other big questions about race, power, and social justice. To answer these questions, From Power to Prejudice examines American academia - both black and white - in the 1940s and '50s. Gordon presents four competing visions of the race problem and documents how an individualistic paradigm, which presented white attitudes as the source of racial injustice, gained traction. A number of factors, Gordon shows, explain racial individualism's postwar influence: individuals were easier to measure than social forces; psychology was well funded; studying political economy was difficult amid McCarthyism; and individualism was useful in legal attacks on segregation. Highlighting vigorous midcentury debate over the meanings of racial justice and equality, From Power to Prejudice reveals how one particular vision of social justice won out among many contenders. |
| ملاحظة حول المحتويات: | Attitudes, structures, and "levers of change" : the social science of prejudice and race relations -- "Data and not trouble" : the Rockefeller Foundation and the social science of race relations -- The individual and the "general situation" : defining the race problem at the University of Chicago's Committee on Education, Training, and Research in Race Relations -- The mature individual or the mature society : social theory, social action, and the race problem at Fisk University's Race Relations Institutes -- "Education for racial understanding" and the meanings of integration in Howard University's Journal of Negro education -- "To inoculate Americans against the virus of hate" : brotherhood, the war on intolerance, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews. |
| Original Identifier: | (PromptCat)99963808030 ocn890360395 |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Book |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-0-226-23844-9 0-226-23844-X |
| حقوق: | This record is part of 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, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. and the Library of Congress. |
| ملاحظات: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-250) and index. |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edshlc.014392579.2 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset |
Full Text Finder | ردمك: | 9780226238449 022623844X |
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